ABC STORE BURGLARY SUSPECT APPREHENDED WITHIN HOURS OF BREAK-IN IN VIRGINIA BEACH
On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at approximately 1:58 a.m., Emergency Communications received an alarm call for a burglar alarm at the VA ABC store located in the 400 block of 30th Street, near the oceanfront.
MPO C. S. Johnson of the Oceanfront Community Policing Squad responded to the alarm call. Once on scene, MPO Johnson discovered that the glass front door was smashed inward into the business by a large rock. Assist officers arrived on scene and helped MPO Johnson search the building for suspects. There was no one in the business. The store’s manager responded to the scene and confirmed that 3 bottles of liquor had been stolen and one bottle had been destroyed. MPO Johnson reviewed the store’s surveillance video and he immediately recognized the suspect in the video as someone he has been in contact with before at the oceanfront. MPO Johnson believed the suspect could be staying at an oceanfront hotel.
Shortly after 4:00 a.m., MPO Johnson and several assist officers responded to a hotel in the 2600 block of Atlantic Ave. The suspect was located and was wearing the same clothing as the person in the surveillance video. He was taken into custody and brought to the Second Precinct to be interviewed by a detective.
The suspect, Alexander James Donkin, 32, of Virginia Beach, was staying at a hotel in the 2600 block of Atlantic Ave. Donkin is charged with Burglary and is being held without bond in the Virginia Beach Correctional Center.
This case remains under investigation by the Virginia Beach Police Department’s Second Precinct Property Crimes Unit with Detective Irving Dewberry as the lead investigator.
MPO Adam L. Bernstein
Public Information Officer/ Spokesman
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Please see the attached NR in reference to a burglary that occurred this morning at an ABC store near the oceanfront. Awesome job by MPO Shawn Johnson for identifying and locating the suspect so quickly! Shawn has been assigned to the Oceanfront Community Policing Squad for several years and this goes to show he really interacts nightly with the thousands of citizens at the oceanfront. Even though there are tens of thousands of people in the oceanfront area, Shawn was able to view a video, immediately recognize the subject, and locate him quickly. Great police work Shawn!
Adam L. Bernstein
Public Information Officer/ Spokesman
Virginia Beach Police Department
