A Virginia man was arrested last week for allegedly driving under the influence before spitting on officers and claiming he had coronavirus. WWBT reported that Henrico police arrested Clarence Jones on March 17 after spotting him drive away from the scene of an accident. Officers who pulled over Jones reportedly smelled alcohol, prompting them to …
A 17-year-old Virginia boy believed to have shot and killed his mother and younger brother and wounded his father has been captured in North Carolina, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department said late Saturday. The sheriff’s department said Levi Norwood was caught shoplifting at a store in North Carolina, and the red Toyota Camry he was …
A Virginia woman who fatally beat her 11-year-old daughter so severely that it split her stomach open was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week. Latoya Smith, 35, pleaded guilty to felony homicide and child abuse or neglect in the May 2018 slaying of Heaven Watkins. WVEC reported that she was sentenced on Friday …
A Virginia US Postal Service worker who hid droves of mail he did not deliver in a storage unit will be sentenced next month in federal court. Jason Delacruz, 38, pleaded guilty in November to felony delay of mail by a postal employee. Federal investigators got involved in May after someone filed a complaint alleging …
Police in Virginia announced on Tuesday that they have made an arrest in the unsolved homicide of an infant boy who was found dead in a park in 2003. Chesapeake police said their ongoing investigation and forensic testing led them to charge Melissa Chrisman, 41, with felony murder and felony child abuse and neglect on …
A Virginia man severely beat a relative visiting for the holidays early Sunday when he found the man nude from the waist down in his young children’s bedroom, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said. Spotsylvania County deputies arrested Mark Stanley, a 60-year-old visiting from North Carolina, charging him with two counts of taking indecent liberties …
A Virginia OBGYN is accused of performing tubal litigations and unneeded hysterectomies on patients without their consent. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested on Friday on charges of health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters. Perwaiz’s victims told authorities that they were unaware of the surgeries he had performed until afterward, …
A Virginia man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter for shooting one of his wife’s lovers to death earlier this year. WVEC reported that Dusan Naumovic, 54, was sleeping in his son’s room on the evening of March 2 when his wife, who slept in a separate bedroom across the hall, brought Vinicius Carneiro, …
Authorities in Virginia say a New Jersey man has been arrested on suspicion of an armed carjacking that victimized two adults and their two small children. According to WTOP, the incident happened at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at an auto parts store in New Jersey. Investigators became aware of the alleged crime when a …
New forensic data reportedly confirms the suspicion of Virginia police investigating the remains of a young child found in a trash incinerator earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Hampton police believed the remains were those of 2-year-old Noah Tomlin and his mother was arrested on suspicion of her involvement in his disappearance. According to …
Authorities in Virginia say a man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing that left three people injured at a plasma donation center in Petersburg. According to Fox News, 20-year-old Jairique Shannon is accused of entering the Octapharma Plasma facility during an Independence Day event in search of the restroom. Shortly thereafter, he allegedly …
Authorities in Virginia say a man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of causing their 2-month-old daughter’s death late last year. According to Fox News, officers from the Danville Police Department responded to the home of 27-year-old Eugene Chandler and 26-year-old Shaleigh Brumfield, where they reportedly found the young victim unresponsive. After attempting to …
