VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators, Virginia’s outgoing attorney general announced Wednesday.
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- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators, Virginia’s outgoing attorney general announced Wednesday.
- Virginia Beach police serve a city of about 450,000 people along the state’s coast.
- Officers used fake reports purporting to be from the Virginia Department of Forensic Science at least five times during interrogations between 2016 and 2020, Herring’s office said.
- The bogus pieces of paper included a seal and letterhead from the state agency, the AG’s office said.
- The Virginia Beach City Council agreed to the changes on Tuesday, Herring said.