diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1a2755d..27543e5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
     <groupId>ai.preferred</groupId>
     <artifactId>venom</artifactId>
-    <version>4.1.3</version>
+    <version>4.1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/Crawler.java b/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/Crawler.java
index 8782a83..05f1376 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/Crawler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/Crawler.java
@@ -16,10 +16,7 @@
 
 package ai.preferred.venom;
 
-import ai.preferred.venom.fetcher.AsyncFetcher;
-import ai.preferred.venom.fetcher.Callback;
-import ai.preferred.venom.fetcher.Fetcher;
-import ai.preferred.venom.fetcher.StopCodeException;
+import ai.preferred.venom.fetcher.*;
 import ai.preferred.venom.job.AbstractQueueScheduler;
 import ai.preferred.venom.job.Job;
 import ai.preferred.venom.job.PriorityQueueScheduler;
@@ -28,6 +25,7 @@
 import ai.preferred.venom.request.Request;
 import ai.preferred.venom.response.Response;
 import ai.preferred.venom.response.VResponse;
+import ai.preferred.venom.validator.Validator;
 import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -706,7 +704,8 @@ public void completed(final Request request, final Response response) {
     public void failed(final Request request, final Exception ex) {
       crawler.connections.release();
       crawler.threadPool.execute(() -> {
-        if (ex instanceof StopCodeException) {
+        if (ex instanceof StopCodeException
+            || (ex instanceof ValidationException && ((ValidationException) ex).getStatus() == Validator.Status.STOP)) {
           crawler.pendingJobs.remove(job);
         } else {
           synchronized (crawler.pendingJobs) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/fetcher/AsyncResponseConsumer.java b/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/fetcher/AsyncResponseConsumer.java
index 9963e2e..e053b15 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/fetcher/AsyncResponseConsumer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ai/preferred/venom/fetcher/AsyncResponseConsumer.java
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ protected final BaseResponse buildResult(final HttpContext context) throws Excep
     }
 
     if (status == Validator.Status.STOP) {
-      throw new StopCodeException(statusCode, "Validator stopped the request.");
+      throw new ValidationException(status, response, "Validator stopped the request.");
     } else if (status != Validator.Status.VALID) {
       throw new ValidationException(status, response, "Invalid response.");
     }