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Repeat DUI Driver Who Hit 105 MPH On I-95 Busted With Booze, Guns In Virginia, Sheriff Says Repeat DUI Driver Who Hit 105 MPH On I-95 Busted With Booze, Guns In Virginia, Sheriff Says
Repeat DUI Driver Who Hit 105 MPH On I-95 Busted With Booze, Guns In Virginia, Sheriff Says A Northern Virginia man who deputies say was tearing up I-95 at more than 100 mph late Friday night didn’t exactly help his case when he stepped out of the car — because the beer can, the booze bottle, and the smell apparently got there first. The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said the stop happened in the northbound lanes of I-95 near mile marker 145 on Friday, Nov. 29, shortly before 11:45 p.m. A first sergeant spotted a driver flying down the highway at 105 mph in a 65, and even passing another car on the right shoulder, officials said. A deputy rolled up to assist moments later. Onc…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Armed, Drunk Man Rams Car, Flees Cops In Wild Highway DMV Chase: Police Armed, Drunk Man Rams Car, Flees Cops In Wild Highway DMV Chase: Police
Armed, Drunk Man Rams Car, Flees Cops In Wild Highway DMV Chase: Police A Culpeper man is behind bars after allegedly flashing a gun, fleeing from police, and smashing into another driver during a reckless highway pursuit, officials said. Scott L. Wilks, 60, of Culpeper, was arrested after he allegedly sparked a fight at a business on the 700 block of Nalles Mill Road and then took off — armed and intoxicated — before crashing into another vehicle, the Culpeper Police Department said. Police were called around 8:40 p.m. after a fight broke out between two customers. Things quickly escalated.  After the physical altercation, Wilks allegedly went to hi…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
90 MPH Chase Ends With Wanted Driver In Cuffs: Virginia State Police 90 MPH Chase Ends With Wanted Driver In Cuffs: Virginia State Police
90 MPH Chase Ends With Wanted Driver In Cuffs: Virginia State Police A man who is wanted for violating his probation in Maryland didn't go down quietly and forced police in Virginia into a wild, unsuccessful high-speed pursuit to evade capture. Manassas resident Cristian Valle is behind bars after being arrested by Virginia State Police troopers in Fauquier County, but not before he took them for a ride earlier this week, the department announced on Thursday. The 25-year-old was the subject of a BOLO issued by the Fauquier Sheriff's Office at approximately 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 22, when Valle was spotted driving recklessly in Warrenton. While canvasing th…

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by Zak Failla
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Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…

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by Joe Gomez