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Alert Issued For Virginia Tech Student Johnny Roop, 20 Alert Issued For Virginia Tech Student Johnny Roop, 20
Alert Issued For Virginia Tech Student Johnny Roop, 20 A search is under way for a Virginia Tech student missing since last week. Johnny Roop, 20, was last seen at his apartment complex on Canyon Ridge Road in the Merrimac area of Montgomery County on Friday, Feb. 16, Virginia Tech said. His phone pinged near the New River Valley Mall at 4:26 p.m. later that same day. Johnny was traveling to his parents' home in Abingdon, to take an online exam by 5 p.m. but never showed up, the school said. He was driving a black 2018 Toyota Camry with Virginia license plate number: TXW6643. The car has a Virginia Tech flag sticker on the back window. Anyone…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Escaped Inmate In Virginia Linked To Armed Carjacking In Maryland Captured: DOC Escaped Inmate In Virginia Linked To Armed Carjacking In Maryland Captured: DOC
Escaped Inmate In Virginia Linked To Armed Carjacking In Maryland Captured: DOC An escaped inmate out of Virginia who was wanted in Montgomery County for an armed carjacking is back in custody, authorities announced.  The Virginia Department of Corrections announced on Wednesday that Naseem Roulack, 21, was arrested at around 9 a.m. by members of the Fairfax County Police Department and the US Marshals Service. Officials say that the bust was reported at a hotel in the 6700 block of Commerce Street in Springfield. Roulack was wanted in connection to an armed carjacking in Montgomery County on Friday, Spet. 1, after he escaped from the Virginia Department of Corre…

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by Zak Failla
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Police ID Virginia Man Killed Crashing Into Maryland Guardrail Police ID Virginia Man Killed Crashing Into Maryland Guardrail
Police ID Virginia Man Killed Crashing Into Maryland Guardrail A 22-year-old Virginia man was killed in Montgomery County over the weekend after crashing into a guardrail in an early morning crash, police say. Annandale resident Carlos Alexis Yanez Marquez has been identified as the person killed in a single-car crash in Rockville that sent two others to the hospital. Members of the Montgomery County Department of Police were called shortly before 5:50 a.m. on Saturday, July 29 to the area of Veirs Mill Road and Twinbrook Parkway where there was a reported crash. Investigators say that Yanez Marquez was driving east on Veirs Mill Road when he unexpec…

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police
PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police Shortly after friends said "drive safe & see you next time" to a Pennsylvania family, they received the news that all four members of the family had died in a crash on Interstate 81 in Virginia. A beloved grandmother, Douangpee Amnatkeo, 54, of Shippensburg, was driving a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox with her relatives Ericssan Kathpratoum, 13, Samiane Kothpratoum, 37, both of Shippensburg; and Monthy Matnopaseuth, 39, of Reading, in the passenger seats, while towing a U-Haul trailer back from the annual Lao New Year Festival at Wat Lao Buddharam in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, authorities said. …

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by Jillian Pikora