His First Court Appearance is officer matthew switzer. The officer who is been on paid leave since february is battling addiction and checked into rehab for treatment. Prescription drug abuse is the Fastest Growing drug problem in the united states. Unfortunately it appears officer switzer is another casualty of that trend. Switzer who turned himself in is facing two counts of firstdegree burglary, one count of seconddegree burglary one count of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs and one count of elder abuse. The District Attorneys Office says switzer used his status as an officer to steal prescription drugs from the apartments of senior citizens. He had prescriptions and the drugs that were involved are essentially harrowing. Switzers Attorney Says the client had numerous issues and severed from post traumatic stress. He was fighting a very serious addiction problem. It started out with prescriptions, he had an on duty injury. We were not told what switzers injury is or how it
Officials warning people to get vaccines against the measles. This after a second student came down with the illness. Allie will have more on this story in just a bit. Good morning. Welcome to mornses on it. Good morning. Im dave clark. Claudine said i can come in. Good to see you. Good to see rosemary. How is it looking . Its looking, take a look. Its a beautiful start to the day. The sun is up. We have just a little bit of patchy fog out there this morning and partly part cloudy skies. We are in for great weather. Its a cooler start, from four to eight degrees cooler than where we as the resulted yesterday morning but the sun is shining. We cant complain about that. Its a warmer day for the afternoon. Breezy for some, especially along the coastline. I will have details on the warm up as well as the windses and in the extended forecast itll just get warmer. I will have a look at the extended forecast and what is happening outside the door coming up. Time now 7 01. New this morning a s
Officers responded to the intersection of Fourth and Front streets on Sunday night. At the scene, officers found the boy unresponsive in the roadway with an apparent gunshot wound.
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This weekend will be your last chance to stop by the First Responses Festival, which features four one-act plays written by Central Virginia first responders.