Virginia Beach, Virginia. On Dec. 30, Virginia Beach and Norfolk police worked together and used license plate scanner technology to arrest a suspect less than an hour after a deadly gunshot.
Virginia Beach Emergency Communications was notified of many shootings at a company located in the 5400 block of Virginia Beach Boulevard at 12:03 p.m. Lequan Cherry, 26, of Norfolk, was discovered deceased at the site by responding police.
The person and the car in question were promptly identified by police, who also published a description of them. Investigators tracked out sites where the suspect’s vehicle had been spotted by searching the license plate reader database through the Virginia Beach Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC).
At one of these sites, Norfolk police found the car and made an attempt at a traffic stop. Jeremiah Quinones, a 22-year-old Norfolk resident, was the driver who escaped but was caught after a short chase into Virginia Beach.
Quinones was accused of two charges of using a firearm in the conduct of a felony, first-degree murder, and malicious injury. Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate stated that this arrest highlights the critical role technology plays in contemporary policing.
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