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Déjà Vu: Virginia Cop's Traffic Stop Takes Familiar Turn Just Four Hours Later Déjà Vu: Virginia Cop's Traffic Stop Takes Familiar Turn Just Four Hours Later
Déjà Vu: Virginia Cop's Traffic Stop Takes Familiar Turn Just Four Hours Later Four hours. Two runners. Three guns. One Virginia cop. What started with a traffic stop around noon on Sunday, Aug. 30 turned into the first of two foot chases Officer Ruggiere would find himself in before his shift was four hours old. The first came in the 400 block of Bridgewater Street in Fredericksburg, where Ruggiere stopped a brown Mercury for a traffic violation, police said. As the officer checked the driver's information, a 17-year-old passenger grabbed a black bag from inside the car and made a run for it. Ruggiere took off after him. The chase ended on Fall Hill Avenue, where …

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Kentucky Man Hauled Hundreds Of Miles To Virginia After Online Trail Leads To Minor: Sheriff Kentucky Man Hauled Hundreds Of Miles To Virginia After Online Trail Leads To Minor: Sheriff
Kentucky Man Hauled Hundreds Of Miles To Virginia After Online Trail Leads To Minor: Sheriff A Kentucky man was taken hundreds of miles from home to face charges in Virginia following a sexual assault investigation involving a minor. Bowling Green resident Cody Chaffin, 29, has been extradited back to the East Coast following a lengthy probe into his interactions online with a minor, according to the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office. In June, detectives received a report of a possible sexual assault involving a minor, and it was later determined that the child had been solicited and exploited online. Most of the contact took place through Tumblr, investigators said. Whi…

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Search For Suspect In Virginia Massage Worker Rapes Ends With Police Pursuit, Sheriff Says Search For Suspect In Virginia Massage Worker Rapes Ends With Police Pursuit, Sheriff Says
Search For Suspect In Virginia Massage Worker Rapes Ends With Police Pursuit, Sheriff Says The search ended with a chase. Cesar Mario Torres Juarez, the Virginia man accused in two rapes involving massage workers nearly six months apart, was captured Friday morning, Sept. 4, following a brief vehicle pursuit, according to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office. The chase began around 7:30 a.m. in Spotsylvania County and ended with the 30-year-old being taken into custody. The arrest came after authorities had been searching for Juarez in connection with attacks reported at massage businesses on the same block of Plank Road. The first was reported on March 12 at a Spotsylvania…

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WATCH: Armed Burglar Caught Scaling Groveton Building To Reach Third-Floor Apartment WATCH: Armed Burglar Caught Scaling Groveton Building To Reach Third-Floor Apartment
Watch: Armed Burglar Caught Scaling Groveton Building To Reach Third-Floor Apartment Recognize him? A man in Northern Virginia did his best Spider-Man impression and scaled a building before brandishing a gun in an apartment, according to police. The Fairfax County Police Department released video on Friday, Sept. 4, of a bold burglar who was caught on camera climbing the side of a Groveton building before a burglary. Shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, officers were called to an apartment in the 3500 block of Robert E. Lee Place when a victim reported that an unknown man broke in and busted out a firearm. The incident remains under investigation in Fair…

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Student Reports Gun At Maryland Elementary School, Sparking Lockdown, Massive Response: Sheriff Student Reports Gun At Maryland Elementary School, Sparking Lockdown, Massive Response: Sheriff
Student Reports Gun At Maryland Elementary School, Sparking Lockdown, Massive Response: Sheriff A report of a gun can change the mood of a school in seconds. That happened Friday morning, Sept. 4, when a student's report of someone apparently carrying a firearm sent a Maryland elementary school into lockdown and brought three law enforcement agencies rushing to the campus. The scare began around 10:30 a.m. at Pinehurst Elementary School in Salisbury, where the student told officials they had seen someone with what appeared to be a gun, according to the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office. Classroom doors were secured. Students and staff were told to stay quiet and in place. Outside, de…

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Maryland Truck Driver Dies After Freightliner Slams Into Wooden Poles, Trees: Police Maryland Truck Driver Dies After Freightliner Slams Into Wooden Poles, Trees: Police
Maryland Truck Driver Dies After Freightliner Slams Into Wooden Poles, Trees: Police A Maryland truck driver's afternoon route ended in a deadly crash. At approximately 3:05 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, Anne Arundel County Police officers were called to Swamp Circle Road near Muddy Creek Road in West River, where a commercial truck had crashed. Investigators say 34-year-old Laurel resident Keith Whitley Haines was driving a 1999 Freightliner FL70 north on Swamp Circle Road when he failed to negotiate a curve. The truck went completely off the right side of the road and struck several wooden poles, police said. It didn't stop there. The Freightliner then traveled back acros…

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Trump Weighs In On Lindsay Clancy Mistrial Trump Weighs In On Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Trump Weighs In On Lindsay Clancy Mistrial President Donald Trump is weighing in on the Lindsay Clancy murder case after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial. In a press conference from the Oval Office, Trump told reporters: "I assume there’s going to be another trial. It’s a terrible situation. Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse. “But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be a mental institution or jail or something. But I guess they’re going to go through another trial. It’s too bad." On Friday, Sept. 4, as deliberations entered the seventh day, the jury informed …

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Labor Day Weekend Starts With A Bang As 70 MPH Winds, Tornadoes Threaten DC, Maryland, Virginia Labor Day Weekend Starts With A Bang As 70 MPH Winds, Tornadoes Threaten DC, Maryland, Virginia
Labor Day Weekend Starts With A Bang As 70 MPH Winds, Tornadoes Threaten DC, Maryland, Virginia Labor Day weekend may start with a bang across Maryland and Virginia. A round of potentially severe thunderstorms is bearing down on the DMV on Friday, Sept. 4, bringing the threat of damaging winds, hail, flash flooding and even a couple of possible tornadoes before conditions begin to improve for the holiday weekend. The National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for much of the region through 9 p.m. on Friday, including parts of Maryland, Virginia and DC. National Weather Service Damaging winds are expected to be the biggest concern as storms drop southeast out of wes…

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Cable Technician Sexually Assaulted 63-Year-Old Inside Virginia Home, Police Say Cable Technician Sexually Assaulted 63-Year-Old Inside Virginia Home, Police Say
Cable Technician Sexually Assaulted 63-Year-Old Inside Virginia Home, Police Say A 63-year-old woman was waiting for a scheduled cable installation. Instead, she was sexually assaulted by the technician in Virginia, police say. Luis Enrique Falconi Revilla, 65, is behind bars following an investigation into an alleged sexual assault in Gainesville earlier this year, according to the Prince William County Police Department. Revilla, a Manassas resident, was taken into custody on Tuesday following the probe into a sexual assault that was reported to have occurred in a home in the 7300 block of Yountville Drive. Police say the woman was inside her home for a scheduled cab…

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Investigators Followed A Foul Smell Into Maryland Woods And Found Something Worse, AG Says Investigators Followed A Foul Smell Into Maryland Woods And Found Something Worse, AG Says
Investigators Followed A Foul Smell Into Maryland Woods And Found Something Worse, AG Says Something smelled off in the Maryland woods, and investigators say they soon found out why. A septic company employee is facing criminal charges after allegedly dumping sewage from a company truck onto a wooded property near a residential area in Wicomico County, Attorney General Anthony Brown announced on Friday, Sept. 4. Terry Adrian Handy Jr., of Eden, was charged last month with two counts each of illegal discharge of a pollutant and unlawful disposal of sewage. The case began in October, when the Wicomico County Health Department was called to a property near Price & Son Septic Se…

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DoorDash Driver Was Almost Done For The Night When Everything Went Wrong DoorDash Driver Was Almost Done For The Night When Everything Went Wrong
DoorDash Driver Was Almost Done For The Night When Everything Went Wrong One last delivery was supposed to end a night of work for a Maryland DoorDash driver. Instead, William Koroma says it ended with his car totaled in a serious crash on Church Road in Bowie, leaving him without the vehicle he depended on to make a living. Koroma said he was on his way to make his final delivery of the night when his brakes failed, and he crashed. Photos shared after the wreck show the devastating aftermath, with the front of Koroma's vehicle crushed and mangled. Still, he walked away. Koroma said he was grateful to have survived and that nobody else was seriously injured i…

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Army Vet 'Red Beard' Dies In Crash Before November Wedding: 'Damn Good Man, Good Soldier' Army Vet 'Red Beard' Dies In Crash Before November Wedding: 'Damn Good Man, Good Soldier'
Army Vet 'Red Beard' Dies In Crash Before November Wedding: 'Damn Good Man, Good Soldier' A new chapter was just beginning for Derek Volkmer and his family in Maryland. The Glen Burnie Army veteran was preparing to marry his fiancée, Jen, in November, while building a life with two young children, Jae and Jax, who friends say adored the man they called Dad. Instead, the family is mourning “Red Beard.” Volkmer, 40, was killed on Thursday, Sept. 3, while working as a tractor-trailer driver in Virginia, according to friends and Virginia State Police. The fatal crash happened shortly before 11:30 a.m. on I-95 in Stafford County, where a tractor-trailer ran off the roadway, struck …

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