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    <title>Crime News for Richmond Times-Dispatch</title>
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          <title>Three charged in robberies in Fan, VCU area</title>
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Richmond police have several suspects in one set of robberies in the Fan District and neighborhoods around Virginia Commonwealth University, with three people in custody and two more possibly facing indictment on robbery charges next month. Police have charged two men from Henrico County and one from the city&#8217;s East End in six armed robberies in the Fan, Oregon Hill and Carver neighborhoods from late August through mid-September. They said two other suspects may have been involved in the robberies, which were carried out with a driver waiting nearby in a car.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Attorney general says sniper showed no mental illness</title>
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The Virginia attorney general&#8217;s office said yesterday that there is no evidence John Allen Muhammad&#8217;s lawyers had reason to think he was mentally ill when he asked to represent himself at his 2003 trial. To the contrary, Muhammad demonstrated his competence to stand trial, &#8220;to everyone in the courtroom,&#8220; the attorney general&#8217;s office said in its response to an appeal filed by Muhammad with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sentencing delayed for police impersonator in Henrico</title>
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Moving testimony from teachers, family and friends&#8212;and an assist from the prosecution&#8212;may have kept a police impersonator found guilty of attempted abduction out of prison. In an unusual court maneuver, Henrico County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Wade A. Kizer asked yesterday for a halt in a sentencing hearing that could have resulted in a mandatory, three-year prison sentence against Shay Cameron Mann.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mechanicsville doctor gets year in prescription, tax case</title>
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Mechanicsville doctor Torino R. &#8220;Tee&#8221; Jennings was sentenced to a year and one day in prison yesterday for writing tens of thousands of prescriptions over the Internet for people he never met or examined and failing to pay taxes on his earnings. Jennings, 36, a former staff physician at Retreat Doctors&#8217; Hospital, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston, where he pleaded guilty in July to seven counts of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and four counts of tax evasion. He faced a maximum prison term of 27 years and $1.7 million in fines.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hanover doctor sentenced to federal prison</title>
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Mechanicsville doctor Torino R. Jennings was sentenced to a year and one day in prison today for writing for writing tens of thousands of prescriptions over the Internet for people he never met or examined and failing to pay taxes on his earnings. Jennings, 36, a former staff physician at Retreat Doctors&#8217; Hospital, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston, where he pleaded guilty in July to seven counts of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and four counts of tax evasion.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:47:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police impersonator case on hold</title>
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Henrico County&#8217;s chief prosecutor agreed this morning to reconsider a case against a man found guilty in August of impersonating a police officer and attempted abduction. Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Wade Kizer said after a closed hearing in a judge&#8217;s chambers that he may seek to alter convictions against Shay Cameron Mann. Retired Circuit Judge James E. Kulp ordered that a sentencing hearing be continued until Nov. 24 to give Kizer and Mann&#8217;s defense lawyer time to explore whether there is a process by which Mann&#8217;s convictions can be amended.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:40:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Details surface on murder weapons in Farmville slayings</title>
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A ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul were used to bludgeon four people found dead inside a Longwood University professor&#8217;s home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed yesterday.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Indictments reveal details in Farmville slayings</title>
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Authorities believe two weapons&#8212;a ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul&#8212;were used to bludgeon four people to death inside a Longwood University professor&#8217;s home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed yesterday. Also yesterday, Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III of Castro Valley, Calif., was served with indictments on six counts of capital murder in the bludgeoning deaths of professor Debra S. Kelley, 53; her estranged husband, Mark Niederbrock, 50; their daughter, Emma Niederbrock, 16; and Melanie Wells, 18, Emma&#8217;s friend from Inwood, W.Va. All four were discovered dead Sept. 18 in Kelley&#8217;s Farmville home.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Suspect in 4 N.C. slayings arrested at motel in Henry</title>
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A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early Monday in Virginia, police said. Police in Mount Airy, N.C., said Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was arrested without incident at a motel in Henry County, about 50 miles northeast of Mount Airy near the state line. He was charged with four counts of murder.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Prince William teens&#8217; death believed to be suicide</title>
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Prince William County police say two Forest Park High School students who died in Triangle on Monday night agreed to commit suicide. Bob Patrick found his 17-year-old daughter, Desiree, and 18-year-old Quirinius S. &#8220;Rain&#8221; Williams, dead Monday evening in her bedroom. Police say both suffered gunshot wounds, police said. Patrick found them when he returned to his home about 5 p.m.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petition backs Hanover teen charged in ax attack</title>
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A 16-year-old Hanover County student who is charged with attacking a fellow student with an ax is getting support from an online petition. Friends of Omar has formed to persuade Hanover prosecutors not to try Omar K. Abdelaal as an adult. Abdelaal was arrested Oct. 23 outside a Mechanicsville farm-supply store, where police say he struck a fellow Lee-Davis High School student with an ax, severely wounding the 15-year-old. The victim needed more than 100 stitches to repair damage to his face from a single blow, authorities said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Henrico man arrested in connection with bank robbery</title>
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A Henrico County man is facing a Dec. 8 court appearance after his arrest on a bank robbery charge last week. A search warrant indicates that Henrico police were able to track Stefan R. Etz, 47, to his home in the 8500 block of Weldon Drive about six blocks from the bank because of a telltale description from witnesses. They told police that the robbery Friday at 1 p.m. was carried out by a man who fled on an orange-and-white motor scooter with a Jesus sticker, who was about 5-foot-4 and who had a bushy beard.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>North Richmond shooting probed; 4 were wounded</title>
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Richmond police say they are still investigating the circumstances of a North Richmond shooting that left four people wounded just after midnight Saturday, with at least one victim suffering life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred at a gathering in a residence in the 3000 block of Barton Avenue. Two victims, one with life-threatening injuries, were taken from there to VCU Medical Center, police said in a news release.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ex&#45;deacon gets 33 years for Chesterfield rape</title>
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A young woman who was raped at gunpoint last year by a local church official benevolently forgave her attacker yesterday shortly before he was sentenced to 33 years in prison. But Oscar A. Rivera-Licona, 35, rebuffed his victim&#8217;s offer of absolution. Instead, the former head deacon of the Richmond Evangelistic Center of Seventh-day Adventist questioned the veracity of the woman he raped despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>North Richmond shooting probed; 4 were wounded</title>
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Richmond police say they are still investigating the circumstances of a North Richmond shooting that left four people wounded just after midnight Sunday, with at least one victim suffering life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred at a gathering in a residence in the 3000 block of Barton Avenue. Two victims, one with life-threatening injuries, were taken from there to VCU Medical Center, police said in a news release.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Dale City girls report rape after trick&#45;or&#45;treating</title>
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DALE CITY&#8212;Two teenage girls reported being abducted and raped after trick-or-treating Saturday. About 9:10 p.m., police were called to investigate the abduction of three teenage girls. The victims told police they were walking in the area of Glendale Plaza in the 4300 block of Dale Boulevard after trick-or-treating, Prince William County police spokeswoman Erika Hernandez said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Four shot, wounded in North Richmond</title>
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Richmond police say this morning that four people were shot just after midnight in North Richmond, and at least one victim has life-threatening injuries.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:25:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: State Police identify man in fatal crash on Chippenham Parkway</title>
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A motorcyclist was killed after he wrecked on the Chippenham Parkway while being pursued by Virginia State Police, authorities said early today.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:39:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond police investigate shooting in Whitcomb Court</title>
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Richmond police are investigating a shooting last night in the Whitcomb Court public housing complex. 
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Victim&#8217;s father witnesses aftermath of second crime</title>
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Michael Anthony Brewton stepped off the bus last night within a block from where his son was fatally stabbed two days before, only to stumble onto the aftermath of another violent crime. A few minutes before Brewton got off the bus in downtown Richmond, a 19-year-old man was punched and robbed shortly before 7 p.m. outside the old Central National Bank building at 219 E. Broad St. on the south side of Broad, police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man shot, wounded in Whitcomb Court</title>
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Richmond police are investigating a shooting last night in the Whitcomb Court public-housing complex. A man in his 20s was walking in the 2300 block of Ambrose Street about 9 p.m. when a shot fired from a vehicle hit him in the torso. He was taken to VCU Medical Center with injuries described as life-threatening. No arrest was immediately made.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hanover issues 13 summonses at weekend DUI checkpoint</title>
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Hanover County authorities say they had to end a DUI checkpoint early today because four of the five deputies made arrests, leaving too few resources to continue.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:26:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Officers to monitor sex offenders on Halloween</title>
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There will be no tricks, treats or Halloween parties this year for many of Virginia&#8217;s convicted sex criminals. Officers with the Virginia Department of Corrections and the Virginia State Police are teaming up again to make sure registered sex offenders who are under state supervision won&#8217;t cause any harm to young ghouls and goblins.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:08 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jury convicts Hanover man of involuntary manslaughter</title>
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A Hanover County man once facing life in prison on a charge of murdering his longtime girlfriend will serve no more than 10 years. A Hanover jury last night found Derek E. Burkhead, 26, guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a two-day trial. When the verdict from the eight-woman, four-man jury was read at 9:20 last night, Burkhead appeared numb and speechless. Another jury eight months ago found him guilty of second-degree murder in the same case and recommended a 25-year sentence. That verdict was stricken because of a procedural error, resulting in the third mistrial of the case.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Middlesex man gets 20 years for distributing methadone</title>
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A Middlesex County man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for distribution of methadone, in one case to a man who died of an overdose as a result. Taylor Drew Munson, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne under the terms of a plea agreement. He admitted distributing liquid methadone prescribed for his own use from April 2008 to March 2009.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sentencing delayed in federal child&#45;porn case</title>
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A federal judge in Richmond delayed sentencing in a local child-pornography case yesterday, concerned about the rationale behind the sentencing guidelines in such cases. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne reset yesterday&#8217;s scheduled sentencing of James Turner Yager, 31, to Dec. 4. Yager, of Chesterfield County, was convicted twice this decade of distribution of child pornography, in 2001 and in July.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man fatally stabbed in downtown Richmond</title>
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Richmond police charged a man with murder last night in the fatal daylight stabbing of another man on a busy commercial strip in downtown Richmond. They identified the suspect as Desean Q. Trent, 27.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hanover man&#8217;s murder trial begins yet again</title>
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Derek Edward Burkhead&#8217;s road to innocence or prison has been stymied by fainting spells, three mistrials and, yesterday, by an early morning jail cell fight. But the murder defendant appeared for trial yesterday with a swollen jaw, a new defense lawyer and a renewed plea of not guilty. &#8220;He says he&#8217;s ready to proceed,&#8220; attorney John Honey said of his client yesterday morning before a clerk asked for Burkhead&#8217;s pleas to a second-degree murder charge and felony use of a firearm.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Crime log for Oct. 29</title>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. CHESTERFIELD POLICE 7200 block of Andersons Forge, between 10:30 p.m. Oct. 25 and 7 p.m. Oct. 26, someone stole money and firearms. 2500 block of Gwynn Avenue, between 3 a.m. Oct. 22 and 10 a.m. Oct. 26, stolen electronics.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mother and daughter convicted in Henrico wreck</title>
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A Henrico County mother and her daughter were convicted Wednesday of misdemeanors stemming from a Broad Street wreck that sent an unrestrained 2-year-old through the driver&#8217;s-side window. Latori Carter, 19, of the 7000 block of Miami Avenue and her mother, Tracy Carter, 39, of the 8200 block of Elswick Lane, received no jail time in a case that saw multiple felony charges reduced or dismissed.           ]]></description>
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Authorities arrested a man they say tried to kill himself by setting fire to a house in Richmond&#8217;s East End, only to be rescued by firefighters from the burning building. Authorities charged David Junious McLean Jr., 34, with arson after the fire that started late Wednesday night in the 1200 block of North 26th Street. The blaze was reported at 11:43 p.m. When the first fire trucks arrived, the two-story house was ablaze.           ]]></description>
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Authorities arrested a man they say tried to kill himself by setting fire to a house in Richmond&#8217;s East End, only to be rescued by firefighters from the burning building.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:23:27 EST</pubDate>
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One of nine people charged in the fatal shooting of a teenager at a Sweet 16 party in Caroline County has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:11:13 EST</pubDate>
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A Henrico County mother and her daughter have been convicted of misdemeanors stemming from a Broad Street wreck that sent an unrestrained 2-year-old through the driver&#8217;s-side window.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:54:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man gets 3 years in Henrico bank robbery</title>
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The request for help from the public in solving a Henrico County bank robbery May 4 produced a flurry of tips. After all, the man pictured robbing First Community Bank in the 900 block of North Parham Road was familiar to hundreds of people. Stuart Lee Davis, 61, a stickler for well-tailored clothes, had worked at area clothiers since 1979; bank cameras showed the robber wearing a dark suit, a tie and a cream-colored Virginia Tech baseball cap. He made his getaway with $2,750 in cash in a Cadillac.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Sniper&#8217;s ex&#45;wife says his real aim was to kill her</title>
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In October 2002, the shots came from out of nowhere, as seemingly random as they were cold-blooded, leaving 10 dead, three wounded, and millions of people frightened. John Allen Muhammad, now at the Greensville Correctional Center awaiting a scheduled Nov. 10 execution, remains an enigma who might take the motives behind the attacks with him to the grave.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A former Richmond police officer began serving a month in jail yesterday for impersonating a police officer. Key testimony came from an actual police officer who named the defendant as the man who dangerously tailgated her and emphatically identified himself as a police officer. &#8220;I&#8217;m a cop. I&#8217;m a cop,&#8220; Jasmine Rodriguez, a Richmond police officer, testified yesterday, describing the words of a man she later learned was Philip C. Flournoy, 36.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A man faces a lengthy prison term after being convicted yesterday on charges that he bound his girlfriend, put her in the trunk of his car, drove her around, and opened the lid to show her off to a friend. George Washington III is to be sentenced Jan. 27 by Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo, who convicted Washington of two counts of abduction, one of assault, and one of domestic assault.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A U.S. Marine corporal will spend eight years in prison for his role in two robberies that netted $10. Richmond Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. yesterday sentenced Steven Lee Reyes of California to an active sentence of eight years for two counts each of robbery and use of a firearm in a robbery. Reyes and fellow Marine Cpl. Kraig Andrew Kiepprien of New York came to Richmond from Norfolk on Jan. 18 for a night on the town, authorities said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Men sentenced in Richmond beatings</title>
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Two men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the fatal beating of one man and for beating another man nearly to death the same day in South Richmond. Jose C. Bello-Garcia was ordered to serve 40 years in prison, and Jose Raul Gaitan to serve 25 years, on Monday in Richmond Circuit Court. The two defendants beat to death Baudilio Lopez-Andres, 52, in an abandoned house along Jefferson Davis Highway on March 29, using their fists, feet and construction debris, authorities said. He died two days later.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:06:01 EST</pubDate>
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Two Highland Springs men face sentencing in January after pleading guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Wazira Harris. Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Highland Springs High School, died of a bullet to the back April 27 after a large group of youths started fighting and shooting in the 300 block of East Beal Street a few blocks from the high school.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:04:01 EST</pubDate>
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If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said yesterday that Muhammad, 48, declined to choose between either means of execution. In such cases, the default method is lethal injection.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Student charged in fake&#45;rifle prank at Meadowbrook</title>
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A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student faces a felony charge after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop, Chesterfield County police said. Shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday, the male student entered a classroom while class was in session, pointed the fake rifle at students and yelled something, said Chesterfield police Maj. Karl Leonard.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Suspect in Hanover ax attack is held without bond</title>
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A Lee-Davis High School student surrendered without resistance to Hanover County authorities last week as a classmate lay a few feet away, severely injured from an ax attack that sloughed off the side of the victim&#8217;s face. The youth charged in the attack, Omar K. Abdelaal, who turned 16 this month, was ordered held without bond yesterday after a prosecutor told a juvenile court judge that Abdelaal &#8220;represents a threat to the community.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:20 EST</pubDate>
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A troubled Chesterfield County man whose family was about to evict him from their home was found guilty yesterday of fatally stabbing his stepfather with a chisel during a fight over a pizza. After a 2&#189; hour trial in Chesterfield Circuit Court, Circuit Judge T.J. Hauler convicted Heywood Sinclair Smith, 25, of voluntary manslaughter in the March 29, 2008, slaying of James E. Henley Sr., 42.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A U.S. Marine corporal will spend eight years in prison for his role in two robberies that netted $10. Richmond Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. yesterday sentenced Steven Lee Reyes of California to an active sentence of eight years for two counts each of robbery and use of a firearm in a robbery. Reyes and fellow Marine Cpl. Kraig Andrew Kiepprien of New York came to Richmond from Norfolk on Jan. 18 for a night on the town, authorities said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Two plead guilty in fatal Highland Springs shooting</title>
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Two Highland Springs men face sentencing in January after pleading guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Wazira Harris. Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Highland Springs High School, died of a bullet to the back April 27 after a large group of youths started fighting and shooting in the 300 block of East Beal Street a few blocks from the high school.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the fatal beating of one man and for beating another man nearly to death the same day in South Richmond. Jose C. Bello-Garcia was ordered to serve 40 years in prison, and Jose Raul Gaitan to serve 25 years, on Monday in Richmond Circuit Court. The two defendants beat to death Baudilio Lopez-Andres, 52, in an abandoned house along Jefferson Davis Highway on March 29, using their fists, feet and construction debris, authorities said. He died two days later.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Chesterfield County police arrested a 16-year-old male student after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop at Meadowbrook High School. Shortly before 1 p.m., the student entered a classroom while class was in session, pointed the fake rifle at students and yelled something, according to Chesterfield police Maj. Karl Leonard. It is unclear what the boy was yelling, Leonard said, but other students initially believed he had a real gun.The student then left the room and ran through a hallway. A school resource officer apprehended him within a few minutes and without incident, Leonard said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:38:02 EST</pubDate>
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If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway Sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:04 EST</pubDate>
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A Lee-Davis High School student faces possible life in prison if convicted of an ax attack on a fellow student. Hanover Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Ramon E. &#8220;Trip&#8221; Chalkley declined yesterday to identify the 15-year-old, who is charged with aggravated malicious wounding in the incident. But he said he intends to try the youth as an adult and will seek to have the case transferred to Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Richmond City Councilman E. Martin Jewell faces the likelihood of brief jail time if convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol. Jewell, who spent several hours in the Richmond city lockup after his arrest Saturday morning and later was released on $500 bond, made an initial appearance yesterday in Richmond General District Court, where a judge set Dec. 7 as the date to hear the case.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Petersburg father has been charged with severely injuring his 4-month-old daughter, who was scalded over the weekend during a bath. Jeffery Morris, 25, was charged with unlawful felony injury; failure to secure medical attention for his baby; and felony child neglect. The infant suffered the burns Saturday at her home in the first block of East Fillmore Street, said Esther Hyatt, a Petersburg police spokeswoman.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Hopewell man surrendered to police yesterday in Friday&#8217;s fatal shooting of an acquaintance in Prince George County. Robert Edward Moore, 30, turned himself in about 11:15 a.m. and was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of William Joseph Miller Jr., 39, who was found shot to death in the driveway of his sister&#8217;s home in the 3700 block of Prince George Drive. Moore also was charged with using a firearm in the commission of murder.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Police said that a pickup truck involved in a serious hit-and-run Sunday night may be missing part of a plastic bug deflector across the hood.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:42:29 EST</pubDate>
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Prince George County police say that a man sought in connection with a slaying Friday turned himself in this morning.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:54:47 EST</pubDate>
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Six people were robbed and one car was stolen in two robberies and a carjacking last night and early today in Richmond. No injuries were reported in any of the incidents, which were being investigated by Richmond police to see if they had any connections. Police said the first robbery occurred at 8:30 last night in the 1100 block of West Grace Street, near the northwestern tip of Virginia Commonwealth University&#8217;s main academic campus. Two men were robbed at gunpoint by two suspects who took money and fled on foot.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:22:01 EST</pubDate>
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Richmond police are looking for a black pickup truck believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run yesterday in Shockoe Bottom. Police said the truck struck a couple crossing East Main Street near Main Street Station at 9:11 p.m. The man and woman suffered multiple, serious injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, police Capt. Paul Kiniry said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two teenagers have been charged in a recent string of smash-and-grab commercial break-ins along Chesterfield County&#8217;s Hull Street Road corridor that involved the theft of alcohol, food, money and cash registers. The teens, ages 16 and 17, also are accused of breaking into numerous swimming pool concession stands last summer in the county&#8217;s northern end, police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Thieves steal 34 catalytic converters at 2 Chester car dealerships</title>
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Chesterfield County police are investigating the thefts of 34 catalytic converters that were cut from new vehicles at two Chester car dealerships. The loss was estimated at $80,000. The converters were taken sometime between 9 p.m. last Saturday, Oct. 17, and 9 a.m. Monday from Colonial Honda at 2100 Walthall Center Drive and Priority Honda at 2000 Walthall Center Drive. The vehicles hit included new Honda Pilots, Honda Elements, Honda Ridgelines, Toyota Tundras and RAV4s.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:55 EST</pubDate>
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The FBI has joined the search for a Virginia Tech student missing since she became separated from her friends at a Metallica concert Oct. 17. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said yesterday that the FBI will be able to investigate tips from around the country in the disappearance of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington of Roanoke.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg sheriff candidate faces voter&#45;fraud charge</title>
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A candidate for Petersburg sheriff was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanor charge of committing voter fraud in last November&#8217;s election. Troy Bernard Fobbs Sr., 56, surrendered to Virginia State Police investigators following a monthlong investigation, said Sgt. Tom Molnar, a state police spokesman. A warrant charging him with one count of illegal voting and registration alleges that Fobbs cast his ballot last November knowing he was not qualified to vote in Petersburg.           ]]></description>
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Lawyers for Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad have asked Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to spare his life because the Persian Gulf War veteran suffers from mental illness. In a statement released yesterday afternoon, they contend Muhammad should not be executed because of his &#8220;brain damage, brain dysfunction, neurological deficits as well as his psychotic and delusional behavior.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Prince George man fatally shot at sister&#8217;s home</title>
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A Prince George County man was found fatally shot early yesterday in the driveway of his sister&#8217;s home, police said. The body of the victim, identified as William Joseph Miller Jr., 39, was discovered about 4:40 a.m. outside his sibling&#8217;s residence in the 3700 block of Prince George Drive. As of last night, police had made no arrests but were investigating a possible connection to a domestic incident that occurred about the same time and roughly 500 feet away on Prince George Drive.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Colonial Heights woman has pleaded guilty to killing one man and severely injuring another after colliding head-on with their mo-ped while intoxicated and traveling in the wrong lanes of Jefferson Davis Highway. Megan Lean Brown, 25, pleaded guilty Monday in Chesterfield County Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter while driving intoxicated, maiming while driving intoxicated and driving under the influence of alcohol. She faces a combined maximum prison term of 16 years when she is sentenced Jan. 20.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Thieves cut pricey catalytic converters from cars at Chesterfield dealers again</title>
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Chesterfield County police are investigating the thefts of 34 catalytic converters that were cut from new vehicles at two Chester car dealerships. The loss was estimated at $80,000. The converters were taken sometime between 9 p.m. Oct. 17 and 9 a.m. Monday from Colonial Honda at 2100 Walthall Center Drive and Priority Honda at 2000 Walthall Center Drive. The vehicles hit included new Honda Pilots, Honda Elements, Honda Ridgelines, Toyota Tundras and RAV4s.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:14:02 EST</pubDate>
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A baby girl found abandoned in a Chesterfield County neighborhood Monday may be as old as three weeks and could have been delivered at a medical facility, authorities disclosed yesterday. After consulting with medical professionals, police and socialservices officials revised their estimation of the girl&#8217;s age, which was initially listed at 36 hours or less.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:43 EST</pubDate>
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Virginia State Police have launched a statewide investigation into possible illegal voting by felons in last November&#8217;s election. However, state police and election officials declined to give any indication of how many possible offenders are under investigation, so the extent of the problem could not be gauged yesterday. State police said that such an investigation is not unusual.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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Space could be tight in Virginia&#8217;s death house Nov. 10, with victims&#8217; family members seeking to attend the execution of Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad, 48, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 24, were convicted of crimes committed during a three-week shooting rampage in October 2002 that killed 10 and wounded three in Virginia, Washington and Maryland. They also have been linked to woundings and slayings in other states.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A nanny sought by Henrico County police after she was charged with stealing money from a piggy bank belonging to a child in her care has been arrested in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Lt. Doug Perry said Lindsey S. Romero was arrested Tuesday in Virginia Beach. Romero, 26, failed to appear for her arraignment on a charge of grand larceny.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police are looking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying two suspects in last week&#8217;s armed robbery of the Modern Coin Co. downtown. Authorities also released a video of the robbery yesterday. The first suspect is described as a black male, about 5-foot-7, with a medium complexion and stocky build. He was last seen wearing a dark ski mask and light-colored gloves.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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Richmond police have arrested an East End man in last week&#8217;s robbery of the Wachovia bank branch at 1800 Chamberlayne Ave. Charles E. McCall, 46, of the 2100 block of Accommodation St. was identified by investigators based on a Crime Stoppers tip, authorities said. A police spokeswoman said McCall&#8217;s charges were not immediately available because he is expected to be prosecuted in federal court.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Kaine denies clemency request in molestation case</title>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has denied a clemency request by a convicted child molester whose accuser recanted her testimony. George Somerville, a Richmond attorney who was part of a team representing Aleck J. Carpitcher, called the decision devastating. Carpitcher is serving 38 years in prison. Kaine spokesman Michael Kelly says the governor doesn&#8217;t discuss clemency petitions.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Woman pleads not guilty to embezzlement</title>
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A Richmond woman charged with swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a program for severely disabled children pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal court and faces a three-day jury trial in January. But allegations raised in a federal indictment this month against Iris F. Allen, who worked as the benefits manager for the state&#8217;s birth-injury program, are raising a storm of questions as well about operation of the program itself.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 3100 block of Dill Avenue, between 9 p.m. Oct. 16 and 7:37 p.m. Oct. 18, someone stole copper piping. 800 block of North 26th Street, between 4:30 and 10:15 p.m. Oct. 17, items were stolen.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Louisa County woman linked to three mysterious deaths beginning with that of her second husband 15 years ago pleaded guilty yesterday to dumping her boyfriend&#8217;s body in an abandoned well. Ulisa Mary Chavers, speaking in barely audible tones, pleaded guilty to charges of concealing the body of Reginal Cody Bowles, credit-card fraud, identity theft and possession of a sawed-off rifle. She faces up to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced Jan. 25.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two Henrico County students were arrested yesterday after a fight on a school bus that spilled into the street and a resident&#8217;s yard and involved a third student and two parents. The incident started after a 12-year-old Brookland Middle School student boarded her assigned bus shortly after 8 a.m. at Calloway Road and Harrison Avenue, near West Broad Street in western Henrico, said Henrico police Lt. Doug Perry. The 12-year-old sought out a 15-year-old girl already on board and began to assault her, Perry said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police seek help in identifying coin robbery suspects</title>
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Richmond police today released a video showing last week&#8217;s armed robbery of the Modern Coin Co. downtown. Authorities are looking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying the suspects in the video. The first suspect is described as a black male, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, with a medium complexion and stocky build. He was last seen wearing a dark ski mask and light-colored gloves.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:33 EST</pubDate>
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Richmond police have arrested a man they say is responsible for several acts of graffiti vandalism in the city&#8217;s Oregon Hill area and several city parks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:04:02 EST</pubDate>
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No injuries were reported late last night in the armed robbery of a convenience store in Richmond&#8217;s West End. The robbery was reported at 11:13 p.m. at a 7-Eleven at 4601 W. Broad St. Richmond police Capt. Scott Booth said the robber was wearing a ski mask and toting a handgun and a backpack when he entered the store and demanded money and cigarettes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:52:01 EST</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON&#8212;Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. spoke out in vain yesterday against a lower-court ruling he says will &#8220;grant drunk drivers &#8216;one free swerve&#8217;&#8221; that potentially could end someone&#8217;s life. Roberts wanted the Supreme Court to review the lower-court ruling, but he failed to persuade enough of his colleagues. The court declined to hear an appeal from Virginia officials who had their felony drunken-driving conviction of Joseph A. Moses Harris Jr. thrown out by the Virginia Supreme Court.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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A Richmond woman who left her 8-year-old son on the side of a Dinwiddie County road after arguing with him about his performance in a bicycle race was convicted yesterday of contributing to his delinquency and given a 12-month suspended jail term. Leanne Denise Casolaro, 38, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge, reduced from felony child neglect, in Dinwiddie Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. A judge sentenced her to 12 months in jail but suspended the entire term.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:01:07 EST</pubDate>
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A man was arrested this morning for allegedly stabbing his mother in one foot at her South Richmond home. The 19-year-old man, whose identity was not immediately released, was charged with aggravated assault following the 3:47 a.m. incident. Richmond police Capt. Scott Booth said the woman refused medical treatment following the stabbing, which occurred in the 800 block of Pebble Court, just west of McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:02:01 EST</pubDate>
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A newborn baby girl not more than 36 hours old was found crying in a Ukrop&#8217;s shopping bag yesterday afternoon in a neighborhood near Courthouse and Reams roads in Chesterfield County. The baby still had her umbilical cord attached and was wrapped in several small blankets and a woman&#8217;s white skirt, Chesterfield police Sgt. John Street said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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With 2.3 million people incarcerated in America&#8217;s prison system, prisoners in the United States make up one-quarter of the world&#8217;s jail population. Once released, an estimated two out of every three inmates end up back in jail. Prisons have become &#8220;warehouses&#8221; for the mentally ill. The number of drug offenders in America&#8217;s prison system has jumped from 41,000 in 1980 to more than 500,000 today.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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An off-duty Henrico County police officer will serve 10 days in jail after a judge convicted him yesterday of driving under the influence. J.L. Crain, 30, pleaded no contest to the drunken-driving chargestemming from a Sept. 20 accident in western Henrico at 1:30 a.m. Crain showed a blood-alcohol concentration of .28 percent, more than three times the limit and one that carries a mandatory jail sentence.           ]]></description>
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The third of three men charged in a string of armed robberies that plagued shopkeepers along the South Crater Road business corridor in Petersburg pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to robbery and firearm charges. Corbin Alexander Dickerson, 19, of the 200 block of South Park Drive in Petersburg, was convicted of one count of bank robbery and use of a firearm in a felony.           ]]></description>
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Police have identified a man whose body was found Saturday night in a North Richmond alley. About 8:20 p.m., police received a call about a person down in an alleyway between Monteiro and Lamb avenues in the Southern Barton Heights area. They arrived to find Kernard T. Bowling Jr., 38, unresponsive with gunshot wounds. Bowling, of the 2000 block of Cleary Road in Henrico County, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.           ]]></description>
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LANEXA&#8212;A year after he allegedly gunned down a Williamsburg teenager in possible self-defense, fled his rental home here in New Kent County, and then surrendered to federal agents in Alabama, John Steven Carter is still off the radar of the county prosecutor. &#8220;I just haven&#8217;t decided yet what we are going to do,&#8220; said C. Linwood Gregory, New Kent&#8217;s commonwealth&#8217;s attorney, when asked about the high-profile case recently.           ]]></description>
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Jury trials remain a favorite of American film and literature but not of the criminal-justice system, where their use long has been in decline here and across the country. The trend has accelerated in recent decades as tougher sentencing laws leave more defendants unwilling to assert a right found in Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution and that is recognized by all states.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police last night were investigating the death of a male in the Southern Barton Heights area of the city. About 8:20 p.m., police responded to a call of a shooting and found the victim in an alley between Monteiro and Lamb avenues. Grady Lynch, a resident of the area, said he was inside his home when he heard three to four shots.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man found slain in Richmond&#8217;s South Barton Heights</title>
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Richmond police last night were investigating the death of a male in the Southern Barton Heights area of the city. About 8:20 p.m., police responded to a call of a shooting and found the victim in an alley between Monteiro and Lamb avenues. Grady Lynch, a resident of the area, said he was inside his home when he heard three to four shots.           ]]></description>
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Dinwiddie County mother Julie E. Futrell will spend the rest of her life behind bars. After Futrell testified yesterday about how good of a mother she was, Dinwiddie Circuit Judge Pamela S. Baskervill sentenced Futrell, 36, to life in prison for drugging and stabbing to death her young son in the family&#8217;s bathtub in 2006. Baskervill imposed the sentence recommended by a jury, which convicted her of murder in March.           ]]></description>
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A Richmond jury deadlocked yesterday in the trial for a man charged with shooting another man and leaving him to die on a play ground outside Chimborazo Elementary School. Circuit Judge Beverly W. Snukals declared a mistrial after the jury deliberated about four hours and failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The defendant, Anthony Singleton, 20, is charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a felony. The trial started Thursday.           ]]></description>
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A murder defendant&#8217;s changing story to police managed to place him at the scene of a drive-by shooting and narrow the number of unsolved cases in one of the region&#8217;s most crime-ridden areas. A Henrico County jury Thursday night returned a first-degree murder conviction and recommended a life sentence for Lamar D. Jordan, 26. Jordan, of no fixed address but familiar to law-enforcement officers because of his red Acura sedan, told police that the gunfire that killed 21-year-old Rayvell B. Fitzgerald on Nov. 7 in the Essex Village apartment complex likely was meant for him.           ]]></description>
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HOPEWELL&#8212;Rontel Taylor&#8217;s decision to change his hairstyle last week effectively caused a mistrial yesterday in his murder case. As jurors in his first-degree murder trial deliberated his fate during the trial&#8217;s second day, one panel member suddenly realized she knew the defendant and told her fellow jurors. She apparently didn&#8217;t recognize him earlier because he had cut off his dreadlocks around Oct. 8 and now sports a close-cut look.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A circuit judge declared a mistrial today in the murder case of Rontel Taylor, who had been on trial two days for the slaying of Alfonzo &#8220;Fonz&#8221; Patillo after a Super Bowl party in 2008.
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David Ray Worsham, a shy man who never passed fifth grade, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for killing his 83-year-old mother. Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo sentenced Worsham, 56, to 40 years in prison, with 10 years suspended. Cavedo found him guilty in May of the first-degree murder of Virginia Worsham. Witnesses called yesterday by public defenders Katherine Poindexter and Jonathan Roth testified that Worsham loved his mother, but that the two had a long-standing disagreement over his crack cocaine habit.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Three 17-year-old classmates pointed to Nicholas Moore yesterday, identifying him as the teenage gunman who fired as many as five rounds at close range from a semi-automatic pistol, barely missing them. &#8220;I heard it go past my head,&#8220; one of the witnesses testified, referring to a bullet fired Sept. 16 outside Virginia Randolph Community High School.           ]]></description>
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Circumstantial evidence from 25 witnesses over two days convinced a Henrico County jury yesterday that a drive-by shooting in Essex Village apartments last year was first-degree murder. Assistant Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorneys Heidi Barshinger and Owen Conway argued that evidence in the case established that Lamar D. Jordan, 26, of the 1200 block of Middleberry Drive in Henrico gunned down Rayvell B. Fitzgerald on Nov. 7 last year with a single shot from an assault rifle.           ]]></description>
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