Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Police Execute Search Warrants in Connection with Missing UVA Student Hannah Graham

NBC-29 in Charlottesville reports that police are searching a car and apartment in Charlottesville.

UPDATE 12 p.m.: A Charlottesville TV station reports that three people were at home at the apartment police are searching Friday in connection with the disappearance of Hannah Graham.

The Charlottesville police chief called the search the most productive lead they’ve had so far, CBS-19 reported. The search came in response to a tip given to police last night, he said.

Police plan to search for evidence at the apartment for the next few hours.

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Could there be a break in the search for missing UVA student Hannah Graham? Graham, a graduate of West Potomac High School in Fairfax County, disappeared in Charlottesville nearly a week ago.

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Officers from the Charlottesville Police Department are wrapping police tape around an apartment complex in Charlottesville Friday morning, executing a search warrant, according to a report by NBC-29 and other news outlets including ABC News.

The apartment complex is 3.2 miles from where she was last seen on surveillance video early Saturday morning in downtown Charlottesville.

The TV station reports that the name of the apartment building is the Hessian Hills Apartments. Police are reportedly waiting for a warrant to arrive before beginning a search of an apartment; a car was taken away from the scene, reportedly to be thoroughly searched.

The time on the search warrant was 5:45 a.m., but police were still on the scene Friday morning waiting for the warrant, the TV station said.

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