The city announced Thursday afternoon that Warner is leaving the department to become the chief of police in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania – a move that allows her to return closer to home.
The jury spent most of the afternoon deliberating whether to convict Davis on two counts of abduction by force after she was accused of locking students in a class bathroom as a form of punishment in September of 2021.
Ronald Smith, 41, is now facing five charges in connection with an incident the day after Christmas. Authorities claim that he stole a semi-truck from the sheriff’s property and led deputies on a chase.
Online records show that a two-day trial for Ma’Aquil Ni’mill Littlejohn is set to begin July 25 in Augusta County Circuit Court.
Authorities accused Davis of locking students in a bathroom at Peak View Middle School for lengthy periods of time as a form of punishment in 2021.
In a release, the department said that Dustin Allen Dove, 23, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office.
In this week’s Rocktown Now Crime Report, Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson updates us on the continuing repairs that have closed the Rockingham-Harrisonburg Regional Jail for the past two weeks and tells us about his personal journey into a career in law enforcement. If you have a question for Sheriff Hutcheson, send it to news@rocktownnow.com!
According to online records, Timothy Thomas Comer will go before a grand jury in Page County Circuit Court on June 5.
The FBI believes the Williams, 24, and Winans, 26, were murdered at a campsite near Skyland Resort. However, a suspect has never been arrested in the case.
According to Sheriff’s Lieutenant Leslie Snyder, authorities responded to her home daycare in October 2022 for reports of an unresponsive infant, and emergency workers could not revive the child. An investigation failed to prove that Stewart caused the death.

