Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Anniversary of Norfolk police officer’s murder

Around 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.

When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.

The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.

Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.

Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.

Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.

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Serial robbery suspects arrested in Virginia Beach

On Monday, Virginia Beach police responded to a Crime Solvers tip on the location of a suspect in a recent string of robberies, which led them to a motel on Bonney Road. The SWAT team executed a warrant on one of the rooms and took four suspects into custody.

Those arrested were:

-Matthew Turner, 2, charged with 13 felony counts of robbery

-Olivia Weir, 23, charged with eight felony counts of robbery

-Mytisha Warmack, 22, charged with three felony counts of robbery

-Kyle Smith, 20, charged with seven felony counts of robbery

The suspects are accused of committing three robberies to individuals, as well as holding-up two Albano Cleaners and Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack between January 5-20.

According to police, one of the accused was recognized when surveillance footage of the robbery at Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack was aired on a local newscast.

Virginia Beach has been hit with a rash of robberies of late, with more than 35 occurring in the city since New Years Day.

Read more about the growth of violent crime in Virginia Beach: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/gangland-virginia-beach-va

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Serial robbery suspects arrested in Virginia Beach

On Monday, Virginia Beach police responded to a Crime Solvers tip on the location of a suspect in a recent string of robberies, which led them to a motel on Bonney Road. The SWAT team executed a warrant on one of the rooms and took four suspects into custody.

Those arrested were:

-Matthew Turner, 2, charged with 13 felony counts of robbery

-Olivia Weir, 23, charged with eight felony counts of robbery

-Mytisha Warmack, 22, charged with three felony counts of robbery

-Kyle Smith, 20, charged with seven felony counts of robbery

The suspects are accused of committing three robberies to individuals, as well as holding-up two Albano Cleaners and Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack between January 5-20.

According to police, one of the accused was recognized when surveillance footage of the robbery at Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack was aired on a local newscast.

Virginia Beach has been hit with a rash of robberies of late, with more than 35 occurring in the city since New Years Day.

Read more about the growth of violent crime in Virginia Beach: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/gangland-virginia-beach-va

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Virginia State Senate kills “Castle Doctrine" bill (again)

On Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.”

The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.”

For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.

The committee voted as follows:

Against:

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

For:

Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)

Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders

 

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Anniversary of Norfolk police officer’s murder

Around 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.

When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.

The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.

Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.

Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.

Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.

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Anniversary of Norfolk police officer’s murder

Around 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.

When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.

The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.

Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.

Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.

Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.

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Virginia State Senate kills “Castle Doctrine" bill (again)

On Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.”

The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.”

For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.

The committee voted as follows:

Against:

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

For:

Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)

Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders

 

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Anniversary of Norfolk police officer’s murder

Around 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.

When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.

The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.

Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.

Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.

Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Virginia State Senate kills “Castle Doctrine" bill (again)

On Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.”

The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.”

For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.

The committee voted as follows:

Against:

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

For:

Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)

Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders

 

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Virginia State Senate kills “Castle Doctrine" bill (again)

On Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.”

The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.”

For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.

The committee voted as follows:

Against:

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

For:

Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)

Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders

 

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Anniversary of Norfolk police officer’s murder

Around 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.

When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.

The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.

Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.

Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.

Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Virginia State Senate kills “Castle Doctrine" bill (again)

On Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.”

The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.”

For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.

The committee voted as follows:

Against:

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

For:

Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)

Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders

 

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Serial burglar still at-large

On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.

All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.

If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Petersburg man who set boss on fire gets 8 years behind bars

On Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.

On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.

As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.

Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.

Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.”

Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.

Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.

Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.”

The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.

Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.”

His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.

 

 

 

 

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Weapons stolen from Chesapeake police officer’s car

On Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.

According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.

All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.

However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.”

Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.

Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Child robbed at gunpoint in Richmond

On Monday afternoon, a 9-year-old boy was robbed at gunpoint as he sat on the stairs outside his family’s apartment. The man stole the boy’s handheld Playstation he received for Christmas.

The robbery occurred in the Wynnwood Apartments on Nelson Street, in Richmond’s East End.

The suspect remains at large.

Because the family fears for their safety, the boy’s name is being withheld.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-804-780-1000.

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Williamsburg native Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty to sex crimes

On Thursday, former NFL star Lawrence Taylor, 51, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, both misdemeanors. While Taylor will not receive any jail time, he will have to register as a sex offender. He will also serve six years on probation.

In June 2010, Taylor was indicted by a grand jury just outside New York City on charges of rape, criminal sexual act, endangering the welfare of a child, patronizing a prostitute, and sexual abuse.

If he had been convicted of those charges, Taylor could have spent the rest of his life in prison.

The plea deal which keeps Taylor out of prison was accepted largely because of his assistance with human trafficking investigations since his arrest. Prosecutor, Arthur Ferraro, told reporters outside the courtroom on Thursday that Taylor "was of assistance in the field of human trafficking in several jurisdictions and with federal authorities."

On May 6, Taylor was arrested at a Montebello, NY, Holiday Inn, accused of paying a 16-year-old prostitute $300 for sex.

According to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe, the Bronx runaway told detectives that she had been threatened and physically assaulted. She was allegedly brought to Taylor’s hotel room by a pimp.

Taylor, who initially denied the allegations, grew up in Williamsburg, Va., and played in the NFL from1981-1993, spending his entire pro career with the New York Giants.

The Hall of Fame linebacker is no stranger to the law. In the 1990s, Taylor was jailed twice for purchasing drugs from undercover police officers. Last year, he was arrested in Miami for leaving the scene of an accident.

 

 

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Petersburg man who set boss on fire gets 8 years behind bars

On Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.

On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.

As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.

Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.

Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.”

Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.

Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.

Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.”

The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.

Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.”

His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.

 

 

 

 

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Weapons stolen from Chesapeake police officer’s car

On Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.

According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.

All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.

However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.”

Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.

Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Weapons stolen from Chesapeake police officer’s car

On Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.

According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.

All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.

However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.”

Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.

Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Petersburg man who set boss on fire gets 8 years behind bars

On Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.

On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.

As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.

Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.

Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.”

Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.

Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.

Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.”

The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.

Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.”

His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.

 

 

 

 

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Weapons stolen from Chesapeake police officer’s car

On Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.

According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.

All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.

However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.”

Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.

Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Weapons stolen from Chesapeake police officer’s car

On Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.

According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.

All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.

However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.”

Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.

Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Body of Hampton native, Bush official, found in Delaware landfill

On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.

Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.

Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday. 

Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations. 

During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.

Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.

The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.

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Michael Vick was never actually punished for his brutal crimes

In September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.

Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.

Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.

So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,” he actually has not.

The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.

                                                        

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Elderly man assaulted leaving hospital

On Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.

Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.

The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.

According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.

Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.

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Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

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Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

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Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

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Washington Redskins player charged with DUI

In the early morning hours on Monday, Washington Redskins defensive lineman Joe Louis Joseph, 25, was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in Loudoun County, Va. he was booked into the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center at 3:00 a.m.

Joseph was released on Monday afternoon.

Vincent DiBenedetto, of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, told the Loudoun Times-Mirror:  “It appears that our office responded to a possible accidentâ€"a vehicle off Ryan Rd. at the intersection with Brambleton Plaza.

While the LCSO did not release Joseph’s blood alcohol level, DiBenedetto did say that it was “obviously over the legal limit.”

 Joseph had just returned from playing the Jacksonville Jaguars which was his first game as an active member of the Redskins.

The DUI is his first.

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Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

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Video reminder of Michael Vick's crimes (disturbing images)

While the National Football League and President Obama may be willing to overlook Michael Vick's brutalization of helpless dogs, many people cannot.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs, a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

Several of the dogs seized on Vick's property were beagles, which because of their non-agressive nature are commonly used as 'bait dogs.' The helpless dogs are tied-up and torn apart by the pit bulls being trained to attack and kill other pit bulls.

Watch the video below and remember these dogs the next time you hear Vick being praised by a sports analyst, or even by the President...

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Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

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Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

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Washington Redskins player charged with DUI

In the early morning hours on Monday, Washington Redskins defensive lineman Joe Louis Joseph, 25, was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in Loudoun County, Va. he was booked into the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center at 3:00 a.m.

Joseph was released on Monday afternoon.

Vincent DiBenedetto, of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, told the Loudoun Times-Mirror:  “It appears that our office responded to a possible accidentâ€"a vehicle off Ryan Rd. at the intersection with Brambleton Plaza.

While the LCSO did not release Joseph’s blood alcohol level, DiBenedetto did say that it was “obviously over the legal limit.”

 Joseph had just returned from playing the Jacksonville Jaguars which was his first game as an active member of the Redskins.

The DUI is his first.

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Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

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Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

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Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

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Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

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Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

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