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Trooper Lucas Dowell was killed while helping the Piedmont Regional Drug and Gang Task Force search a home on Monday night.
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The headquarters building of the Chilhowie (VA) Police Department was abandoned and shuttered on Thursday when an officer processing evidence following an arrest accidentally allowed the release of an unknown substance into the air.
Read More →A Virginia State Police trooper was killed late Friday, when an SUV struck the trooper in an intersection in Hanover County. He was working a special assignment at the State Fair of Virginia.
Read More →The Virginia State Police have been asked to conduct an independent investigation after a University of Virginia student was injured during an arrest near campus Wednesday.
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 →More and more Virginians are obtaining police powers using a little-known provision of state law that allows private citizens to petition the courts for the authority to carry a gun, display a badge and make arrests. The number of "special conservators of the peace" has doubled in Virginia over the past decade
Read More →Court records show the man police say shot and killed Virginia State Police trooper Chad Dermyer last week in a Richmond bus station had an extensive criminal record and his aunt says he was very "angry" toward police. More Here.
Read More →The trooper approached the SUV on the passenger side. The driver was non-compliant to the trooper's requests and drove away at a “high rate of speed” with the trooper trapped in the passenger side door, police say.
Read More →Master Trooper J. A. Walker, a 60-year-old with 40 years of service, was found in a cruiser off Interstate 85. Trooper Walker was killed at 1:20 p.m. Another trooper responded and saw a man firing into the state police car.
Read More →Starting pay for troopers would rise from $36,200 a year to $43,000 under the agreement struck between the Republicans who control the money committees for both chambers. In addition to the 3 percent raise, existing troopers would see their annual salaries jump by more than $6,700 to keep pace with the new hires.
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