Crime & Safety
Strong Arm Robbery, Domestic Assault: PW County Police Logs
Police say a man knocked a woman from a chair and stole her phone when she tried to call police.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA — In the past week or so, police in Prince William County have dealt with several burglary calls and arrested a man on charges of domestic assault, interfering with a phone call to police and robbery. Charges are not proof of guilt.
Strong-Arm Robbery, Domestic Assault
Around 9:20 p.m. on July 29, police went to a house in the 5600 block of Reardon Lane in Woodbridge on a domestic incident call. Police say the victim, a 25-year-old woman, told them she and the accused, Michael Vaughn, 25, were in an argument when he knocked her out of a chair. She tried to call the police but Alexander knocked her phone from her hands, police say, and stepped on it before taking it. He had left before police arrived. The next day, he was arrested on charges of robbery, preventing the summoning of law enforcement and domestic assault.
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Attempted Residential Burglary
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Around 12:55 p.m. on Aug. 5, police got a call on an alarm activation in a house in the 2800 block of Barrley Drive in Dumfries. Police found the rear porch door damaged and an unlocked window. No entry is believed to have been made, police say, and nothing was reported missing.
Residential Burglary
Around 7:45 a.m. on Aug. 6, police were called to a house in the 3900 block of Cressida Place in Woodbridge to investigate a burglary. Sometime between 6:30 and 6:45 a.m., the resident told police, somebody broke into the front door and stole a safe including an undisclosed amount of money and other property.
Commercial Burglary
Around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, police went to Dionysos Imports in the 11500 block of Robertson Drive in Manassas on a burglary call. The business owner told police the burglary happened sometime between 9:15 a.m. on Aug. 5 and 7:20 a.m. on Aug. 6. Somebody had broken into the business through a window, police say. An undisclosed amount of money and other property was reported missing.
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