Lorton, Va. –– A woman from Lorton was abducted Wednesday and driven to Woodbridge, where she narrowly escaped her captor, police said.
It happened at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when the 20-year-old victim was walking along U.S. 1 south, near Woodside Lane in the Gunston area of Fairfax County.
OWL VFD Chief Jim McAllister said Pottier was operating his own vehicle and was not on duty, and when he was arrested, did not identify himself to police as a volunteer firefighter.
Nathan Collier Pottier, 25, of Vienna, was stopped at 11 p.m. Monday in the area of Hedges Run Drive and Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge.
Two men at 9 p.m. walked into the electronics store at 418 Garrisonville Road (Va. 610), showed a knife and taser and demanded the two male employees, ages 20 and 25, go the manager’s office.
The robbers threatened to kill both employees if they did not comply with their demands, and one the attackers used a taser to assault one of the victims while the other was kicked, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Lake Ridge, Va. –– An arrest has been made in case of a series of burglaries in Lake Ridge.
Sorto-Reyes was killed after being struck by a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee as he was trying to cross U.S. 1 in the area of Janna Lee Avenue.
Police said the victim was not using a crosswalk. No charges have been filed. (more…)
Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called H.H. Poole Middle School at 800 Eustace Drive in North Stafford on Dec. 29, after school administrators found seven buses had been vandalized.
Vandals used black spray paint and painted the driver, passenger and back sides of the parked buses, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
North Stafford, Va. –– Stafford sheriff authorities say a Caroline County man exposed himself to a deputy.
The 38-year-old victim was coming out of a Safeway at 5980 Kingstowne Center in Fairfax County when a man approached her and then pointed a gun.
He demanded her purse, keys and cell phone, got them, and drove off her in her 1993 Toyota Camry. (more…)
A county sheriff’s deputy at 2:50 p.m. Dec. 27 tried to stop a driver on Centreport Parkway.
The driver of the car he was speeding, ignored the deputy, and then got onto the highway and sped off in the northbound direction.
Dale City, Va. –– A girl who was shot in the chest last week with a pellet gun remains hospitalized in critical condition. Now police remind residents BB and pellet guns are not toys.
