Tips to Crime Line in 2020 help solve nearly 300 cases

HAMPTON ROADS, VA – Tips received by the Crime Line in 2020 led to nearly 300 cases being solved in Hampton Roads.

You can see a breakdown from each board below. 

Chesapeake

  • 20 arrests
  • 473 tips received
  • $5,470 in reward money approved
  • Value of recovered property – $500
  • Value of recovered drugs – $2,500
  • Recovered currency – $5,600

Isle of Wight/Smithfield/Windsor

  • 62 tips received

Norfolk

  • 21 arrests
  • 726 tips received
  • $6,130 in reward money approved
  • Value of recovered drugs – $9,152

Portsmouth

  • 2 arrests
  • 341 tips received
  • $1,240 in reward money approved

Suffolk

  • 4 arrests
  • 172 tips received
  • $910 in reward money approved

Virginia Beach

  • 98 arrests
  • 1,019 tips received
  • $20,199 in reward money approved
  • Value of recovered property – $48,300
  • Value of recovered drugs – $6,7770
  • Recovered currency – $22,827

Virginia Peninsula (Gloucester County, Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, York County)

  • 65 arrests
  • 1,047 tips received
  • $16,815 in reward money approved
  • Value of recovered property – $11,528
  • Value of recovered drugs – $2,380
  • Firearms recovered – 12