Think twice before calling the cops: The deadly cost of police welfare checks
Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.
Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.
A Roanoke man who had been acquitted in state court of a 2019 murder in Roanoke after claiming self-defense was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison on a federal gun charge.
A man is in custody in connection with a shooting reported on Sunday in Waynesboro.
Tyreaf Isaiah Fleming, 20, of Harrisonburg, was arrested Sunday afternoon following a shooting that left eight individuals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
A Greene County man pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday in a case in which a person to whom he had sold fentanyl died of an overdose.

Virginia State Police is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Roanoke on Saturday.
A man nicknamed “The Dapper Dan Bandit” is being sought in connection with the armed robbery of a North Chesterfield bank on Sept. 29.

A Hampton man was sentenced last week to 27 months in prison for a fraud scheme to obtain unemployment benefits made available because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced additional appointments to his administration and various boards.

Two more Roanoke men involved in a fatal shooting at an Eastern Avenue drug house in Roanoke pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for their roles in the shootings and related drug trafficking activity.
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