14 Years Later, Serial Rapist Busted For Alleged Assaults Of Teens In Virginia, Police Say
It took more than a decade, but a serial rapist in Virginia has been arrested for the sexual assaults of teenage girls back in 2008, authorities announced.
William Phelps IV, 33, was arrested and faces multiple charges following a 14-year investigation into multiple rapes in Norfolk, according to police investigators on Monday, Oct. 17.
Specifically, Phelps was charged with:
Rape;
Three counts of forcible sodomy;
Two counts of aggravated sexual battery;
Two counts of abduction;
Use of a firearm;
Wearing a mask in public.
According to investigators, at approximately 7 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2008…
VA Beach Man Sentenced To Over 25 Years In Prison For Wife's 2018 Murder
A Virginia Beach man was sentenced to over 25 years in prison on August 1 for his wife's 2018 murder, officials said.In July of 2018, Lamont Johnson, 45, pushed Bellamy Gamboa, the mother of his 20-month-old twins, down the stairs during a fight about rent, according to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney's Office.
He fell down the stairs after her, with one of his young twins in his arms, and proceeded to suffocate Gamboa to death while the children watched, officials said.
He placed her body, wrapped in a comforter, in a Chesapeake dumpster and repeatedly left the twins home alo…
