CAPE CHARLES, Va.— Cape Charles police responded to 126 calls for service within town limits in April, according to a monthly report released by the department.
Officers also handled 10 calls for service outside of Cape Charles, assisting the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office seven times and the Virginia State Police three times.
The department reported five arrests during the month, including charges for accessory before and after the fact of first-degree murder, obstruction of justice, public intoxication, and driving with a revoked license for alcohol-related offenses.
Officers issued 22 traffic summonses, 14 parking tickets, and conducted 108 building checks. Officers also logged 44 hours of foot patrol and 21 hours of Bay Creek patrol.
All officers completed security and privacy training and renewed their Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN) certification as part of their ongoing professional development.
Wow. Is someone finally doing their job? Or is someone getting scared they might lose their job so they are stepping up their game? I see a longtime officer just left and there’s new ones coming in. Perhaps these new officers are doing their job better than the old one. #NewLineup
That long time officer was fired. Waiting for some kind of announcement but not holding my breath.
Bet he got some sort of severance lackage. Wonder where that money came from. Probably signed an NDA also because he knows too much.
Soft!
Maybe one should ask, how many officers CC has and divide that number against the total crimes/incidents. Then divided that number with how many weeks there are in the month. For example: 22 traffic tickets divided by 5 police officers equals what? Divide that number by the weeks in a month! Do that with each category. Soft! Now you have the performance of those officers.
However! If the chief of police is sending officers to radar enforcement classes shouldn’t those officers preform more than 1 ticket a week? Not very cost effective now is it?
Sending officers to NCIC re-cert, is basic training. Way to go chief!
Have you ever noticed there are no drug charges ever listed or how many assists other agencies help CC police?
It’s easy to toot your own horn when you are writing your own statics.
What about the embezzlement charges? Or the political games being played by government officials?
Maybe, just maybe the officer got tired of the political games. Look deeper into the police dept./ town council.
It’s just a thought?
I’m 100 percent with you there. Speaking of embezzlement, let’s remind everyone about the man working for the town that stole 250,000 plus dollars from the pentagon and got a slap on the hand for it. Then got a job with cape charles, got fired from his position, and rehired in another position. There’s a clue in my name.
Something very real and very serious is happening in our community. And it’s not just political dysfunction. It’s a system creeping in quietly, bound by intimidation, shame, fear, and silence.
I don’t trust the new town manager, Rick K (with all due respect). After reading about what happened in his last town in Colorado, I was struck by the similarities. There was a mass exodus of town employees — abrupt enough to give anyone whiplash. People who had served for a long time abruptly resigned at the end of 2024, and no one knows why. No one is speaking. No one received severance – except Rick, who walked away with half a year’s salary and continued benefits.
You can read a lot between the lines — in how people spoke, in the short, guarded statements from staff who left, and in Rick’s carefully crafted quotes in the press. The silence and lack of transparency rang like an alarm bell in my spirit. It was said that he would throw people under the bus or pit people against each other. I don’t believe those employees were “insubordinate” for no reason – perhaps they felt threatened. It appeared like he came with a purpose — not to serve the citizens, but to clean house. Use dirt as leverage?
Their town, like ours, is under pressure to develop. Rules are being changed. The all-too-common “workforce housing” cry from local leaders. The short-term rental distraction (I mean discussion). In Georgetown, land once set aside for a future school was suddenly changed for housing development. Citizens are being shut out.
Sound familiar?
This confusion and havoc creates distrust — and citizens deserve to know what’s going on. Who is really running the show, and why? It feels like a noose tightening around anyone who tries to serve the public honestly. Instead, they’re forced to serve another agenda — through bribes, blackmail, fear, shame, and chaos.
It’s a slow robbery of a town’s integrity, and those who see it happening are often too scared, isolated, or threatened to speak up. Some are held hostage by their own past mistakes — mistakes now being used against them as leverage.
To anyone in public service who feels trapped:
You are not alone. You are not beyond grace. If fear, shame, or silence are keeping you in chains – pray to God.. Ask for courage. Ask for forgiveness. Ask for strength.
Sounds like a Nancy Drew mystery! Pure fiction backed with zero facts.
with respects, i dont know about that. i have unfortunately been thrust into engagement with several parties in this town and one thing is 100% certain – something stinks. either someone somewhere is telling people what to do, or Cape Charles is a cesspool of corruption where the good ole boys get to do what they want and everyone else gets to pound salt. unfortunately nothing is going to change. the town meetings i have attended are sparsly attended. until we get people standing on the 500 corner of tazwell demanding change, they will keep doing what they’re doing.
You wrote, “i have unfortunately been thrust into engagement with several parties in this town and one thing is 100% certain – something stinks.” With respects, what does that even mean? I stand by my Nancy Drew comment and up you two Hardy Boys short stories.
Here, I’ll help. That means “although not desired, I have had to interact with the Town government and a couple employees lately. It does not appear that the parties to these interactions have the same integrity as do similar interactions i have had every where else in the world.” Does that help?