A 39-year-old Virginia man was arrested Thursday and charged with six counts of sex crime against children. Gregory Johnson faces three counts of rape, two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, and one count of forcible sodomy, the Bedford Police Department said. The department released no further information about the case but thanked …
A 15-year-old Virginia boy was arrested Tuesday and charged with the murder in the death of his grandmother. Police were called to a home late Tuesday afternoon and found the 63-year-old woman, identified as Christine Murray, dead, the Chesapeake Police Department said. The boy, who has not been named, was taken into custody. Police say …
A Virginia dad was arrested this week after daycare staff discovered a gun in his child’s backpack. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said it was called at about 8:30 a.m. Monday after Dylan Scott Whorley, 27, dropped the child off at daycare and staff found the gun. Investigators determined that Whorley had put the gun …
As social media buzzes with concern over reports of missing children across Virginia, a new trend has added to the unease: Videos of ice cream trucks allegedly operating well past midnight. One TikTok video posted by user @haleyybaylee showed an ice cream truck driving slowly down a dimly lit street at 1:23 a.m. The overlay …
A Virginia couple were arrested Thursday for assault and neglect of an 8-month-old child, but not until after the father barricaded himself in a home and forced a SWAT team to breach the front door and wall of the residence to get him out. Nikki Angelina Walker, 32, was arrested quickly and without incident, WDBJ …
A Virginia homeowner has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a high school athlete who was out with his buddies filming pranks for TikTok at 3 in the morning on Saturday. Tyler Chase Butler, 27, was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder, malicious wounding, and two counts of use of a …
A former Virginia nurse charged with injuring a 5-month-baby at the hospital where she worked was slapped Monday with several more charges. Six new charges — two counts of malicious wounding and four counts of child abuse and neglect — relate to two additional babies, WWBT reports. Erin Strotman was charged with malicious wounding, child …
Three Virginia women have been charged in connection with the death of a 4-year-old boy police say was “subject to long term abuse” by the three, all members of the boy’s family. The boy’s 5-year-old sister also suffered abuse and neglect by Rebecca Ann Romero, 53; Shanyah Elizabeth Dilda, 22; and Kemmilyn Anita Wade, 18, …
A 12-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert over the weekend was found dead in an icy pond. Virginia Beach Police said Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo was in eight feet of water with ice 3 inches thick, WIFR reported. They did not say how they think the boy ended up in the …
A former Virginia neonatal nurse has been arrested in connection with injuries suffered by babies in the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Henrico County Police Department said the charges against 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman stem from one incident in November but that they are looking at other incidents at the hospital …
Eighteen employees of a Virginia nursing home were charged this week with multiple counts relating the treatment of a 74 year old woman so severely injured by her treatment that she died. According to WRIC, five staff members were arrested on Wednesday . Shawanda Jeter, 46, has been charged with abuse and neglec of vulnerable …
A Virginia school bus driver has been charged with inappropriately touching students on his bus. Matthew Ellis Davis, 51, was arrested on Monday and charged with three felony counts of aggravated sexual battery/victim under 13 and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery, WSET reported. The victims were four girls: a 15-year-old, two 14-year-olds, and a …
