PW police: Tasering was lawful
An internal review by Prince William County police has determined that police acted appropriately when they Tasered a 54-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman during a backyard baptismal party.
Police said Thursday that officers were accosted by family members when they tried to arrest a “highly intoxicatedÓ Edgar Rodriguez at his Manassas home. Leticia Elias was also arrested and Tasered when she reportedly put herself between officers and Rodriguez.
Dozing truck driver hits woman in crosswalk
A woman was hit by a truck Thursday morning while crossing K Street Northwest, heading south on 15th Street.
The woman crossed the street with the walk sign but was hit by a Virginia Linen Services truck partway through the intersection, witnesses said.
Mark Elliott, who was driving the truck, said he was dozing off at the wheel. The woman was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover.
Venemous snake attacks in Southeast
Two people in Southeast D.C. are recovering from copperhead snake bites.
A woman walking her dog was bit on her finger. A picture of the snake on her cell phone helped doctors determine it was a copperhead. On Wednesday, a man who was bitten on the hand by a copperhead.
Woodbridge man convicted of mortgage fraud
A jury convicted Godwin Asifo, 55, Thursday of running a mortgage fraud scheme that caused at least three northern Virginia homes to go into foreclosure, prosecutors said.
The homes ranged in value from $335,00 to $765,000 and were purchased by straw buyers on Asifo’s behalf. He promised the buyers to pay the mortgages and then sell the homes for a profit within six months. Asifo lended the buyers thousands of dollars to inflate their bank accounts so they could qualify for loans that he didn’t pay off, sending the houses into foreclosure.
– Compiled by Freeman Klopott, Scott McCabe and Maria Schmitt
