This week, a man was charged after police say he threw an inhaler at an officer, and the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office is investigating two separate cases involving possession of heroin.
Check out all the crime stories that did not make the headlines this week and others you may have missed below.
James City County
Bed Bath & Beyond Sales Associate Charged with Embezzlement
A 19-year-old employee of a WindsorMeade Marketplace store is facing a misdemeanor charge after admitting to stealing store credit.
Police said Bed Bath & Beyond Sales Associate Alliyah Bolden would take store credit from customers, swipe the cards and give them back new cards without credit, keeping the customers’ cards with a remaining balance for herself.
She admitted to stealing three cards with values of $21.20, $97.49 and $30 and using them at the store in Newport News.
James City County Police charged Bolden with misdemeanor embezzlement March 5.
Police Receive Two Reports of Stolen Cars
A pickup truck was reported missing from a home in the Country Village mobile home park.
The owner of the Dodge Dakota pickup called James City County Police at around 5:30 a.m. March 5 and told them her truck was missing from her home on Domino Drive, a James City County Police spokesperson said.
Police received a call at around 10 a.m. that day from the Norfolk Police Department, who said they found the truck stuck in the mud on East Ocean View Avenue.
James City County Police and Norfolk Police are now working together to investigation the vehicle theft.
On the same day, James City County Police received a call about a Chevy pickup truck that had been stolen from the 7800 block of Richmond Road in Toano.
The truck owner said he left the key in the vehicle, which he believes was stolen overnight on March 4.
He called police later on March 5 and said he found his truck on Longhill Road.
Police: JCC Man Stole More than $800 of Checks
A 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after police say he stole a checkbook and cashed checks in his personal bank account.
Police were told Oct. 18 a man believed Christopher R. Delaney stole his checkbook and cashed two checks valued at $200 and $250 on Oct. 2.
Delaney wrote a third check valued at $275 around the same time and asked another person to cash it for him, according to police.
That person was notified Oct. 18 that the check was written on a closed account.
Delaney is now facing three felony counts of forgery, three felony counts of uttering, one misdemeanor count of larceny of checks and one felony count of breaking and entering a car with intent to commit larceny.
Man Accused of Stealing Jewelry from JCC Home
A Midlothian man is facing two felony charges after being accused of stealing jewelry from home where he was working to install windows.
Douglas W. Harris, 24, and another employee of Williamsburg Windows and Doors went to a home in the 100 block of Wickre Street off Merrimac Trail on Aug. 27 to install new windows, according to a police report.
The next day, the homeowner noticed more than $800 in jewelry was missing from her home.
She contacted police in February and reported the incident.
Investigators were able to track the stolen jewelry to a pawn shop in Richmond and arrested Harris on March 7. He now faces one felony count of grand larceny and one felony count of larceny with intent to sell.
York County
Deputies Charge Man with Possession of Heroin
A Yorktown man found unconscious in an apartment is facing charges after deputies from the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office discovered he had drugs on him.
Deputies responded to the 200 block of Piccadilly Loop in the Grafton Station apartments Sept. 10 and found Bradley S. Bruce, 31, passed out from an apparent drug overdose, Lt. Dennis Ivey with YPSO said.
Deputies found drug paraphernalia as well as an unknown amount of what they believed were illegal drugs.
Bruce was transported to Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News for treatment.
The substances were taken to the Department of Forensic Science for testing, and the results came back positive for heroin and Fentanyl, a synthetic opiate used to treat severe pain.
Bruce was charged March 2 with two felony counts of possession of a schedule I or II substance.
Man Charged with Heroin Possession After Refusing to Leave York County Hotel
A 35-year-old man is facing a felony possession charge after YPSO deputies found him with heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Ivey said Joseph B. Tillman, a Newport News man, and at least one other person were refusing to leave their room at the Staybridge Suites on Commonwealth Drive near the Kiln Creek Regal Cinemas on March 4.
The hotel staff called 911, and when YPSO deputies arrived, Tillman and the other person fled the room, getting into a car.
The deputy eventually stopped them and noticed Tillman was lethargic and sweating profusely when he approached the car.
He also saw a plastic straw containing white residue and a crack pipe in the vehicle.
Tillman, who was the only one charged, was arrested and transported to the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, where he was served with one felony count of possession of a controlled substance.
Williamsburg
Police: Man Charged for Throwing Inhaler at Officer
A Williamsburg man was arrested Monday after attempting to assault a police officer while upset at a woman he knew, police said.
Brian Thomas Koch, 38, was having a “loud” argument with the woman at a home in the 100 block of Merrimac Trail Monday when officers from the Williamsburg Police Department arrived, Maj. Greg Riley said.
The woman told officers she wanted to leave, so officers were attempting to help her gather her things when Koch got “very upset,” picked up an inhaler and threw it at one of the officers, Riley said.
The inhaler missed the officer, who arrested him and transported him to Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, where he was charged with misdemeanor assault and felony assault on law enforcement.
In Case You Missed It:
- A man received a five-year sentence after stealing three pairs of sunglasses from a Richmond Road store.
- A Grafton woman pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from a Hampton doctor’s office and the IRS.
- A man suspected of selling weed in James City County is heading to a grand jury.
- A man is suspected of assaulting a woman and sticking his finger in her mouth to stop her from yelling for help.
- Missing evidence in the case against a man accused of stealing a coworker’s car and crashing it into a tree led to charges being dropped last week.
- Police are investigating after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up the McDonald’s on Second Street.
