Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 TAG: 9501030104
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: HOLIDAY
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HAMPTON - Authorities are investigating police officers' role in a chase that ended in a multicar pileup in the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
The Thursday evening crashes came as police chased a car driven by a woman suspected of fraud, authorities said.
Four officers received minor injuries. Five police cars and the suspect's car were involved.
State police said the suspect, Carla Lynn Bolo, 37, of Virginia Beach, crashed in the tunnel as officers pursued her.
After the woman's car stopped, the first two Hampton police cars pulled up near her car. Two more police cars then stopped near the first two. A fifth patrol car failed to stop, however, and clipped another squad car, state police spokeswoman Tammy Van Dame said.
The impact from that crash triggered a chain-reaction impact among the other four cars.
The woman and her passenger, Teresa L. Robertson, 31, of Virginia Beach, were immediately arrested. They were not injured, police said.
Hampton police spokesman Donnie Moore said the department is investigating whether any of the officers violated policy. He would not name the officers involved.
- Associated Press
16-year-old charged with deserting baby
DANVILLE - Authorities charged a 16-year-old South Boston girl Friday with abandoning her newborn daughter last month.
A secretary at a medical office, checking the employees' entrance the night of Dec.4, found ``Baby Noel.'' She said she heard a cry and found the infant outside in a brown box.
The baby, who had been born about two days previously, still had its placenta attached.
The petition for the girl's arrest states that she acted with a ``reckless disregard for the child's life,'' Danville Police Maj. B.C. Elliott said.
Police would not say how they were led to the suspect. She was not identified.
The baby was released into foster care after spending a week under observation at the Danville Regional Medical Center.
- Associated Press
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