An officer with the Fairfax County (VA) Police Department has been suspended from duty because he assisted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in identifying and taking into custody an undocumented immigrant who was a fugitive after failing to appear for a deportation hearing.
Read More →An officer with the Newport News (VA) Police Department responded to an unusual home invasion call on Tuesday as a couple reported to the non-emergency number that a squirrel was trapped in a fireplace.
Read More →The "Uptown Funk" lip sync challenge video that gained almost instant Internet fame was among the 10 finalists on the television special Lip Sync to the Rescue—which featured first responders singing and dancing to popular music—and ended up taking the top spot among voters.
Read More →An officer with the Herndon (VA) Police Department exchanged gunfire with a suspect on Monday night during an investigation into an alleged armed robbery—neither the gunman nor the officer was struck.
Read More →Police in Virginia successfully arrested a naked man suspected of murdering three people in Pittsylvania County on Tuesday.
Read More →Officers with the Prince George County Police Department welcomed two new officers and a new K-9 to its ranks on Monday.
Read More →On August 12, 2017, State Troopers Berke Morgan Matthew Bates and Henry John Cullen III were hovering in a helicopter above the Unite The Right Rally in Charlottesville. As they hovered, the helicopter began to pitch up and down suddenly and eventually crashed into the ground and burst into flames, the lawsuit details.
Read More →Nine police officers with the Hampton University (VA) Police Department have been fired for posting "misogynistic, racist … remarks" on social media.
Read More →The Augusta County Sheriff's Office is investigating a second report of a police impersonator along a stretch of a local highway in the span of one week.
Read More →An officer with the Prince George County Police Department suffered minor injuries in a two-car crash on Wednesday night.
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