GROTTOES — As Virginia Lynn Ware lay in her gravel driveway, her boyfriend stood over her, lowered a gun and fired, neighbors said Tuesday.

They heard the couple’s shouting match in Blackrock Trailer Court but didn’t look until the shots.

A judge Wednesday sentenced two Waynesboro men to prison for breaking in to three churches and stealing cash and electronics.

Stephen P. Bakaitis, 23, and, Joshua T. Bakaitis, 21, each pleaded guilty to 16 felonies and two misdemeanors.

Surprised by Wendy Sprouse’s embezzlement sentence of more than 22 years, a Shenandoah County judge on Wednesday added just two more years to her time for violating probation on prior convictions.

A Waynesboro man pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor DWI for crashing his car into a shallow pond 150 feet off Route 250 on July 1.

Shaun Snead, 23, was fined $250, will drive on a restricted license for 12 months, is required to attend substance abuse meetings and received a 30-day suspended jail sentence.

Police on Monday took a report of vandalism to a vacant building at 654 N. Bath Ave., at the former site of a church.

Paint buckets stored inside were dumped over and damage was done to a heating unit and ceiling tiles in an attached trailer, police said.

A Waynesboro man nearly clipped a stop sign with his car, swerved his vehicle across neighborhood streets and fled from officers before being Tasered early Sunday, police said.

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Police on Friday arrested a Waynesboro man who they say became combative while being led from his home.

A Verona couple are scheduled to plead guilty today to federal drug trafficking and firearm charges stemming from $1 million in guns, cash, vehicles and methamphetamine found at their home in February.

n Police are investigating an alleged assault on Sears Hill Lane. A man reported two cuts to his leg, police said. He was treated at Augusta Health. Police said robbery was not a motive and that the victim could not say how many assailants might have been involved.

An apologetic Waynesboro man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing SunTrust bank March 9 in a heist built around a bomb threat.

Adhering to a plea agreement, Judge Humes J. Franklin sentenced Stuart H. Veney III, 29, to five years in prison with 15 additional years suspended.

Authorities charged a Stuarts Draft man Wednesday for an alleged assault of the mother of his child.

A former Waynesboro tractor-trailer driver whose rig hit and killed a 16-year-old Albemarle County girl will serve two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

Michael Comer, 45, the man accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Glenmore Community Association, has been released on $50,000 bond.

A vehicle stolen from a Sheetz gas station in Staunton Friday evening was recovered less than two hours later in Waynesboro and an arrest made.

A Waynesboro gang member will spend two years in prison after pleading guilty to a beating at a city gas station.

Shadows clung to Wendy Sprouse as she strode into a meeting that July day but she claims never to have sensed the demons stirring.

A Waynesboro woman charged for the murder of her boyfriend pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter this morning.

Elderly Afton woman was found stabbed to death with her car gone.
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“I am sorry about the drug use,” Rice said in court.

A judge Wednesday sentenced a Waynesboro woman to one year in prison for having sex with two teen boys and fraudulent credit card use.

A Virginia Beach man is off the hook in Augusta County for charges of unlawful sale of police equipment, but is bound for jail anyway.

A former Waynesboro man died early this morning after suffering a knife wound to the chest Wednesday night on King Ave.

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Craigsville woman to one year and six months of electronic home monitoring and five years on probation for possessing and attempting to make methamphetamine and for distribution of marijuana.

Police on Tuesday said they have arrested a Waynesboro man in connection with a Sept. 8 shooting they initially described as self-inflicted.
Police charged Brian H. Henkel, 18, of Maple Avenue, with discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling in the Sept. 8 shooting of Joshua Via, 21, who was staying at 520 Pine Ave.

The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office reported the Thursday morning arrest of a 44-year-old Verona man who allegedly took a Bridgestone tire from a residence on the 700 block of Balsley Road in Staunton.

Motorcycle racing frames, motors and parts, along with a Jeep transmission and parts of other various vehicles were stolen Thursday from a residence on the 100 block of Homeplace Lane in Stuarts Drafts, the Augusta Country Sheriff’s Office reported today.

Graffiti appears on entrance signs to the Staunton office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Archery Lane.

Four charges of indecent liberties with a minor against a former Staunton bus driver were certified to a grand jury Wednesday in Augusta County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

Three arrests since Friday have shuffled the Staunton Police Department’s “10 most wanted” list, police announced today.