For Immediate Release: May 3, 2023
Multiple Gang Members Arrested during Operation Royal Flush
LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Lynchburg Police Department arrested seven suspects in connection to a previously reported residential burglary where firearms and other valuables were stolen.
On February 13, 2022, just before 3:00 A.M., a resident in the 1600-block of Shaffer Street reported their home was broken into by multiple suspects. The resident reported several firearms and other valuables were stolen before the suspects fled in a vehicle. The vehicle was located a short time later and identified as having been reported stolen.
Over the next year plus, officers and detectives conducted an extensive investigation that utilized a variety of resources, investigative techniques, and partners to identify and obtain arrest warrants for each of the involved suspects.
On April 26, 2023 the Lynchburg Police Department, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Virginia State Police, conducted Operation Royal Flush. This operation resulted in the arrest of all seven suspects involved in the residential break-in. The following suspects were arrested and charged. The age of each suspect is listed as of the date of the offense:
- Bishop Arrington (18) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (17) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (17) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (17) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (17) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (16) of Lynchburg
- A juvenile male (15) of Lynchburg
- 18.2-91- Breaking and Entering
- 18.2-53.1 – Use of a firearm in the commission of a felony
- 18.2-95 – Grand larceny of firearm
- 18.2-95 – Grand larceny of property
- 18.2-46.2 – Criminal Street Gang Participation
- 18.2-137 B – Felony Property Damage
- Bishop Arrington
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- 18.2-46.2 – Criminal Street Gang Participation involving a Juvenile
- 18.2-46.3 – Criminal Street Gang Recruitment of a Juvenile
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A juvenile male
- 18.2-95 – Grand Larceny of a Vehicle
- 46.2-817 – Felony Eluding
The Lynchburg Police Department is committed to reducing violent crime in our community and aggressively pursuing criminal street gang members.