Due to recent Federal Communications Commission regulations, ViaPath, the Virginia Beach jail’s phone/tablet provider, has made necessary adjustments to comply with the new regulations and implemented changes to the inmates’ tablets and phone accounts. This includes a reduction in rates. Services are now categorized as two separate accounts: "regulated" (phone and video visits) and "non-regulated" (movies, games and messaging). This change requires friends and family to deposit funds into two separate accounts. Full details at vbso.net/news .
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (VBSO) today graduated the first Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) class in a decade, with 32 students at Star of the Sea Catholic School successfully completing the curriculum.As a private institution, Star of the Sea is the…
Here at the VBSO, we know how important it is for you to keep in touch with your incarcerated loved ones.Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implemented new regulations to cap the cost of phone and video calls for incarcerated people and their families, reducing rates…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (April 22, 2025) – The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office (VBSO) is hosting an all-day opening Hiring Event for individuals interested in expediting the application and testing process to become a deputy sheriff. The event will be on Saturday, April 26, starting at 8 a.m. at the…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - An inmate at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center died by suicide Sunday evening.While conducting a routine security check at 6:03 p.m. on April 6, 2025, a deputy sheriff found Michael “Norah” Horwitz, 38, of Virginia Beach unresponsive. The deputy immediately…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (VBSO) held a Promotion Ceremony today (April 3, 2025) at Virginia Beach City Hall, Building 1. Six deputy sheriffs with combined service totaling 87 years received promotions under Sheriff Rocky Holcomb.Sheriff Rocky Holcomb kept…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office (VBSO) K9s - Pablo, Apollo, and Boyka – officially have their own trading cards.Each glossy card, the size of regular baseball and football trading cards, features the K9 in full color with eye-popping, movie-poster-like…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – After a thorough investigation, the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU) arrested inmate Kareem Walter Ryer for stealing credit card information from the Internet and placing orders from the canteen, according to a CIU report.The report…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Sheriff Rocky Holcomb today announced a comprehensive series of changes to Virginia Beach Correctional Center (VBCC) policies, procedures and operations following the June 2024 death of former inmate Rolin Hill. Holcomb and the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office (VBSO)…