This week, a teenager is accused of threatening another student and having a knife in his backpack at school, and an employee is accused of stealing money from Wawa.
Check out all the crime stories that did not make the headlines this week and others you may have missed below.
York County
Authorities Looking for Suspected Groceries Thief
This man is accused of stealing groceries from the Tabb Walmart (Courtesy YPSO)
Deputies are searching for a man accused of stealing more than $300 in groceries from the Tabb Walmart on Jan. 28.
A post on the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said the man was stopped by store security but was able to get away, jumping into a red pickup truck driven by another male suspect.
Investigators believe the suspect resides in Hampton, the post said.
Anyone with information on the man pictured is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office tip line at 757-890-4999 or Crime Line at 888-LOCK-U-UP.
James City County
Teen Accused of Threatening Student, Bringing Knife to School
A Jamestown High student may face charges after police say he threatened someone through a third party on Facebook and had a knife in his backpack.
An assistant principal at Jamestown High contacted the school resource officer Tuesday after security found a knife in the 15-year-old boy’s backpack, authorities said.
An investigation revealed the student, whose name cannot be released due to his age, had threatened another student via a third party on Facebook the night before.
Petitions asking a judge to charge the teenager with possession of a weapon on school property and threats of death or bodily injury to a person on school property have been requested, police said.
Betsy Overkamp-Smith, a spokesperson for the Williamsburg-James City County School Division, said although she cannot provide specific details, disciplinary action has been taken by the school.
Police Receive Two Reports of Wallet, Purse Thefts
A 29-year-old woman was arrested after a friend accused her of stealing her purse and using her credit card.
A woman told James City County Police her friends came to her home on the 2300 block of William Ellerly Drive on Jan. 1 to help her unpack.
When the friends left, the woman noticed her purse was missing and contacted her friends, who indicated they did not know where it was, police said.
The next day, the woman found her purse on the kitchen table and checked her bank account, noticing two unauthorized transactions totaling $273 had been made overnight, a police report states.
The woman told police Maria Ann Decker, 29, contacted her a few days later and admitted to taking the purse and using the credit card at a 7-Eleven ATM. Video surveillance also captured Decker using the card, authorities said.
Decker now faces one charge of credit card theft and one charge of grand larceny, both felonies.
In a separate report filed on Feb. 2, a woman told police 19-year-old Maria Johnson stole her wallet and used cash to buy a cell phone from Walmart.
Surveillance video from the store showed Johnson purchasing the cell phone with cash, police said.
After the purchase, Johnson suggested to the alleged victim to look for her wallet in a specific location, and when the woman went to the location, she found her wallet with $413 missing, authorities said.
Johnson was charged with felony grand larceny and misdemeanor obstruction of justice.
Williamsburg
Police: Woman Embezzled From Wawa
Williamsburg Police have arrested a 63-year-old woman accused of stealing money from Wawa beginning in December.
Maj. Greg Riley with the Williamsburg Police Department said officers received a report of embezzlement at the Wawa, located at 315 Richmond Road, at around 5:40 p.m. Feb. 6.
Officers were told Muriel Joan Gibson, an employee of the store, had been taking money in $10 increments from the cash register beginning in 2014 and had taken more than $300.
She was arrested at around 6 p.m. Feb. 6 and charged with felony embezzlement, Riley said.
In Case You Missed It:
- A nanny in James City County pleaded guilty to assaulting a man and a police officer in January.
- Two people suspected of stealing from Walmart in Hampton led police on a pursuit that ended when they crashed into another vehicle in James City County.
- A caretaker accused of embezzling more than $90,000 from a 92-year-old woman is heading to a grand jury.
- Toxicology tests revealed the driver who crashed into Warhill High graduate Samantha Julian in Barboursville, W.Va had a blood alcohol level of .20.
- A man convicted of raping a William & Mary student in 1978 received a life sentence.
- A Virginia Beach man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography of a Yorktown girl and three other juvenile girls.
- A James City County man was sentenced to 25 months for conspiring to commit bank fraud.
- A 19-year-old and a 17-year-old are accused of robbing at least two people and stealing marijuana from their home.