Lynchburg man charged again for breaking into house

LYNCHBURG -- A former Liberty University administrator has been arrested for a second time this month and charged with breaking into a house.

Scott Alan Ray, 43, of Lynchburg, was arrested on an outstanding warrant Monday and charged with breaking and entering, said Capt. Brandon Zuidema, of the Lynchburg Police Department.

The warrant was issued last week following an investigation into an Aug. 20 break-in, Zuidema said. Ray is being held in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail without bond. His trial date has not been set.

Ray was arrested Sept. 15 and charged with burglary and drug possession related to a Campbell County case and was released on a $2,500 secured bond.

He was indicted in that case on four counts of statutory burglary between November 2008 and Sept. 4, and one count of possession of a Schedule I or II drug. The four counts involve four different homes, Capt. L.T. Guthrie of the Campbell County Sheriff's Office said in a previous interview.

In the Campbell County case, a search warrant filed in Lynchburg said surveillance video from a house on Spring Oaks Drive from Sept. 4 shows a man entering the house and taking two bottles of painkillers before leaving.

A news release issued by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office this month stated an investigator recognized the man from a 2005 arrest on a similar offense.

Ray was Liberty University's director of convocations until this month.

He was convicted in 2006 of a 2005 burglary, according to court records.

Carrie J. Sidener is a staff writer for The News & Advance in Lynchburg.