Peter Dujardin

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Peter Dujardin

Peter Dujardin has been a reporter at the 性视界传媒 for more than 20 years. He has mostly covered courts and criminal justice issues. That includes policing issues, and criminal and civil cases in both state and federal courts.

Some of the pipe bombs found at Brad Spafford’s Smithfield home in December 2024. (U.S. District Court, file)

Isle of Wight man found with over 150 explosives pleads guilty in homemade pipe bomb case

July 19, 2025 at 9:23 a.m.

Some of the bombs had handwriting 鈥� such as 鈥渓ethal鈥� and 鈥渃oncussion鈥� 鈥� on them.

Candles spell out the name of Williamsburg teen Aonesty Selby, who was found dead in a remote part of Isle of Wight County on Jan. 13, 2023. Sian Wilkerson/Staff file

More details emerge in 2023 slaying of 18-year-old Williamsburg student in Isle of Wight

July 18, 2025 at 6:21 p.m.

The new information came to light at a plea agreement hearing last week for the man accused of killing Aonesty Selby, who was a senior at Warhill High School.

Warwick Little League Senior Baseball All-Stars players practice hitting in an indoor facility Tuesday in Newport News. Player Matt Cook takes swings in the batting cage as Jordan Mullins waits his turn.(Kendall Warner/Staff)

Senior Little League team from Peninsula wins state tourney, heads to regionals

July 17, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

The Warwick Little League Senior Baseball All-Stars 鈥� made up mostly of 16-year-olds from Newport News 鈥� will compete in the Southeast Regional tournament starting Friday.

Tammy McGee holds a photo of her son Conner Guido for a portrait in Williamsburg on July 10. Tammy鈥檚 16-year-old son died in a car crash in 2019. (Billy Schuerman / Staff)

Mother of teen killed in York County crash has spearheaded new state safety laws 鈥� and she鈥檚 not done

July 15, 2025 at 11:05 a.m.

Tammy McGee has spearheaded four new Virginia state laws to passage since her son, Conner,聽was killed in a York County car crash nearly six years ago.

Police investigators and officials outside a home where a woman was found dead on Saturday afternoon, March 29, 2025. (Peter Dujardin/性视界传媒)

Newport News woman found inside home was bludgeoned to death, court documents reveal

July 11, 2025 at 7:45 p.m.

On March 29, Jerrice Wilkerson's sister found her body on the kitchen floor of her Southeast Newport News home. The 41-year-old had been bludgeoned to death. She also had been...

Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan shows a photo of the cell block where seven inmates were able to escape their cells, but were still contained in the day area, in an incident that occurred on July 2 during a press conference at the sheriff鈥檚 office on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Kendall Warner / The Virginian-Pilot)

After inmates pried open jail cells in lockdown, Newport News sheriff says they didn鈥檛 come close to escape

July 10, 2025 at 10:29 a.m.

The seven Newport News City Jail inmates who escaped from their cells last week did so to be disorderly 鈥� they weren't even close to leaving the jail, Sheriff Gabe...

The Newport News City Jail, at 224 26th Street, as shown on Oct. 1, 2021.

Unclear how several inmates, now charged with attempted escape, walked out of their jail cells in Newport News

July 9, 2025 at 3:33 p.m.

Seven Newport News City Jail inmates were arraigned on attempted escape charges this week after an incident in which several of them walked out of their jail cells.

Abigail Zwerner, the teacher who was shot at Richneck Elementary School last year, listens as one of her attorneys talks to reporter Peter Dujardin on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot)

Richneck teacher鈥檚 lawsuit against former assistant principal can move forward, judge rules

July 4, 2025 at 1:37 p.m.

Newport News Circuit Court Judge Matthew Hoffman tossed the claims against former Richneck Principal Briana Foster Newton and former School Superintendent George Parker III, who were never seen as directly...

A couple was found dead in this home in the Grafton section of York County on July 1, 2025. (Peter Dujardin / 性视界传媒)

Older couple found dead in York County murder-suicide

July 2, 2025 at 2:52 p.m.

The couple of a Grafton home were found by authorities with gunshot wounds and they determined the deaths to be the result of murder-suicide. Deputies say they both suffered significant...

Judge gavel and scale in court. Library with lot of books in background

Williamsburg man pleads guilty to sending email threatening to rape officer鈥檚 daughter

July 2, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.

Xavier Joseph Stafford, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.

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