Woodbridge, Va. –– A 15-year-old girl told police she was inappropriately touched Thursday by a man who offered her a ride to school.
The victim was walking to Freedom High School, at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road in Woodbridge, when a man approached her and said he would give her a ride, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Update Saturday Noon
Investigators now say the death of 18-year-old Wyatt Campbell is now being investigated as a homicide.
Lake Ridge, Va. –– Police said one man resisted arrest Tuesday, got into a scuffle with police and was later found to have narcotics on him.
Officers stopped a car in the area of Plymouth Court and Mayflower Drive, off Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge, about 7:52 p.m.
Prince William County, Va. –– A Prince William County Government employee was arrested Monday on charges of assault and battery, police said.
Police say the 47-year-old male victim from Manassas said he and the female suspect were involved in an argument which escalated at 6:27 p.m. Monday, in the 8100 block of Porter Ridge Lane in the Prince William County section of Manassas.
The 32-year-old victim was found by police in Alexandria at 10:24 p.m. Oct. 4, at the Huntington Station on Metro’s Yellow line, suffering a gunshot wound to his lower body, police said. (more…)
Dale City, Va. –– One man faces charges after another man was shot in the foot Friday, police say.
Lavon Poynter, 31, is charged with malicious wounding, maliciously shooting into an occupied dwelling and with use of a firearm in commission of a felony, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
North Stafford, Va. –– One man is behind bars today after an early-morning shooting at a North Stafford commuter lot.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the lot off Staffordboro Boulevard and Va. 610 just before 1 a.m. Friday, after a man told a 911 dispatcher that the husband of the woman he was seeing shot at him.
Dale City, Va. –– A man was shot in the foot this morning in Dale City.
Two men had been arguing when the shooting occurred, and then one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other in the foot, according to News & Messenger.
Lake Ridge, Va. –– A man with a baseball bat who police say climbed through the drive through window of a Dunkin Donuts, a shooting into a home and a home break in kept officers in Woodbridge busy this week.
At 1:55 a.m. Thursday, an employee at the doughnut restaurant on Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge told police he saw a man with a walk up to the window.
The county’s sheriff’s department so far has arrested 13 juveniles, ranging in age from 14 to 17-years-old, and six adults, on charges stemming from robberies, assaults by mob, brandishing firearms and gang participation, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The crackdown comes as sheriff’s deputies have noted an increase in gang activity over the past year. In response to the increase, a special sheriff’s office unit was created to deal with the problem. (more…)
