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Hampton Roads Regional Jail closes down
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Hampton Roads Regional Jail closes down

Virginia has one less jail. As of yesterday, Hampton Roads Regional Jail is officially closed. The facility at 2690 Elmhurst Lane in Portsmouth opened in 1998, and before closing, it was used to house inmates from Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth. HHRJ's cells have been empty since March 20. Inmates were moved to their home jurisdictions. The HHRJ Board voted to pay off a $14 million bond, and the April 1 closure, which was announced in November, marked the final day for the jail, Kelly Curry, executive assistant at HHRJ told Wavy 10 Norfolk. HHRJ had its share of news coverage “for all the wrong reasons,” reminded Fox News 43’s Katie Collett. That included legal issues, like a 2-year investigation by the DOJ in 2018, which found that jail violate...
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Newport News woman has fatal crash at scene of another crash
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Newport News woman has fatal crash at scene of another crash

A 25-year-old Newport News woman died after crashing at the scene of a crash on I-64 in James City County. Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sunday, Virginia State Police said called started coming in reporting an older model Toyota was driving the wrong way in the I-64 eastbound lanes and was near the 227 mile marker. By the time troopers located the Toyota, it had run off the road and hit a guardrail. VSP reported that the unnamed driver was intoxicated. Fire and rescue crews and a VDOT Safety Service Patroller blocked the right travel lane near the scene. VSP stated that there were cones set up and the VDOT vehicle had the arrow board illuminated pointing traffic to the left. Scene of fatal crash in James City County (Photo: Virginia State Police) Yet, a 2017 Toyota Corolla crashe...
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Woodbridge man charged for death of Newport News man in Fairfax
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Woodbridge man charged for death of Newport News man in Fairfax

Virginia State have announced charges against a Woodbridge man accused of killing a pedestrian in a fatal crash on I-495 west in Fairfax on Sunday, March 10. At around 3:30 a.m., Gregory B,. Bruington, Jr., a 30-year-old Newport News man, was on the left shoulder of the highway at the 175-mile marker changing the tire on a 2017 VW Golf. Carlos Lisandro Nunez-Morales was driving a 2003 Dodge Ram when he ran off the road to the left and hit Bruington, VSP reported. Bruington died at the scene. There was a passenger in the Golf, 24-year-old Hailey Frazier, who was injured despite wearing a seatbelt at the time, according to VSP. Nunez-Morales was not wearing a seatbelt and also suffered injuries that VSP described as minor. Nunez-Morales, who is 26, is facing charges for DUI...
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Trooper crashes into witnesses of another crash in Portsmouth
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Trooper crashes into witnesses of another crash in Portsmouth

The decision of a witness at a crash scene resulted in him being involved in a crash with a Virginia State trooper, VSP reported. On Sunday, March 10, shortly before 1 a.m. an unnamed trooper was responding to a call involving an overturned vehicle crash on I-464 west near Military Highway and Freeman Ave. in Portsmouth. According to VSP, the trooper’s lights and siren was activated. As the trooper entered onto I-464 from the Military Highway on-ramp, a 2018 Honda Accord was stopped in the travel lane, and the trooper rear-ended it, VSP reported. C. Dixon, the driver of that Honda, and his female passenger reportedly witnessed the crash the trooper was coming to investigate. Dixon decided to engage in citizen traffic control and park his vehicle in the travel lane to prevent...
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Investigation underway for fatal single-vehicle crash in York County
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Investigation underway for fatal single-vehicle crash in York County

Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal, single-vehicle crash in York County that occurred on Friday afternoon. At around 4:30 p.m. VSP troopers responded to the 3000 block of Goodwin Neck Road, which is north of Back Creek Park. Based on preliminary investigations, VSP determined that 30-year-old Aaron Eli Hoopingarner of Yorktown. was traveling northbound on Goodwin Neck Road. He got into the southbound lanes to attempt to pass two vehicles but he ran off the road and hit a traffic sign. After hitting the sign, VSP said it appears the man tried to regain control but he overcorrected. He ran off the road again, hit a tree, and was killed upon impact. VSP reported that  Hoopingarner was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the vehicle. The man’s speed was a c...
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Suspect in Brooklyn crimes killed in Virginia Beach police chase
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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...
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VSP asking for tips after man shot on I-664 in Hampton
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VSP asking for tips after man shot on I-664 in Hampton

A 51-year-old man was shot while driving on I-664 in Hampton on February 20, and Virginia State Police is seeking witnesses. Based of the details that have emerged from the preliminary investigation, VSP said the victim was driving a black 2019 Toyota Yaris heading northbound in the far left lane. He was "a few car lengths" behind a school bus. VSP did not disclose which school’s bus it was. The victim reportedly told VSP that a black sedan attempted to merge into his lane to bypass the bus but wasn’t successful. That sedan went around the bus, pulled up beside his Yaris, and he heard a loud pop. VSP said when the man realized he had been shot, he pulled over and called 911. The call came in at 6:23 a.m., VSP said. The victim said he saw the suspect vehicle exit towards I-64 We...
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Before sentencing for daytime shooting in Newport News, 19-year-old cites ‘spiritual growth’
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Before sentencing for daytime shooting in Newport News, 19-year-old cites ‘spiritual growth’

Hoping for leniency after shooting a man during a weed robbery, 19-year-old Brycen Scott Beal of Newport News, wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson stating he was “reading books, “studying the Bible for spiritual growth” and wanted to get married. Beal pled guilty to charges linked to a broad daylight shooting and was sentenced on February 13, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) announced. Robbery & shooting Court documents show Beal admitted that, about midday on February 21, 2023, he arranged to meet D.M in the parking lot of Patriots Crossing Apartment Complex in Newport News to buy marijuana. But instead of making a purchase, Beal reached into D.M.’s vehicle and snatched a backpack that had about 6.5 ounces of weed. ...
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VA Beach ‘leader’ of meth ring confesses, takes a plea, gets 30 years
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VA Beach ‘leader’ of meth ring confesses, takes a plea, gets 30 years

This article contains a link that will provide financial benefits for the Watchful Eye if a purchase is made. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) describes 47-year-old Malik Dillard of Virginia Beach as a “leader” of a multi-year, multi-state meth distribution conspiracy. Federal court documents show Dillard aka “Mayo” admitted to being involved in the meth trade from at least Sept 2021 to February 2023 along with co-conspirators Sebastian Balthazar and Richard Olask-Finn. Dillard admitted he was receiving wholesale quantities of drugs from out-of-state sources and received, stored, and processed meth and other controlled substances at residences in Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Norfolk. He also conceded that he supplied meth to at least five p...
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Portsmouth’s new camera leads to arrest of man wanted in 4 cities
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Portsmouth’s new camera leads to arrest of man wanted in 4 cities

Portsmouth Police Department reported that one of its new cameras caught a drug deal, and one of the people in that deal was wanted in four cities plus wanted by the Department of Corrections. Detectives in the Special Investigations Unit reportedly saw 35-year-old Keeshawn Faltz “delivering narcotics to a street level drug dealer,” who wasn’t identified. According PPD, the detectives discovered Faltz was wanted and put an alert into the Flock LPR system for the vehicle he was driving. On February 1, numerous units of PPD launched an operation “targeting street level narcotics distribution and wanted subjects.” Officers saw the Flock alert for Faltz’ vehicle, and PPD said that vehicle was spotted downtown at a hotel in the 300 block of Effingham Street. No one was inside so officers ...
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