PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — In just six days, the $1 million budgeted for Virginia’s witness protection program kicks in. The Commonwealth has had a program on the books since 1994, but never the funding ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Tuesday marked two years since the deadly shooting outside Chicho’s Pizza Backstage in Downtown Norfolk. Sierra Jenkins, Malik Harris and Marquel Andrews died in the shooting. Two ...

NORFOLK, Va. — News 3 has been investigating the lack of funds to protect witnesses in the state of Virginia for more than two years now. Many times, a witness of a crime wants to cooperate with law ...

More than 7,500 witnesses and their families have been relocated over the years. Oct. 26, 2007 — -- Wearing glasses and a mock turtleneck, his temples graying, Carmine Sessa looked more like a ...

A highly-secretive program, the United States Federal Witness Protection Program protects witnesses before, during, and after a criminal trial. Also called the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), the ...

A bipartisan General Assembly took an important step to fight crime in our communities last year by finally funding a witness protection program in Virginia. The budget agreement approved in September ...

Jurors say John T. Ambrose leaked secrets about witness in Chicago mob investigation. CHICAGO — A deputy U.S. marshal was convicted Tuesday of violating the secrecy of the federal government’s witness ...