The Roanoke Rapids Police Department has developed persons of interest in two Village Grocery robberies that occurred less than three weeks apart.
A woman pictured in the above photo is one of two people wanted in a February 7 kidnapping where an elderly Roanoke Rapids woman was forced to go to two banks and withdraw large sums of money from her account.
An investigation by the U.S. Postal Service has been launched after an off-duty Roanoke Rapids police officer reportedly detected the odor of marijuana inside the city post office Tuesday afternoon.
A Roanoke Rapids man is in jail on $200,000 bond after a series of morning break-ins today, Roanoke Rapids police report.
For the second time in less than three weeks, the Village Grocery near KapStone and the Roanoke Canal Museum has been robbed.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department is looking for the woman in the surveillance photos below who allegedly broke into a vehicle and stole a credit card and other personal items.
Monday was apparently a day for brazen acts of crime in Roanoke Rapids, as police reported a 69-year-old woman was robbed of a cell phone in her pocket and another thief helped himself to a pocketbook as the victim stopped to tend to her infant child.
A Littleton area man is in jail on $100,000 bond after allegedly intentionally crashing his car into his girlfriend's car this morning and then leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended at his home on Roper Springs Road.
A high-speed chase that began this morning at the corner of Old Farm Road and Becker Drive and ended on Roper Springs Road has landed one man in police custody.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department is offering a citizens police academy as a way to educate the community and also gain a better understanding from the community of problems and issues that the citizens have.
