One Hampton police major back in, another out
HAMPTON — A high-ranking Hampton police officer who was put on leave in early 2012 during an internal investigation into the department's undercover cigarette operation is now back at work. Meantime,...
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Report: Woman runs over nonpartisan husband An Arizona woman ran over her husband with a car Saturday in Phoenix because he didn't vote in the election, police said Monday. Holly Soloman, 28, was...
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Honoring our veterans The Monday edition of the Daily Press featured a story about Aaron Gautier, a 19-year-old soldier from Hampton Roads who died in 2007 fighting in Iraq. • Dennis Long: Thank you...
View ArticleRetired lieutenant plans lawsuit involving officers
HAMPTON — A retired police lieutenant who helped conduct an undercover cigarette sting is planning a lawsuit involving "several current and former members" of the Hampton Police Division, his attorney...
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Newport News reports high voter turnout Many precincts saw high turnout for voting Tuesday in Newport News, with long lines in some areas. • David Collier: It was a long line at Braxton Perkins...
View ArticleSTORY: Hampton police ran profitable cigarette business
HAMPTON — For more than a year and a half, Hampton police officers ran an undercover cigarette business. Tens of thousands of dollars at a time would change hands inside a nondescript industrial...
View ArticleInvestigation finds lax HPD practices
In an internal investigation made public Thursday, Hampton police say lax practices were to blame for $8,000 in misused travel funds. The investigation into the Hampton Police Division's misuse of...
View ArticleHampton police ran profitable cigarette business
HAMPTON — For more than a year and a half, Hampton police officers ran an undercover cigarette business. Tens of thousands of dollars at a time would change hands inside a nondescript industrial...
View ArticleA timeline of key events in Hampton cigarette sting
Spring 2010: A special agent with the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Clifford D. Posey, approaches Hampton about running an undercover cigarette case. June 2010:...
View ArticleCivil Rights group calls for special grand jury for Hampton cigarette...
HAMPTON — A local civil rights group is asking a judge to appoint a special grand jury to investigate an undercover Hampton police cigarette operation. The Coalition for Justice for Civil Rights filed...
View ArticleHampton backs off prior assertion that an accounting firm had checked out...
HAMPTON — The City of Hampton has backed off its prior assertion that an outside accounting firm audited the Hampton Police Division's undercover company that took in millions of dollars in a...
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NoPa Joe Paterno, the legendary Penn State football coach known as "JoPa," had to go in the wake of allegations that his longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky sexually abused young boys. That's according...
View ArticleHampton orders external review of cigarette operation, places police chief...
HAMPTON — An undercover cigarette-tax sting operation once known only to a small group of Hampton police officers and federal agents will be reviewed by an independent accounting firm and a former...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 10/22: Chief on leave, UFL woes, layaway angels
Chief on paid leave City Manager Mary Bunting placed Hampton Police Division Chief Charles "Chuck" Jordan Jr. on indefinite administrative leave with pay while external reviews are conducted of an...
View ArticlePolicy, personnel changes coming in Hampton following cigarette investigation
Hampton police will operate under a more strict set of rules and will likely answer to a new chief in 2013 after a Daily Press investigation publicized the details of an undercover cigarette sting...
View ArticleHampton City Council to receive cigarette audit report Wednesday
HAMPTON — The City Council is scheduled to publicly discuss a report expected to detail the accounting of an undercover cigarette operation during a meeting being held Wednesday afternoon. The city of...
View ArticleJustice for Jenny
Twenty-eight-year-old Jenny Hatch has Down Syndrome but had lived fully integrated in her community until a judge ordered her into the guardianship with the Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Tidewater,...
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Assisted living admin's license revoked The Virginia Board of Long-Term Care Administrators voted Tuesday to revoke the administrator and preceptor licenses of Scott Schuett. Schuett's licence was...
View ArticleCigarette sting vehicles lined up at Fort Monroe
HAMPTON — It's still an open question what will become of the nine vehicles purchased using nearly $400,000 from Hampton's Blue Water Tobacco cigarette sting. But the mystery surrounding their...
View ArticleHampton asks court to dismiss request for grand jury in cigarette sting
HAMPTON — The City of Hampton is asking a judge to throw out a civil rights activist's request that a special grand jury be appointed to look into Hampton's cigarette sting — saying there is no legal...
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