Senior Alert canceled for Virginia man Photo of Vandegriek Jr. and generic 2004 Subaru Outback courtesy Virginia State Police (Source: Virginia State Police) By NBC12 Newsroom | December 28, 2020 at 10:36 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 8:06 AM
LOUDON COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A senior alert for an 89-year-old man who was reported missing out of Louden County Monday has been canceled.
Albert Vandegriek Jr. was last seen Monday at 12:45 p.m. along Providence Village Drive in Sterling. The Virginia State Police issued a Senior Alert Monday night on behalf of the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office.
Vandegriek stands at 6-foot-2 inches tall and 190 pounds, with black eyes and white hair. He could potentially be wearing blue sweatpants, blue shoes and a blue sweatshirt.
Four law enforcement agencies participated on Thursday in a police chase that led to the arrest of an Alcoa man who allegedly carjacked a vehicle and shot a woman in Knoxville.
Christopher Lavon Jones, 29, Ash Street, Alcoa, is being held at the Loudon County Jail on bonds totaling $47,500.
Around 5 p.m. Thursday, Alcoa Police officers spotted a vehicle flagged to have been involved in a carjacking in Knoxville the previous day, Alcoa Police Chief David Carswell told The Daily Times.
Officers attempted to pull the car over; however, the driver sped away, ensuing a chase from Hall Street to Eagleton Road, an Alcoa Police report stated.
The City of Miami Police Department (MPD) will get a new top cop next year, and more than 30 applicants from around the U.S. have thrown their hats into the ring to replace the current chief of police, Jorge Colina.
Colina, a 30-year veteran of the MPD, has led the department for three years. Earlier this year, he announced that he would step down in January, sparking a nationwide search for a replacement.
The search comes on the heels of major unrest and increased scrutiny of American police departments following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Colina himself came under fire this year when he was accused in June of using the N-word during a law-enforcement training session in 1997, and in September when he was named in a lawsuit alleging widespread corruption in the MPD by a fired detective who testified against another officer in an FBI investigation.
Boyfriend, 40, is charged with murder over 2011 cold-case disappearance of his pregnant girlfriend, 21, whose body was never found
Roland Roldan was charged with second-degree murder and abduction over the January 2011 disappearance of his girlfriend, Bethany Decker, in Virginia
Decker, 21, was five months pregnant with her second child when she went missing from her Ashburn apartment
Decker was married to an active-duty soldier but having an affair with Roldan, who had four children with three different women
In 2016, Roldan was sentenced to six years in prison for brutally attacking and shooting another ex-girlfriend