Via Craigslist: Is this your cat? It’s been wandering around between Fairmount and R street, around the 2300 block. It seems lost, it’s very friendly and hungry. We already have cats, so we can’t keep it here, but reply if it’s yours, maybe I can hold it for you the next time it comes around?
RIchmond Police were called when several small bags of powder were found at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church: Police used field-test kits to determine that the bags, discovered near the rear of the church property in the 3300 block of R Street, did not contain cocaine or heroin. However, a test for opiates came up [...]
The RTD is reporting on stolen car stop that also solved a robbery on Cedar Street: Police made a traffic stop in the 1800 block of R Street shortly after midnight on a vehicle that had been stolen in Henrico County, said Richmond Police Capt. Dave Martin. The driver, Trevon Hairston, 18, was charged with [...]
The Richmond Police Department’s Noteworthy Events details 3 different robberies over the past 3 days, only 2 of which happened late at night in areas that most people wouldn’t be walking if given a choice.
What police thought was a possible hostage situation on the 2300 block of R Street ended quietly after a tense 30 minutes or so. One version of what happened has a domestic dispute over a woman escalating to the point where one man went for his shot gun.
Police are looking for a white van and a blue car involved in a shootout on R Street a few minutes ago. The two vehicles exchanged at least 5 shots between 21st and 22nd Streets. No one outside of the vehicles was inured, though a house was struck by a stray bullet.
A man fleeing a traffic stop wrecked into a pole at 25th and Fairmount, fled the scene of the accident, and was caught by officers shortly thereafter in the 2300 block of R Street.
Just before 10PM last night an as-yet-unidentified man was shot and killed in his car on R Street between 19th and 20th Streets (the ragged edge between Mosby and Fairmount). [via]
The 100+ year-old residence at 2318 R Street was torn down today.
On one of the first cold nights of this season, a fire burned a rooming house at 1118 N 23rd Street. The fire appears to have started in the basement and everyone seems to have gotten out ok. [ photos inside ]
