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Tank-Happy Soldier Steals Armored Vehicle and Takes it for a Joyride

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RICHMOND, Virginia — Hard to imagine why this seemed like a good idea.

A man has been arrested after stealing an armored personnel carrier and racing it through the streets of a Virginia town.

Cops say the vehicle, which was not equipped with weaponry, was stolen by a soldier from nearby Fort Pickett, WWBT-TV reported.

The sight of the military vehicle racing through town, prompted numerous calls to cops who quickly began giving chase.

Police eventually surrounded the vehicle and got it to stop nearly two hours after it was taken. The driver surrendered without incident.

 

 

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Cops Hunt For Wedding Crasher Who Made Off With Newlyweds’ Gifts

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Cops are looking for this woman who allegedly crashed a wedding and made off with a bride and groom’s gifts

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — A sticky-fingered thief brazenly crashed a wedding and walked off with a pile of gifts intended for the bride and groom, cops said.

The heartless heist occurred at Rusty and Autumn Waddell’s nuptials on May 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Virginia Beach, when a stranger wandered into the party.

The bride’s mother thought the woman looked out of place and snapped a picture of her, but before anyone noticed, she had walked off with a pile of gifts, WTKR-TV reported.

“It’s pretty wild on a person-to-person level,” Rusty Waddell said. “I don’t understand how you could do that, especially at a wedding.”

He says it’s not clear what the woman got away with as they hadn’t opened any presents yet. Now, they are stuck having to call all their guests to ask what they had given.

“I think embarrassing is the word I would use,” he said. “It’s always hard to reach out to someone and ask them what gift they brought you.”

But he said the worst part is that he and his bride’s memories of their special day will always be a bit spoiled.

“We’ll of course have the good memories from the party and hanging out with our friends and all that, but it’s all going to lead down to the end of the night having to think back to the end of the wedding and someone stealing from us.”

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Doc Who Slipped Abortion Drug Into Pregnant Gal Pal’s Tea Sentenced to 3 Years

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Sikander Imran poisoned his girlfriend, Brooke Fiske, after she refused to have an abortion

ARLINGTON, Virginia — A doctor who spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s tea with an abortion drug, causing her to have a miscarriage, has been sentenced to three years behind bars.

Sikander Imran, 32, was arrested last May and pleaded guilty in March to fetal homicide. He was given a 20-year sentence on Friday, but 17 years of it was suspended by the judge, court records show.

Imran’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, Brooke Fiske, 37, was 17 weeks pregnant when she went to talk to him about raising the child.

‘He didn’t want to have a baby so he tried to talk me into having an abortion… which I didn’t want to do,’ Fiske told WROC-TV last year.

Then he placed the drug in her drink.

“When I was drinking my tea in the evening I got to the bottom of the cup. There was a gritty substance in there and when I looked at it, I could tell that it was a pill that had been ground up,’ she said.

A few hours later, she went into labor and lost the baby. Doctors conducted a blood test and found that she had an excessive amount of the prescription abortion pill Misoprostol in her system.

‘I felt very betrayed and devastated,’ she said about the man she had been involved over three years.

Despite her loss, she argued against a stiff penalty for Imran.

“To me, the length of time that he serves in prison isn’t what’s important,” Fiske told WJLA-TV. “I think that it is really important that people know that if they are dealing with depression before they do something, they should reach out and get help.”

The doctor lost his medical license following his arrest, and will likely be deported to his native Pakistan after he finishes serving his sentence.

 

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Man Caught Making Bogus Biker Gang Kidnap Claim to Cover up Affair

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Larry Wayne Price at first blamed the Pagan biker gang as part of his bogus kidnap story

BLUEFIELD, Virginia — A man who was reported missing by his wife and later told cops he’d been kidnapped and drugged by a motorcycle gang after being found on the side of a road, has been charged with making it all up to cover up that he’d run off with his mistress.

Larry Wayne Price, 38, was reported missing by his wife to the Bluefield, Virginia police on April 14, triggering a full-scale manhunt involving helicopters, police dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officials, federal prosecutors said.

Later that day, a driver spotted Price wandering down a country road carrying $3,800 in cash in his pocket, and he was taken to a local hospital where he began spinning a series of wild tales to cops.

At first, he Price told detectives he had been abducted by two, unknown men, drugged and held against his will until he was thrown out of a van near where he was found. He said that while he was held the men took him to Hawg Pit Cycles in West Virginia, which he owns, where they took  his keys and made off with the contents of his safe, including a knife and a gun.

Larry Wayne Price

But when the FBI reviewed security video from the shop, they saw no sign that anyone had gone into the store during the night in question. That’s when Price began to change his kidnap story, saying he had been kidnapped by members of the Pagans motorcycle gang and that he thought he may have been kidnapped because he owed someone money.

When asked to whom he owed money, Price said he wanted to “plead the Fifth” but then said he thought it best to say “that he made it all up, he needed to clear his head, and say he disappeared on his own.”

It was only then that investigators were able to determine that Price had spent the time with another woman who manages a restaurant he owns. The woman eventually told cops that she and Price had begun plotting in February to disappear and start a new life together and that he had spent his time missing with her at a house her father owned.

Around the same time, a  $10.5 million, 26,000-square-foo mansion Price owned in Billings, Montana was seized by three local entrepreneurs to whom he owed $11 million, the Billings Gazette reported.

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Man Busted After Shooting Self and Blaming it On 2 Made-Up Black Assailants

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Eric Jones shot himself but thought he’d get away with it by blaming it on invented black men

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia — Stupidity is not colorblind.

A Virginia man was arrested after he shot himself in the leg and then tried to blame it on two mythical black men he claimed tried to rob him, police said.

Deputies from the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s office responding to t a call Sunday about a man shot at an Econo Lodge found Eric Jones, 23, with a bullet wound in his leg.

He told them two black men had approached him and shot him. But when cops began interviewing witnesses, it became apparent that Jones had shot himself and had made up the story about being attacked.

When cops searched his room in the motel, they found a gun, which they determined had been reported stolen.

Jones was taken to the hospital and was arrested after he was treated and charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, receiving stolen property, reckless handling of a firearm and filing a false report. He was held without bail.

 

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Clown-Faced Bomber Charged With Threatening to Blow Up 7-Eleven in Virginia

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Crystal Mostek threatened to blow up a 7-Eleven with a fake bomb

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — What she did to her face may well be the real crime.

A Virginia woman with a heavily-tattooed and pierced mug has been charged with threatening to blow up a 7-Eleven after placing a device on the counter and claiming it was bomb.

Authorities say they are not entirely sure why Crystal Mostek, 33, walked into the convenience store Tuesday evening and placed the package on the counter. Officials later determined that the device wasn’t actually a bomb.

Mostek was charged with threatening to bomb and possession of a hoax device and remains in custody at the Virginia Beach Jail.

At her arraignment, Mostek said she’s not guilty and that the charges against her are false. WTKR-TV reported that Mostek’s attorney is looking into whether she needs mental health treatment.

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3 Nine Trey Gangsters Convicted in 2015 Murder Spree That Killed 5 in Virginia

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Malek Lassiter (l), Nathaniel Mitchell and Anthony Simmons were convicted in a brutal 33-day killing spree

NORFOLK, Virginia — Three members of a brutal gang dubbed a “fraternity of death,” by prosecutors, have been convicted of a violent 33-day crime spree in 2015 in which five people were murdered and six others wounded.

It took a federal jury just five hours to convict the three members of the Nine Trey Gangsters who killed the victims for reasons stemming from witness intimidation, retaliation against perceived disrespect and robbery.

In one case, a woman was shot and killed because two gang members were vying to see who could kill more people and she was simply walking on the wrong side of the street, prosecutors said.

Antonio Lee Simmons, 38, who prosecutors described as the gang’s leader, faces multiple life sentences. Nathaniel Mitchell, 25, one of the gang’ “shooters” was found guilty of four of the killings and also faces numerous life sentences.

Malek Lassiter, a 22-year recruit who took part in the spree as part of his initiation into the gang,  faces a minimum of 85 years on racketeering and assault charges.

Three other gang members had previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the murder spree that stretched from Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth to Virginia Beach during the holiday season in 2015.

Trial testimony revealed that the bloody orgy of violence was triggered when Simmons got into trouble with his superiors for messing up the gang’s finances. The hope was that the spree would help him pay back the money. But it also stemmed from a war between Simmons and the leader of another line of Nine Trey Gangsters, which is a branch of the United Bloods Nation.

From approximately Thanksgiving through Christmas of 2015, the gang members murdered two men and three women, most of whom had no affiliation with the gang, prosecutors said.

Among the victims, Linda Lassiter, 48, and her boyfriend Wayne Davis, 48, were killed just weeks after speaking to the police about a gang-connected shooting at her daughter’s house.

Another victim, Al-Tariq Tynes, 26, was killed because gang members thought he was talking to police. His body was stuffed in the trunk of his car and driven around for days before he was dumped into a ditch.

Jamesha Roberts, 25, a young mother of two children under the age of five, was gunned down in Norfolk after her shift at the airport Starbucks. Trial testimony revealed that Mitchell was in a competition with another Nine Trey member to see who could shoot the most people,  and killed her for “walking on the wrong side of the street.”

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VIDEO: Drunk Driver Gets Knocked Over By Own Car During Police Chase

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You asked, we answered. Here’s the in-car video from this morning’s #FCPDStrangerCalls post.

CARma: Our officers tried to pull a man over. He sped off, then got out of his car to escape, but forgot to put it in park. Oops. He got hit by his own car. He’s okay physically, but is charged with DWI – 3rd offense, and a long list of other charges. #FCPDStrangerCalls

Posted by Fairfax County Police Department on Tuesday, March 6, 2018

MOUNT VERNON, Virginia — You’ve got to be pretty darn drunk to get hit by your own car.

A blotto Virginia man led cops on a high-speed chase before bailing out of his moving car which knocked him to the ground as he tried to scramble away, the Fairfax County police said.

Outlandish dashboard camera footage from a pursuing police cruiser shows Isaac Bonsu attempt to run in front of the vehicle and then get promptly knocked to the ground as officers close in.

Police say the zany episode unfolded early Sunday morning when the they attempted to pull over th 30-year-old Bonsu for a busted tail light. But he took off, leading cops on a chase before pulling onto a side street where he tried to escape on foot.

After getting knocked down, Bonsu managed to stay one step ahead of cops for a bit, but they eventually caught up to him and charged him with drunk driving — his third such charge — felony hit and run, driving without a license and with an open container of booze and marijuana in the car.

He was not hurt in the incident, cops said.

Isaac Bonsu

 

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Legless Pilot Busted For Flying Without a License After Prosthetic Foot Causes Crash

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Robert Gray didn’t have a legal leg to stand on

NORFOLK, Virginia — A legless man barred from piloting an airplane has pleaded guilty to flying without a license after wrecking a plane when his prosthetic leg got stuck on the brake during landing.

Robert R. Gray, Jr., 55, was flying a 1972 Piper aircraft in July when he flipped the craft over during landing at the Umphlett Airstrip in Suffolk, Virginia.

He initially denied flying the plane and claimed the pilot had run off, but later admitted he had been behind the controls and that he believed his prosthetic leg got stuck as he had no feeling on his right side.

“Gray admitted he had flown the plane, and told investigators he had no business flying the plane because he can barely drive a car,” prosecutors said.

Gray, who uses a walker and motorized scooter to get around, has bought and sold many aircraft over the years but was never able to get a license because he couldn’t get medical clearance to fly due to a variety of health issues.

Prosecutors said he had once had a student license but it had expired. Authorities had twice before caught Gray behind the controls but he claimed he thought he was allowed to as he was flying with a licensed instructor and the FAA let him go with a warning.

Gray pleaded guilty to serving as an airman without a certificate and faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison.

 

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Jew Hating Neo-Nazi Cop-Turned Islamic Terrorist Convicted of Aiding ISIS

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Nicholas Young is both a Nazi and an ISIS supporter

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A Jew-hating neo-Nazi-turned-ISIS supporter who worked as DC Metro cop for over a decade, was convicted of trying to help the terror group.

The case marks the first time a U.S. law enforcement agent has been convicted of attempting to give support to a terrorist organization.

Prosecutors say Nicholas Young, a 38-year-old Muslim convert, had given financial support to a friend he thought had gone to Syria to join the terror group, but who was actually an undercover FBI informant.

“Nicholas Young swore an oath to protect and defend, and instead violated the public’s trust by attempting to support ISIS,” said Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

He was also convicted of obstruction of justice for lying to FBI agents who had questioned him about the whereabouts of his friend who had purportedly gone to Syria to fight. He face sup to 60 years in prison.

Young, who had worked as a cop for the DC metro system for 13 years, had come onto law enforcement’s radar in 2011, after he had gone to Libya on vacation at the peak of fighting there to overthrow former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Strangely, Young was active in neo-Nazi circles for years, participating in reenactments in which he dressed up as an SS officer and sporting Nazi tattoos. But he also collected literature advocating violent jihad and regularly watched ISIS propaganda videos.

Prosecutors said the odd connection between the two interests was Young’s deep hatred for Jews.

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