On a cold January night in 1994, Newport News Police Officer Steven Robert Rutherford, a 28-year-old male, embarked on a dangerous undercover assignment that would tragically be his last. He was posing as a pizza delivery driver in an attempt to put a stop to a series of robberies that had been plaguing local delivery people. This particular sting operation, however, was later criticized as being poorly planned and hastily executed. While carrying out the ruse in the area of Thorncliff Drive, Of
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