Surveillance camera footage from the grocery store captured one man throwing a punch at Kemonte Cooper, 28, of Roanoke County before Cooper fired a gun in his direction.
James Howard Spencer is charged with allowing town sewage to be dumped into creeks and rivers.
Benjamin "Logan" Cross, 30, was indicted in June 2022 on seven charges in connection with the collision that killed Frank Albert Campbell, 53, of Roanoke County.
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Kevin Lee Spencer, 47, of Roanoke voluntarily relinquished his firearms to law enforcement after he fired three shots from an assault rifle into the floor of his home on Jan. 28.
Thomas Anthony Morris and Melissa Dawn Trainer were arrested after two minors from Franklin County were found at Morris' home in Pulaski County
Alexander Bryce Gill, 21, has been charged with four felonies, including two counts of statutory burglary and two counts of property damage.
According to a search warrant, Robert H. Rue is suspected of trying to take $50,000 from Cambria Pentecostal Holiness Church, where he was the treasurer.
Officers also recovered 20 firearms and $6,647 in U.S. currency, Virginia State Police said in a press release Monday.
On March 10, members of the Star City Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the Roanoke City Police Gang Interdiction Unit arrested Ryan Tyrell Guerrant, 25, of Roanoke and charged him with three felonies.
Mary Huskey Palmer is accused of killing her husband Woody Palmer, a sergeant at the New River Valley Regional Jail, and of abducting his young daughter.
"Several citizens in the Roanoke Valley have received phone calls from an individual claiming to be a sergeant" in the Roanoke County Police Department, the agency said in a press release.
Shawn Michael Tolbert fled from police and sheriff's deputies in a high-speed chase last year, then ran into the woods and hid for weeks.
"I'm hoping that you can probably find some different people to hang out with based on what happened on this night," Judge Christopher Clemens told Nashawn Smith on Wednesday.
Caleb Wesley Burch, 29, pleaded guilty in Botetourt Circuit Court in November to three felony charges: using a firearm during a robbery, using a firearm during a drug robbery and fentanyl possession.
Curtis Eugene Keaton Jr., 39, of Roanoke, admitted to the shooting while he was being transported to the Roanoke Police Department for questioning, Commonwealth's Attorney Don Caldwell said Monday.
The Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office, together with Virginia State Police, arrested a man on Thursday accused of assault and battery and brandishing a firearm.
Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Alice Ekirch said Thursday that the messages the man sent the juvenile were "absolutely disgusting," "scary," and "wrong on so many levels."
Phillip Bane did not prove the accusation, the judge ruled.
Matthew Jerome Brown, 29, of Roanoke died Feb. 15 after he was shot at Ferncliff Avenue Northwest.
Christiana Leigh Justice was accused of killing her 15-month-old son.
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Tyler Anthony Jones, 33, pleaded no contest Wednesday to five charges connected to the Aug. 4 pursuit through southeast Roanoke.
Terry Michel remains a danger to himself and the community, a judge again ruled.
Gerald Maurice Carper Jr., who ran the Car Plug used-vehicle business, entered a string of guilty pleas Tuesday and was given a suspended sentence.
Eric Hallerman, president of the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center, said "haters gonna hate." But at the end of the day, "love wins."
Jonathan Hildalgo faces four felony charges: delivering narcotics to a prisoner, attempting to deliver narcotics to a prisoner and two counts of bribery in a correctional facility.
Two former employees are suspected of faking bills for repairs and calibration of equipment, according to a search warrant.
Sheriff Matt Ward said on Facebook at about 7:30 p.m. Monday that someone reported a possible sighting of Moseley in the Little Timber Ridge Road area.
According to court documents, Brandon Lee Michael Dunbar had gone to his child's mother's apartment to exchange Valentine's Day gifts. Then Cody Allen Gibson, the shooting victim, arrived.