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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) -- Two robbery suspects exchanged gunfire with Virginia Beach police late Thursday night before being taken into custody with the help of K9 officers. The robbery happened just before 11:20 p.m. at a 7-Eleven in the 1700 block of S. Independence Boulevard, according to police. Officers caught on to this robbery thanks in part to a plan that was developed to address a spree of multi-jurisdictional armed robberies at 7-Eleven stores across Hampton Roads. Members of the 4th Precinct and Special Operations Command were surveilling operations at stores, when officers saw the two masked suspects leaving...

VIRGINIA BEACH The vehicle pulled into a spot at a 7-Eleven parking lot, away from the business and its patrons. Officers from a special operations unit had been following it for a half-hour before they pulled in behind it, police Chief Jim Cervera said Tuesday. Four officers approached. The passenger fired four rounds, Cervera said. One pierced an officer's sleeve, but he was not struck. Police returned fire - 30 rounds total, the chief said. The passenger, Angelo Delano Perry, 35, of Virginia Beach, and the driver, India Kager, 28, of College Park, Md., were killed. Their infant son was...

Police say a child in the suspect vehicle was not harmedVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY)–Two people were killed during an officer-involved shooting in Virginia Beach. Police said a suspect shot at officers, who returned fire. It happened outside the 7-Eleven at the corner of Lynnhaven Parkway and Salem Road. A little before midnight Saturday, Virginia Beach police got information about a person of interest in a homicide case. Officers found the subject in a car outside the 7-Eleven at 2093 Lynnhaven Parkway. When officers got close, police say the subject shot at them. A bullet went through one officer’s shirt. He...

Jacocks asked other local chiefs of police about their dealings with federal immigration officials and got backing from two of them. The Virginian-Pilot file photo Related: Messages to Virginia Beach show a public seared after girls' deaths VIRGINIA BEACH - In 2005, Virginia Beach allowed its police officers to detain illegal immigrants arrested on minor offenses so they could be deported. Later that year, Police Chief Jake Jacocks Jr. changed the policy - because, he said, federal immigration officials said they were only interested in deporting illegals charged with serious crimes. Had the policy been left in place, the...

The Virginian-Pilot © August 4, 2005 Last updated: 11:36 PM TalkNet:Post your condolences for Sgt. Brad Harper A Virginia Beach police officer serving as a Marine reservist has been killed by a massive roadside explosion while riding in an amphibious vehicle in Iraq.Bradley J. Harper, 25, died Wednesday along with 13 other Marines and an Iraqi translator on a road outside Haditha when a roadside bomb detonated and flipped their lightly armored vehicle.On Thursday, Virginia Beach police officers memorialized Harper’s death by “draping the badge,” a traditional show of honor and brotherhood by police who place a black swath across...

Breaking News: Virginia Beach police officer shot & killed in early morning traffic stop 06/23/2003 Associated Press & WVEC.com A Virginia Beach police officer was killed in a shootout early Monday that left another person dead. The police officer was killed in a shootout on Dam Neck near London Bridge Police spokesman Mike Carey says the officer, whose name has not been released, pulled over a Ford SUV for a traffic violation near the intersection fo Dam Neck and London Bridge Roads just minutes after a 3:20 a.m. robbery at a nearby International House of Pancakes. He said there were...