Law enforcement agencies share intelligence in new center
September 29, 2009 | Virginia News
The call came from an intelligence fusion center in Illinois to Virginia's fusion center in Chesterfield County.
Police at the University of Illinois had identified a Virginia resident who had been cyber-stalking two students and threatening to carry out a campus massacre similar to what occurred in 2007 at Virginia Tech. The suspect said by e-mail that he was on his way to the university on Jan. 12, 2008.
The Virginia Fusion Center, housed in Virginia State Police headquarters on Midlothian Turnpike, used the information to find out what kind of car the suspect was driving and to determine that he had no record of firearms purchases in the state. They soon found him through local law enforcement in Southwest Virginia, where he was being held on a mental-health warrant, Virginia State Police said.
