Surveillance Photo – NNPD

Newport News, Va. – Police are investigating after they say a customer in a wheelchair was robbed at a Newport News convenience store last week.

According to Newport News Police Spokesperson Harold Eley, it happened on Friday, February 1, 2013 shortly after 8 p.m. at the Mo’s Convenience Store, located on the corner of Warwick Boulevard and Old Courthouse Way.

Newport News Police have arrested and charged a 33-year old woman for allegedly threatening to burn down her parents' home.

According to Holly McPherson, spokeswoman for the Newport News Police Department, on Friday around 10 p.m. officers arrived at the 600 block of Dorene Place. The police came in reference to calls of threats to burn down the house. 

After arriving, the homeowners told the officers their daughter, Kisha Jackson, came to pick up her children, but was upset. The woman threatened to burn down the house and placed a full gas can on the lawn.

The woman's father told her to leave and she retrieved the gas can and left in her vehicle. The police say alcohol was a factor in this incident

Police charged Jackson, of the 500 block of Collinwood Place, with misdemeanor assault and threats to bomb\burn. According to McPherson, the police arrested Jackson at her home without incident.

Newport News police have charged a woman accused of leaving her four children home alone.

Neighbors say there has to be a mistake.

Four children, all under the age of seven – left home alone.

The youngest was just six months old.

Police say their mother, 24-year-old Shante Payne, left them on their own inside her apartment.

Newport News police were called to the home on Garden Drive after a neighbor walking by heard a child crying through an open door.

Officers say Payne came back 20 minutes later and told them she had only been gone a few minutes. A neighbor tells NewsChannel 3 she thinks this is all a big misunderstanding.

Police charged Payne with three counts of child neglect, and one count of contributing to the deliquency of a minor.

The children were not hurt, and are being cared for by relatives.