TAPPAHANNOCK POLICE ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE IN LARCENY INVESTIGATIONS

The Tappahannock Police Department is asking for the public’s help in solving three recent larceny cases.  The larcenies have occurred over the past month at WAL-MART and Bareford Buick in Tappahannock. 

 

On April 3, 2015 two suspects took several electronic items from the Wal-Mart and exited through the lawn and garden section of the store.  The suspects then left the area in a black SUV.  On May 5, 2015 two suspects again removed several electronic items and left through the lawn and garden section.  In both incidents the suspects are described as two black males wearing dark clothing and ball caps.  Pictures of the suspects may be viewed on the department Facebook page.

 

The police department is also asking for assistance in the theft of tires and wheels from Bareford Buick on Tappahannock Boulevard.  In the overnight hours of April 24, someone removed the tires and wheels from a 2013 Buick Regal. 

 

Anyone who has information related to these crimes is asked to contact the Tappahannock Police Department @ 804-443-3992.  You may also provide information anonymously through the department website, www.tapp-pd.org.

 

The police department thanks the public for their assistance.  

 

 

 

 

TAPPAHANNOCK POLICE TO PARTICIPATE IN CLICK IT OR TICKET

Once again, The Tappahannock Police Department is reminding motorists to Click It or Ticket. As part of the national seat belt enforcement campaign, law enforcement agencies around the country will be stepping up enforcement May 18 to 31, just ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. 

 

“Every day, unbuckled motorists are losing their lives in motor vehicle crashes,” said Chief James G. Ashworth, Jr. “As we approach Memorial Day weekend and the summer vacation season, we want to make sure people are doing the one thing that can save them in a crash, buckling up.”

 

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of the 21,132 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2013 were unrestrained. At night from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number soared to 59 percent of those killed. That’s why one focus of the Click It or Ticket campaign is nighttime enforcement. Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a no-excuses approach to seat belt law enforcement, writing citations day and night. In Virginia the maximum penalty for a seat belt violation is $25 for adults and $50 for an unrestrained child.

 

“If you ask the family members of those unrestrained people who were killed in crashes, they’ll tell you—they wish their loved ones had buckled up,” added Chief Ashworth.  “The bottom line is that seat belts save lives. If these enforcement crackdowns get people’s attention, and get them to buckle up, then we’ve done our job.”

 

For more information on the Click It or Ticket mobilization, please visit www.nhtsa.gov/ciot.