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18-year-old leads police chase, hits 3 vehicles in Fairfax

16Mar

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18-year-old leads police chase, hits 3 vehicles in Fairfax

Virginia State Police announced an investigation into an 18-year-old who was reportedly involved in a police pursuit and a three-vehicle crash in Fairfax. The incident started around 11:19 p.m on Thursday, March 14, when, according to VSP, they attempted to stop a speeding grey Honda Odyssey heading westbound on I-495. When police initially attempted the stop, the Odyssey was approaching I-95 South. The minivan reportedly refused to stop, and the pursuit initiated. According to VSP, amid the chase, the Odyssey struck an unspecified vehicle near the exit for Route 1 but didn’t stop. With the pursuit still underway, the Odyssey crashed into a Toyota 4-Runner and then into a tractor-trailer near the exit for Route 123. The minivan “came to a rest on its side,” VSP reported. ...

Dead fetus found in a pond in Leesburg, VA

14Mar

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Dead fetus found in a pond in Leesburg, VA

Leesburg Police have launched an investigation and are urging the public to reach out with any information regarding a deceased “late-term fetus” found in a pond. According to LPD, the body was discovered in the pond behind Park Gate Drive SE by a community member around 4:30 p.m. on March 11. That pond is nestled in a residential community and circled by a trail. Houses run the length along both sides of the pond, and Stryker, a medical technologies and healthcare company, sits at one corner. Emergency services promptly responded the report of the body, the area was secured, and the fetus was removed and transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia for an autopsy. "This is a deeply tragic situation," said Leesburg Police Chief Thea Pirnat. "We urge anyon...

Virginia’s traffic-related death toll rises amid numerous fatal crashes within days

14Mar

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Virginia’s traffic-related death toll rises amid numerous fatal crashes within days

Fatal crashes in Virginia are stacking up, and reports continue rolling in of the numerous deadly incidents that occurred in recent days. As previously reported, on Sunday, two pedestrians were killed in separate incidents in Fairfax near the same exit. Brunswick truck crash VSP reported that, on Friday, around 9:30 a.m. 52-year-old John Oliver Harrison of Lawrenceville was headed north on Rt. 46 in Brunswick County. He was near Woodley Ave. in a tractor-trailer loaded with lumber. Harrison reportedly ran off the road and struck a group of trees. The crash demolished the cab of the truck, and VSP said Harrison was killed upon impact. VSP said there’s nothing to suggest that speed or alcohol was a factor. Multiple incidents in VA Beach Last Saturday, around 2:...

Blackwater man arrested in Stafford allegedly had saw, hammer, & gun

9Mar

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Blackwater man arrested in Stafford allegedly had saw, hammer, & gun

After a series of alleged early morning incidents, including a manhunt, Stafford County Sheriff’s Office has filed a list of charges against a 26-year-old Blackwater man who reportedly claimed to be landscaping. At around 6:30 a.m., on March 4, a resident on Musselman Rd. heard a noise in his home and found that a man had entered. Upon seeing the homeowner he ran, SCSO reported. Not long afterward, a woman was parked in her driveway on Musselman Rd. when the same man allegedly approached her vehicle with a chainsaw in one hand and a hammer in the other. He “grasped her door handle and brought the hammer up in a motion to swing it toward the car window,” SCSO said, but the woman drove drove off. SCSO said additional calls continued to come in reporting the man going up and ringing ...

Virginia school board member charged for Jan. 6 at the Capitol

7Mar

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Virginia school board member charged for Jan. 6 at the Capitol

A Frederick County School Board Member has been hit with federal charges for activities in Washington DC at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The allegations outlined in the criminal complaint against Miles B. Adkins, in many cases, are corroborated by self-incriminating evidence he shared via Facebook. For example, the FBI was able to determine that he planned to go to Washington DC because he discussed the trip ahead of time with a friend and offered that individual a ride, Adkins’ Facebook messages show. And authorities know that he not only went to DC but also to the Capitol because, in addition to open-source video and closed circuit video, they have pictures and video he sent via social media while in the building, the complaint notes. An FBI Special Agent who inv...

Twice-extradited Maryland man sentenced on child predator charges in VA

6Mar

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Twice-extradited Maryland man sentenced on child predator charges in VA

John Raff, a 42-year-old Perryville, MD man, was extradited to Virginia twice in connection with a case involving him soliciting someone he believed to be a minor. This month, he was finally sentenced. Raff’s charges date back a decade. Amid an investigation by Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (NOVA-DC ICAC), in 2014, Raff was arrested in Maryland and extradited to Virginia. After that arrest, Raff posted bond and left the country. According to Virginia State Police, he went to Egypt, which resulted led to a multi-agency effort to get him back on U.S. soil. The Rockingham Commonwealth’s Attorney's Office and Virginia State Police along with the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, INTERPOL, the U.S. Department of Justice...

Suspect in Brooklyn crimes killed in Virginia Beach police chase

3Mar

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Suspect in Brooklyn crimes killed in Virginia Beach police chase

The man killed last week in a Virginia Beach crash during a police chase was from New York. He was driving a stolen vehicle and was listed as a suspect in a violent crime that occurred the day he died, VSP announced. The police chase began last Friday, February 23, just shy of 8:30 p.m. State Police attempted to stop a 2024 black Chevrolet pickup truck for reckless driving because the vehicle was reportedly going 92 mph in a 55 mph zone. The truck was heading south on Rt. 13 in Exmore, a town on the Eastern Shore, and refused to stop, VSP stated. Instead, the truck initiated a police chase and Northampton County officer joined VSP to assist. VSP said in the midst of the pursuit, it was determined that the truck was stolen out of New York. When the chase got to the Chesapeake Ba...

Feds snag 88 lbs. of hash at Dulles amid focus on marijuana shipments

29Feb

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Feds snag 88 lbs. of hash at Dulles amid focus on marijuana shipments

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) say they’ve uncovered “an increasing trend” of U.S. marijuana growers and retailers shipping products to Europe and Africa where high-quality weed earns them several times the U.S. price. Because of that, CBP is ramping up efforts to intercept those shipments. And it was “during one of these outbound inspections targeted on seizing marijuana,” that CBP officers found nearly 88 pounds of hashish in checked bags at Dulles, the agency reported. On Monday, officers retrieved 28 vacuum-sealed bags of brown bricks in three suitcases that were being loaded onto a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The material field tested as positive for hashish, CBP reported. The traveler associated with those bags was Johnathan Edward Perez, a California resident, an...

Inmate dies in custody in Alexandria, VA

28Feb

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Inmate dies in custody in Alexandria, VA

Authorities in Alexandria have reportedly launched an investigation into the death of an inmate at William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center. At around 4 a.m., on February 26, an unnamed deputy reportedly found Ahntais Jacoby Lucas, a 39-year-old Fairfax man, “unresponsive in his cell alone and experiencing an apparent medical emergency,” a statement from Alexandria said. A deputy immediately called for assistance from the jail’s medical staff, and together, they attempted life-saving measures. Medics from the Alexandria Fire Department responded to the scene, and they also attempted treatment, but Lucas was pronounced dead at 4:42 a.m., Alexandria’s statement added. Lucas had been in custody since August 20, 2023. The William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center where this in...

72 pounds of weed found at Dulles Airport, 2 men arrested

24Feb

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72 pounds of weed found at Dulles Airport, 2 men arrested

A large marijuana shipment that was reportedly destined for Paris won’t be arriving because authorities seized the 68 bags of vacuum-sealed buds at Dulles International Airport and arrested the men accused of transporting it. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported that the large bags of weed, which weighed over 72 pounds, were found in three checked suitcases that were being loaded onto a plane headed to Keflavik, Iceland. Las Vegas residents Kaliq Talib McCallister, 33, and Christian Tyler Knight, 28, were identified as the travelers responsible for those suitcases. According to CBP, their plan was to pass through Iceland to get Paris. The material in the vacuum-sealed bags was field-tested, and the results were positive for marijuana, CBP reported. The 72 pounds of marijuana...