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Chesterfield couple sentenced for forced child labor at Robious Road gas station
The defendants forced the victim to clean, cook, stock shelves and handle the cash register and store records through coercion and physical abuse. They also forced him to sleep in the back of the store for several days at a time, limited his access to food, refused to provide medical care or education and watched him with surveillance equipment in the store and in their home.
VIDEO: Previously-withheld body camera footage shows Chesterfield officer shooting, killing man in 2023
Body camera footage of an officer with the Chesterfield County Police Department fatally shooting 34-year-old Charles Byers in July 2023 has been made available through the court system.
31-year-old man charged in connection to crash that killed mother of two in Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County Police have charged a driver in connection to a crash that killed a wife and mother who was on a run at the intersection of Lucks Lane and Spirea Road on Friday, April 26.
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity
Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies. On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion rocked the Bright Hope Coal Pits in Chesterfield County, Virginia, about 18 miles from the Richmond Railroad. The...
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