High-speed chase in Fauquier lands Norfolk man in hospital … and then jail

A 22-year-old Norfolk man is being held without bond in Fauquier County following a high-speed chase.

On Monday afternoon, a license plate reader, or LPR, south of Warrenton sent out an alert for a reported stolen vehicle from Virginia Beach, according to the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office.

A Fauquier deputy then observed the vehicle passing through Warrenton on the Eastern Bypass. When the deputy and a colleague initiated a traffic stop, the driver of the vehicle refused to stop, instead accelerating onto the shoulder to pass cars, authorities said…

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