News & Announcements Archives
February 2008
Corrections Agency Official Fired
February 29, 2008 | Virginia News
Woman Charged With Impersonating Officer in FairfaxCollege lockdown revives campus gun debate in Virginia
February 29, 2008 | Virginia News
Members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus will join two General Assembly legislators March 3 for a press conference to promote a bill that would allow concealed handguns on college campuses.Manassas Police to Screen for Immigration Status
February 28, 2008 | Virginia News
Council Gives Approval for Process Triggered by Certain Crimes, With Deportation a PossibilityU.S. Steps Up Deportation Of Immigrant Criminals
February 27, 2008 | National News
Immigration officials are increasingly scouring jails and courts nationwide and reviewing years-old criminal records to identify deportable immigrants, efforts that have contributed to a steep rise in deportations and strained the immigration court system.New police chief appears the leader Hopewell needs
February 27, 2008 | Virginia News
Hopewell Police Chief Steven D. Martin has his work cut out for him.Martin is Hopewell’s first permanent police chief since the summer of 2006. He comes to a police force that had been wracked by controversy and turmoil.
Winchester police chief quest pared down to 10 candidates
February 27, 2008 | Virginia News
The candidates have been narrowed down, but the search for a new city police chief continues.The police chief post has been vacant since October, when Eric W. Varnau resigned.
1,000 people show support for Trooper Chapman
February 22, 2008 | Virginia News
Joanie Russell didn’t leave the Bristol hospital for days after her son, Virginia State Trooper Kris Chapman, was critically injured Feb. 1. Saturday, however, she was in public adding her voice to those of other mothers fighting drunk driving with a fervor fueled by personal experience.Federal, State & Military Resources Assist Chesterfield Police with Fatal Explosion Investigation
February 21, 2008 | Virginia News
CHESTERFIELD – Members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit, and the U.S. Marines Quantico EOD Unit have concluded their removal of military ordnance from a Chesterfield County residence in the Glebe Point subdivision. Approximately 75 antique military munitions were taken from the house and garage at 14108 Granite Point Court.Police standoff in Martinsville ends with no one injured
February 21, 2008 | Virginia News
A man was taken into custody following a standoff with police Wednesday afternoon south of Martinsville.County sheriff’s deputies and Virginia State Police troopers responded to a house on Brass Shop Road, near the Martinsville Speedway, after someone contacted law enforcement and urged them to do a well-being check at the house, Henry County Sheriff Lane Perry said.
Give Kids A Boost
February 20, 2008 | VACP
Children who have outgrown forward facing toddler seats need to transition into booster seats.
