Virginia State Police Beat: Bloxum VRS ambulance driver blows red light; crashes into bus and kills patient

The Bloxum Volunteer Rescue squad was traveling southbound Route 13 in a 2013 Chevy ambulance. The rescue squad vehicle was transporting a patient, with lights and sirens activated, when the driver drove through the red light at the Route 180 intersection. Upon driving through the intersection, the ambulance struck a 2013 Ford Star Transit Bus causing the ambulance to lose control and overturn several times.

Virginia State Police Beat: Two St. Charles City deputies collided; suspect escapes

CHARLES CITY CO., Va. – Two Charles City County Sheriff’s Office sworn personnel are recovering from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon. The traffic crash occurred at 1:26 p.m., on Route 5 just west of Glebe Lane in Charles City County as police were pursuing a vehicle which later crashed with the driver escaping.

Pickup swept away by high water found; driver still missing on Little Patuxent River

At approximately 10:50 p.m., Anne Arundel County Police investigating the area in response to a missing person call located the white pickup truck in the water, approximately 150 feet south of the bridge. Firefighters and Special Operations personnel returned to the scene and were able to conduct a search of the vehicle and surrounding waters and the shore lines in the area. The flood waters had receded approximately 15 feet from the time of the initial 911 call in the morning.

Murder USA: Sunday afternoon shooting leaves one dead in Fairfax; Fairfax Police charge Eddie Rodriquez and Dominique May in murder of Rashad Daye

Initial reports indicated that five men entered an apartment, engaged in some sort of disagreement and one was shot, another was wounded, and others fled the scene. There were at least two men at home in the apartment; neither were injured. Subsequent investigation revealed that the men were known to each other and that the incident was not characterized as a “random.” Detectives are still investigation motives for the incident.

Murder USA: When will State Department issue a crime warning for travelers to Baltimore the same as for Mexico and Bahamas?

BALTIMORE, MD. With a soaring homicide rate for 2015 at 38 percent over 2014 thus far this year and murders reaching close to the 100 mark for the year, Baltimore nearly doubled the murder rate for the Bahamas. The U.K. and Canada have both issued violent crime warnings for travelers to the Bahamas. Many cruise ship passengers simply stay on ships that arrive at ports in the Bahamas. Ironically, two ships from Baltimore make regular trips to the Bahamas.