Crime

Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA leadership is calling for tougher laws, and better judicial enforcement, in the wake of no jail time in a plea deal in Greene County for three men whose 81 dogs were seized in June of last year from a Free Union puppy mill.

Michael Wayne Morris is facing charges of assault on a family member, brandishing a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

One of three men charged in the raid of a puppy mill last June in the Free Union area has pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors in Greene County Circuit Court, while the other two will not be prosecuted.

After talking about it for two years starting just after Chief Michael Kochis got here, the Charlottesville Police Department is hosting its first gun buyback program ever.

“That’s how this works, when I know I don’t have the votes, can’t do it anymore. That’s it”. Charlottesville Police Chief Mike Kochis to WINA’s Morning News about his decision not to use the Peregrine system that City Council earlier this year approved $150,000 for earlier this year.

James Grant League, Sr. has appealed his conviction but, in the end, pled guilty.

After hearing citizen complaints, Charlottesville Police Chief Mike Kochis announced he is not using one piece of new technology the city has approved and has curtailed the use of another in policing the city.

The baby suffered fractured arm, ribs.

Charlottesville Police are looking for a second suspect in the June 14 Downtown Mall shooting where a 30-year old man was found shot in the leg in the 200 block of East Main Street during a dispute investigators say may have started inside Fitzroy.

AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — Virginia State Police, with the assistance of Augusta […]