As part of Virginia Operation Ceasefire, a Chesapeake man was sentenced to 50 months in prison for illegally possessing multiple firearms as a convicted felon. On June 6, 2021, Christopher Lee Alexander, 34, was driving a vehicle in Chesapeake in the early morning hours when a Chesapeake police officer, who was responding to an unrelated matter, approached Alexander’s vehicle from behind. Mistakenly believing that the police car was attempting to pull his vehicle over, Alexander accelerated his vehicle to a high rate of speed in an attempt to flee. Alexander lost control of his vehicle, sideswiped a power pole and came to rest in a business’ parking lot. Alexander then attempted to flee the scene on foot. Chesapeake police officers were able to apprehend Alexander after a foot chase and, when they returned to the vehicle that the defendant was driving, they found two firearms in plain view laying on the driver’s side floorboard. Alexander admitted to police officers that he was attempting to flee because he knew that he was a convicted felon in possession of the firearms in the vehicle.