Club Velvet owner Sam Moore pleaded guilty three misdemeanor counts related to having sex with a minor and an 18-year-old woman. Moore will receive a suspended sentence on two of the counts, and on the third count, having sex with someone between 15 and 17, sentencing has been set for June 26. [via]

Police are looking for three men they say beat and robbed a man sitting outside of American Tobacco at about 2:30AM on May 15th. [via]

Club Velvet owner Samuel Moore, charged with a felony for allegedly filming himself having sex with a 17-year-old from video snagged during a February raid on the strip club, “argued today that he cannot be prosecuted for having sex with a minor and filming it because the girl was married and two months shy of her 18th birthday”. [via]

Richmond Police are looking for suspects after a man was stabbed at around 1:30AM this morning on Belle Isle. The stabbee was found having been stabbed several times in his leg; his injuries are not considered life-threatening. [via]

Michael E. Clark, 22, was charged with property destruction last Tuesday after being caught tagging “LAST” onto the I-95 overpass above East Franklin Street early this past Tuesday. The article in the RTD says that “police said they found evidence of two other tags at Clark’s residence and charged him with two additional counts of property destruction”; a short walk down Franklin Street between 18th and 23rd reveals a wealth of his work…

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Originally due to appear in court today on two misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 44-year-old Club Velvet owner Sam Moore will instead be charged with a felony for allegedly filming himself having sex with a 17-year-old minor on February 20th. [via]

A reader with a good memory reminded us how Velvet’s Sam Moore earned his teardrop tattoo back in 1998: Moore initially faced murder charges (later reduced to manslaughter) in the fatal stabbing of Stephen Hendricks in a steetfight that erupted at 18th and Main on May 25, 1998.

Club Velvet owner Sam Moore was arrested in a late-night raid. Representatives from the Richmond Police Department, the IRS, the Alcoholic and Beverage Control, & the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were part of the raid. CBS6 is reporting that this was “the result of a lengthy investigation involving illicit activities inside Club Velvet and on the behalf of Club Velvet”, and that Moore was arrested on outstanding warrants unrelated to the raid. [via]

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There has been a leadership change at First Precinct. The new commander is Paul Ronca and the new Sector 111 lieutenant is James (JJ) Laino. Lieutenant Emmett William remains in place for Sector 112.

A man suspected in the robbery of the CVS Pharmacy at 25th and Main Streets last week has also been linked to the Dec.13 killing of Anna Callear-Kirby in Chesterfield and was found overdosed in a rooming house at 23rd and T Streets at about 4PM yesterday. Police report that the man may also have been responsible for a recent armed robbery and assault at a bank in Richmond. [via]

Changes at one of our sister sites had killed the neighborhood crime map for a few days there, but it’s all back now.

Escaped convict Alonzo Logan is believed to be in the east end of Church Hill, and was spotted on Jennie Scher Road in Fulton Bottom very early this morning. Logan was serving a 44-year sentence for several counts of grand larceny, breaking and entering, and drug and weapon charges.

We’ve added a map of the crime in the area. Basically just don’t leave stuff in your car; it’s the red and yellow markers that you have to worry about…

nbc12 is reporting that former Richmond restaurateur Michael Ripp was cleared of embezzlement charges yesterday. Ripp, the owner of 3 Shockoe Bottom restaurants at the time (Havana 59, City Bar and Rotisserie and O’Brienstein’s Pub & Delicatessen), had been accused of misusing thousands of dollars in meal taxes owed to the city.