Virginia Police Address Mass Kidnappings Rumors, Amid Reports of Suspicious Ice Cream Truck Spottings
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Social media is buzzing with concern over reports of missing children throughout Virginia, and a recent trend has exacerbated these fears: videos of ice cream trucks supposedly operating past midnight.

One TikTok video posted by user @haleyybaylee showed an ice cream truck driving slowly down a dimly lit street at 1:23 a.m. The overlay text reads:

“ok who’s creepy idea was an ice cream truck at 1:23am”

The video went viral, gathering over 196,000 likes, igniting intense discussion in the comments section. While some viewers considered the situation odd but harmless, others tied it to rising fears following reports about missing children in the area.

Chris Brown, the singer-songwriter hailing from Tappahannock, Virginia, recently used Instagram to highlight viral social media posts claiming a surge in child abductions in his home state.

The 36-year-old father of three shared the following message to his Instagram Story:

“Am I the only one concerned about all these kids going missing in VIRGINIA?”

“Parents, make sure y’all keeping an eye on y’all children. Please.”

In response to these concerns, Virginia State Police addressed the rumors of a large number of missing children in the Commonwealth. They confirmed there is no evidence supporting mass abductions or ongoing investigations into such incidents.

The Virginia State Police clarified that, unlike many other states, it submits every missing child case in Virginia to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). As a result, there are more Virginia cases listed on the NCMEC website compared to other states, which often rely on their own platforms to track missing reports.

Virginia does this to centralize missing children’s cases so they can all be reviewed in one location.

John Bischoff, Vice President of the Missing Children Division at NCMEC, referenced the online rumors.

“When that information gets out into the public, as false as it may be, it blossoms, and other people latch on to it.”

Bischoff noted that the recent week has triggered a wave of misinformation, causing an increase in calls to both VSP and the NCMEC call center, as reported by WTOP.

Bischoff offered reassurance that, “They’re not investigating anything mass-related or anything like that. Here in the state of Virginia, if we were, we would absolutely sound the alarm for a huge public outcry, but that’s not the case.

“What we do have are missing children. Each and every day, we deal with missing child cases, and we need the public’s help in finding those missing children.”

By law, local agencies must report cases of missing children to Virginia State Police within two hours of receiving a report.

Anecdotally, the majority of missing children are reportedly runaways, and most return shortly after being reported.

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