Crime

Following the robbery of a PNC Bank on Thursday morning, police were called to a residential area near Lindendale Road and Mapledale Avenue in nearby Dale City for a report of a car fire. Police found the car on a grassy field near power lines, a site regularly used as a soccer fields for team play.

Police used K9 units and a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol helicopter to search for the suspect who abandoned the vehicle but were unable to find anyone. The car was reported stolen in Prince William County on Nov. 29, said police.

Update Friday 3 p.m. 

Virginia State Police is continuing its investigation into yesterdays shooting on Interstate 95 southbound at the 116 mile marker. Senior Trooper Michael H. Hamer remains at Mary Washington Hospital where he is recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg.

A Virginia State Trooper has been transported by ambulance to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg with serious non-life threatening injuries. A suspect has been flown to Mary Washington Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Both suffered gunshot wounds.

The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Shoot Team is on-scene and investigating the incident.

Woodbridge, Va. — That police helicopter Dale City residents reported seeing this afternoon could have very well been looking for the man police say robbed a nearby PNC Bank.

The PNC Bank at 12650 Apollo Drive, near Hoadly Road and Prince William Parkway, before 11 a.m. and robbed the bank of an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

Arrested:

Rodney Leon WARD, 25, of 1754 Ann Scarlet Ct in Woodbridge, Charged with possession with intent to distribute [PWID] a schedule I or II narcotic [cocaine], PWID marijuana, PWID methamphetamine, driving while intoxicated and refusal. Court date unavailable, held on a $5,000 secured bond at the time of the arrest.

Stafford County, Va. — Investigators in Stafford released a composite sketch of the man they say tried to rape a woman late last month.

The attack happened Nov. 27 in a wooded area off Shasta Place in the England Run neighborhood of Stafford County, said sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.

Arrested:

Daniel Martin CLAY, 39, of 14040 Matthews Dr in Woodbridge

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia; and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after sentencing by United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema.

Pierre was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 8, 2011. According to court documents, Pierre was the office manager and office administrator for First Call Home Health, a home health care business that provided home health aides and private duty nursing care to individuals so they may remain at home rather than in a hospital or nursing facility. First Call received payment for its home health services provided to Medicaid-eligible individuals through the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), which is responsible for paying medical service producers for care and services received by Medicaid recipients in Virginia.

The 23-year-old victim was riding in the area of Prince William Parkway and Liberia Avenue at 7:42 p.m. Wednesday when a car pulled up and the occupants inside began telling racial slurs at the rider, said police.

Two of the three occupants inside the car got out and assaulted the man, said police. The rider suffered minor injuries and the attackers fled as soon as police arrived.