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Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including 338 murders and homicides. [1] In 2012 Virginia had the 3rd-lowest rape rate by state after New Jersey and New York. [1] [2] The state has significantly lower crime rates than demographically similar neighboring states Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [3]
Flanagan abandoned his Ford Mustang at the Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport and drove a rented Chevrolet Sonic north on I-81, then east on I-66. An automated license plate reader in a Virginia state trooper's car identified the rented Sonic at 11:20 a.m. The trooper called for backup and attempted to initiate a traffic stop, but Flanagan ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
UPDATE 9/30 5:21 P.M. ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – According to RFD, crews were dispatched to a building on the 200 block of Jefferson Street in Downtown Roanoke. Engine 1 arrived on the scene to find ...
A Virginia man arrested two weeks ago on an illegal gun charge was allegedly concealing the largest arsenal of “finished explosive devices” ever seized by the FBI, the bureau said in court ...
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree ... (20) Roanoke, Virginia/Vietnam [55 ... "Although the police department hypothesized that the crime was 'domestic in nature ...
Roanoke (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in Virginia, United States.It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains.
Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: they were fatally shot on August 26, 2015, near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, by Vester Lee Flanagan II, a.k.a. Bryce Williams. [8] FreightCar America shooting, October 25, 2016, in Roanoke, Virginia: Getachew Fekede killed an employee and wounded three others.