NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Prosecutors say a series of robberies by a suspect called the “fake beard robber” cost stores in Hampton Roads more than $47,000. A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted 38-year-old Ronald Wayne Carr of Newport News on charges of interference with commerce by robbery. Read full article >>
A Manassas woman was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges that she illegally bought and intended to sell more than two dozen firearms. Prosecutors also say that she lied to investigators about the purchases. Read full article >>
A former teacher from Herndon is facing federal charges for allegedly receiving and possessing child pornography, authorities said. Robert Fenn, 27, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday. He had taught at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly prior to his arrest on related state charges in June, according to the U.S. Show More Summary
RICHMOND, Va. — A motorist faces a hit-and-run charge in the death of a Richmond bicyclist. Media outlets report a grand jury in Richmond indicted 30-year-old Elias Steven Webb on the felony charge Monday. Read full article >>
A federal grand jury has indicted a D.C. man on charges that he made two separate bomb threats against Amtrak, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.’s office announced Friday. The grand jury indicted Michael J. Dennis, 27, on two counts of threatening to blow up railroad carrier equipment and two counts of using a cellphone to make a bomb threat. Show More Summary
A Fort Washington couple is accused of embezzling $1 million in funds intended to fight global HIV infections and using it to renovate their home and buy luxury cars, a federal grand jury in the District charged Wednesday. Read full article >>
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia inmate has been charged with trying to have fellow gang members murdered. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced Wednesday that a Lunenburg County grand jury indicted Larog Anthony Trowell on 13 counts of soliciting murder and 13 counts of felony gang participation. Show More Summary
A Prince William County grand jury has indicted the man police call the East Coast Rapist on charges of rape and abduction stemming from a Halloween 2009 attack on three trick-or-treaters. Aaron H. Thomas, 40, now faces a potential maximum...Show More Summary
RICHMOND, Va. — Ten convicted felons face charges of lying on voter registration forms during Virginia’s presidential election in 2008. Five men and five women were indicted Monday by a Richmond grand jury on one felony count each of making a material false statement on a voter registration form. The charges stem from a Virginia State Police investigation. Read full article >>
A Radford man is being sought on charges of running a puppy scam. A grand jury indictment handed up last week charges 23-year-old William David Oliver Jr. with nine counts of obtaining money by false pretenses. Read full article >>
A D. C. Superior Court grand jury Wednesday indicted a D.C. Metropolitan police officer on nine counts, including assault with intent to kill while armed, in connection with an Aug. 26 shooting that left one person injured as the officer allegedly tried to solicit a transgender prostitute. Read full article >>
A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Albrecht G. Muth, the man accused in the fatal beating and strangulation of his Georgetown socialite wife, on first-degree murder charges. At the time of his arrest following the August death of Viola Drath, 91, prosecutors charged Muth with second-degree murder. Show More Summary
A Prince William County grand jury indicted a former Manassas school system kindergarten aide, coach and library secretary with sexual abuse crimes that go back more than three decades. Steffon Rodney Christian, 48, was indicted on 63 counts Tuesday of sexual abuse involving 10 victims, according to prosecutors. Show More Summary
The case against Aaron H. Thomas, the alleged East Coast Rapist, will move forward after a Prince William County judge on Thursday certified multiple charges to a grand jury. Thomas, 40, who grew up in Prince George’s County and most...Show More Summary
A federal grand jury in the District is investigating an unidentified man for using Twitter to allegedly threaten former presidential candidate and member of Congress Michele Bachmann, according to a court opinion made public Thursday. Read full article >>
A federal grand jury issued a 17-count indictment Tuesday against accused White House shooter Manuel Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, charging him with attempted assassination of the president and an array of other crimes. Read full article...
A Columbia woman was arrested Friday after a grand jury indicted her on child abuse charges — even as authorities continue to investigate the same child’s death months after a police investigation began. Joaquinia M. LaJeuness, 28, was arrested in Michigan, Howard County police said Monday. Show More Summary
A Montgomery County grand jury indicted Curtis M. Lopez on Thursday, charging him with murder and kidnapping in the deaths of 11-year-old William McQuain and his mother, Jane McQuain, 51, who was Lopez’s estranged wife. The indictment...Show More Summary
A D.C. grand jury has indicted seven members of a criminal street gang located at 14th and Girard Streets NW who authorities said were responsible for several murders and shootings since 2006, including the 2010 murder of a rival gang member following an afternoon funeral in the busy U Street corridor, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Thursday. Read full article >>
MACON, Ga. — A Bibb County grand jury has indicted 26-year-old Stephen McDaniel on a murder charge in the killing of Lauren Giddings, his Mercer University law school classmate and next-door neighbor in Macon. The Telegraph newspaper reports the grand jury also indicted McDaniel on Tuesday on 30 counts of sexual exploitation of children. Read full article >>