Category: Crime

  • Crime, assault stats show DTM has become safer

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    David McNair
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    In the wake of the alleged “knock out” assault on the DTM, police have released stats on police calls for service, reported incidents, simple assaults, and aggravated assaults stats for the Downtown Mall between January 1, 2013 and December 29, 2013. According to police, the DTM had a drop of 36 percent in Calls for…

  • Viral justice? Chief Longo on the alleged “knock out game” assault on the DTM

    Viral justice? Chief Longo on the alleged “knock out game” assault on the DTM

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    David McNair
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    Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo has not had a pleasant couple of weeks. During a coffee shop interview on January 2, Longo took time to discuss the fall-out from an allegedly vicious, unprovoked attack on a white couple by three black males that occurred on the Downtown Mall early Thursday morning on December 20. A…

  • Wild West: Shootout on the DTM

    Wild West: Shootout on the DTM

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    David McNair
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    The Hook–Early Saturday morning, March 16, at approximately 12:45am, three gunshots rang out on Second Street NW on the Downtown Mall, between the offices of the Hook and the Elks Lodge, leaving two men shot and wounded on the street. According to police, the two men have been identified as Frank D. Brown, 56, of…

  • Ambassadors or bouncers?

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    David McNair
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    DTM business owners and patrons have apparently been giving City Council an earful about rude or aggressive behavior from some folks on the DTM, and so council has decided to spend $80,000 to hire four “Downtown Mall ambassadors.” Councilor have been quick to say its not a “crack down” on the homeless, though much of…

  • Man pulls gun on the DTM…charged with attempted murder

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    David McNair
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    On Monday night, a young homeless man pulled a gun on a couple and has been charged with attempted murder. According to NBC29, 23-year-old Samuel Erik Wheless (pictured) “touched a woman inappropriately” at about 8:15pm near the he 200-block of East Main Street (around the Jefferson Theater), and when a man with her confronted Wheless,…

  • Pot discussion at City Hall tonight

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    David McNair
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    Okay, this should be interesting. If you’re not doing anything tonight, head down the City Hall on the DTM and catch the city council discussion on pot. Councilors are expected to take action on a resolution to make busting people in Charlottesville for pot possession less of a priority for the police. Even the Rutherford…

  • Someone stabbed on the DTM last night

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    David McNair
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    Police are investigation a stabbing that took place at about 1am last night on the DTM, right around 1st Street, NBC29 reports. After an fight, its appears a 26-year old man was stabbed. He remains in stable condition at UVA. Know anything about it? Call the police at at 977-4000.

  • Does the Mall need a stronger police presence?

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    David McNair
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    From the DP: The mall, widely touted as the epicenter of city life, marked its 35th anniversary last summer, but there has been an uptick in disorderly activity, according to a statement accompanying the proposal on a list of unfunded city projects. “The city has seen an increase in pedestrian traffic, unruly juveniles, crimes associated…