Crime

Stafford County authorities say a sheriff’s deputy was sitting in a lot off Warrenton Road (U.S. 17) in the southern portion of the county when a 19-year-old man walked up to him in tears and said he had just been held at gunpoint, robbed of his cell phone and then let out of the a car.

The deputy learned the two men had been at a party in Stafford County, and that while at the party the suspect stepped outside to make a phone call. When the victim went outside to where the suspect was to retrieve something from the car, the suspect ordered him into the car and sped off, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men they say were involved in the stabbing, one of them last night at a Days Inn hotel and another Thursday night at a home in the Olde Forge neighborhood, on Sledgehammer Drive.

About 2 p.m. Tuesday, three men drove themselves to a hospital after they were stabbed in broad daylight during a football game on the street.

The stabbings took place in Stafford County’s Olde Forge neighborhood off U.S. 17 in the southern portion of the county.

About 2 p.m. Tuesday, three teenagers were stabbed with what appeared to be a hunting knife while playing a football game near a playground.

North Stafford, Va. –– Perhaps he was thirsty, or it was because he never got enough calcium as a child, or maybe he had a thing for dressing like a farm animal.

Whatever the reason Stafford sheriff’s authorities say a man donned a cow costume and not walked, but crawled into a Walmart store on Garrisonville Road (Va. 610) in North Stafford at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday.