The state’s new $62 million home for sexually violent predators, including rapists and child molesters, will fill up in the next two or three years, officials warned yesterday. Dr. James Reinhard, commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, told the State Crime Commission that the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation in rural Nottoway County will reach its 300-bed capacity by 2012.

PETERSBURG—A Petersburg gang leader was convicted yesterday of conspiring to kill a city police detective who had arrested him last year in a series of gang-related robberies in the city. Kalvin B. Kelley, 22, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit capital murder of a police officer, threatening death to a police officer by mail, criminal gang participation, and two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery. In exchange, prosecutors withdrew 19 other charges, including multiple counts of robbery, abduction and felonious use of a firearm.