Virginia State Police

A Black federal worker who was stopped and arrested by a Virginia State Police trooper without just cause told Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder the traffic stop itself was just the beginning of the traumatic experience.

Virginia State Police are investigating a recent traffic stop in which a white trooper stopped and arrested a Black woman who works for the U.S. Department of Defense “without proper legal basis,” according to the Office of the Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Virginia State Police are investigating a recent traffic stop in which a white trooper stopped and arrested a Black woman who works for the U.S. Department of Defense “without proper legal basis,” according to the Office of the Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Dashcam video captured the moment an employee of the Department of Defense was stopped and arrested by a Virginia State Police trooper in an incident that is now under investigation. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder speaks with the woman at the center of the controversial traffic stop.

A white state trooper who was seen on video telling a Black driver — quote — “you are going to get your a—whipped” is no longer with the Virginia State Police

Four people were hurt when a tractor-trailer driver swerved and hit a Prince William County OmniRide commuter bus on eastbound I-66 Thursday morning, police said. The bus driver and four passengers were taken to hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. One bus passenger reported no injuries. The tractor-trailer driver was in the left lane when traffic came to a sudden…

The Army second lieutenant is suing the officers for violating his constitutional rights. Brett Hall, from NBC affiliate WAVY-TV 10, reports.

Police responded to a shooting to find one person dead and eight injured. Then, police responded to a second shooting to find another victim dead in an unrelated incident.

A 35-year-old man was killed Saturday after his car was hit by another vehicle fleeing from the police

Maryland State Police and the Montgomery County Department of Police are searching Wednesday for a reckless driver who was being pursued by police in Virginia, crashed into cars in Maryland and then came to a final crash on Interstate 495, police said.

Authorities said Officer Dominic Winum had been with Stanley Police since 2016 before he was killed during a traffic stop. As seen on NBC Washington on Feb. 27, 2021.

A Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man armed with a gun Thursday morning.  The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office responded to a welfare check on a man who lives in the 12000 block of Horseshoe Drive about 9:40 a.m. When deputies arrived, they found Donald Francis Hairston, 44, in an agitated state, according to the sheriff’s office. Hairston...

Virginia State Police are phasing out their familiar silver-gray-and-blue police sedans

A family of five, including three children, was found fatally shot in their Culpeper, Virginia, home in what appears to be a murder-suicide.

A Northern Virginia teenager was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in in the deaths of a young couple shot to death Feb. 8 on a rural Virginia highway hours from home, police said. Mohamed A. Aly pleaded guilty in Halifax County Thursday to the first-degree murders of 18-year-old Ayanna Maertens-Griffin and 21-year-old Joel Bianda. Bianda had agreed to drive…

The driver of a stolen car suffered life-threatening injuries Friday after speeding 90 mph on an exit ramp then crashing during a police chase, Virginia State Police say. The driver, a 29-year-old Connecticut man, is expected to be charged, police say. Virginia State Police say a trooper tried to pull over a stolen Audi Q5 SUV about 10:05 p.m. on…

A prosecutor has opted against filing criminal charges against a Virginia State Police trooper who played to the camera as he forcefully removed a Black motorist from his car during a traffic stop.

Two prisoners who fled from a Virginia juvenile facility through a hole in a fence have been arrested in Michigan nearly two weeks after they escaped, authorities say. Jabar A. Taylor, 20, and Rashad E. Williams, 18, escaped from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in the Richmond area July 13, the state Department of Juvenile Justice said. U.S. Marshals with…

Virginia State Police trooper is under investigation for a violent traffic stop of a Black driver caught on camera. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Virginia State Police are conducting an investigation of a police stop on the Capital Beltway last year after video of the incident showed a trooper telling a Black driver “you’re going to get your a– whooped.”  Police say they launched a criminal investigation after video was published on social media this week of the traffic stop in April 2019....