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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office held a Promotion Ceremony today (June 12, 2025) at Virginia Beach City Hall, Building 1, recognizing four deputy sheriffs with combined service totaling 46 years who recently earned promotions under Sheriff Rocky…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (VBSO) today graduated the first Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) class in a decade, with 32 students at Star of the Sea Catholic School successfully completing the curriculum.As a private institution, Star of the Sea is…
Here at the VBSO, we know how important it is for you to keep in touch with your incarcerated loved ones.Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implemented new regulations to cap the cost of phone and video calls for incarcerated people and their families, reducing rates…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (April 22, 2025) – The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office (VBSO) is hosting an all-day opening Hiring Event for individuals interested in expediting the application and testing process to become a deputy sheriff. The event will be on Saturday, April 26, starting at 8 a.m. at the…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - An inmate at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center died by suicide Sunday evening.While conducting a routine security check at 6:03 p.m. on April 6, 2025, a deputy sheriff found Michael “Norah” Horwitz, 38, of Virginia Beach unresponsive. The deputy immediately…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (VBSO) held a Promotion Ceremony today (April 3, 2025) at Virginia Beach City Hall, Building 1. Six deputy sheriffs with combined service totaling 87 years received promotions under Sheriff Rocky Holcomb.Sheriff Rocky Holcomb…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office (VBSO) K9s - Pablo, Apollo, and Boyka – officially have their own trading cards.Each glossy card, the size of regular baseball and football trading cards, features the K9 in full color with eye-popping, movie-poster-like…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – After a thorough investigation, the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU) arrested inmate Kareem Walter Ryer for stealing credit card information from the Internet and placing orders from the canteen, according to a CIU report.The report…