Name: To Catch a Predator
Start: 2025-05-29T11:00:00-0400
End: 2025-05-29T12:15:00-0400

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT

Richmond’s Fan Neighborhood sits just west of the City’s center and is one of Richmond’s most diverse neighborhoods. The Fan is home to many Virginia Commonwealth University students, young professionals, and families. From 2014 to 2018, a man named Justin Harvey made this community his preying ground, causing many people to feel uneasy. Harvey put fear into many young women, most between 19 and 24 years old, in the one place they should feel the safest: their homes. Both the Richmond Police Department and VCU Police Department worked tirelessly over this timeframe to identify a man who was reported to have committed numerous burglaries, assaults, and rapes. Eventually, in September 2018, detectives from both agencies and prosecutors from the Richmond Commonwealth Attorney’s Office were able to work together to identify and arrest Harvey. Through the diligent work between these three agencies, Harvey was connected to 10 different cases. Come along as detectives and prosecutors detail how the use of technology, cell phone data, and physical evidence earned Harvey over 200 years in the Virginia Department of Corrections.

Speakers

Joshua Boyles

Joshua Boyles has been a prosecutor for 18 years—first in Westmoreland County for five years, then as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond since 2012. He is a member of the office’s Violent Crime Team.

Sarah Heller

City of Richmond Commonwealth Attorney’s Office

Sarah Heller has been a prosecutor in the Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office for 15 years. She is a supervisor on the Violent Crime Team and provides training to prosecutors and police officers in a variety of programs and schools around the state.

Ben Neifeld

Richmond Police Department

Benjamin Neifeld has been with the Richmond Police Department for 17 years. He has worked in patrol, a Fourth Precinct street crimes unit, Aggravated Assault, and Sex Crimes, and is currently assigned to Homicide.

Lee Olds

Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department

Lee Olds has been with the VCU Police Department for 13 years. The majority of his career has been spent in an investigative role for various types of crime, including narcotics distribution, violent crime, and fraud. He is currently tasked with commanding a patrol platoon... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Latham ABC

Keynote

2025 Conference on Violent Crime

Joshua Boyles

Sarah Heller

Ben Neifeld

Lee Olds

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