Keith Epps

1 week ago | fredericksburg.com | Keith Epps

Edwin Lard will never fondly remember his 11th birthday. He woke up on Nov. 15, 1986, and his mother — who didn’t come home the previous night — still wasn’t home. Lard and the rest of the family learned that day that Jacqueline Lard had been brutally murdered sometime after 9 the night before after leaving her job in Stafford County. Her body was left in some woods in Woodbridge. “She was my mom,” the now 49-year-old Lard testified Monday.

2 weeks ago | fredericksburg.com | Keith Epps

A dispute involving a “Trump hat” resulted in a felony charge for a Stafford man Wednesday, police said. Sheriff’s spokesman Ryan Wilbur said Deputy H.R. Perkins went to Jay’s Sports Lounge on Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) in North Stafford about 6:20 p.m. for what he described as a “difference in political opinions.”Wilbur said that after noticing the victim wearing a hat associated with President Trump, he snatched the hat off the man’s head and assaulted him.

2 weeks ago | fredericksburg.com | Keith Epps

A Spotsylvania County man is facing more than 40 felony charges after walking into a trap set by a Houston-based Internet predator group, according to police and court records. Steven Andrew Devan, 25, is charged with using an electronic device to procure a minor, two counts of indecent liberties with a child and 40 counts of possessing child pornography. He is being held in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

2 weeks ago | fredericksburg.com | Keith Epps

A Maryland man who served as the getaway driver in a failed 2021 drug-related robbery attempt in Fredericksburg was ordered Thursday to serve eight years in prison. Kim D. Prophet II, 31, was sentenced by Judge Gordon Willis to 16 years with half of it suspended. He was previously convicted by a jury in Fredericksburg Circuit Court of attempted armed robbery, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, shooting into an occupied dwelling and conspiracy. The botched robbery occurred on Aug.

2 weeks ago | fredericksburg.com | Keith Epps

The Fredericksburg City Council might take a new look at how future city elections with multiple candidates for a single position are determined. Councilman Will Mackintosh Tuesday night raised the idea of exploring a ranked-choice voting system in future city elections. In such a system, voters would list their preferences in order in single-seat races involving three or more candidates.