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Two Rappahannock County teenagers are now in custody on robbery and weapons charges stemming from the Dec. 20 armed robbery of a Virginia ABC Store in the town of Orange. Shortly after midnight early Saturday (Jan. 15), the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office took James Lynn Crooks, 19, of Sperryville, into custody without incident on...
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Update Both suspects are now in custody. A more recent version of this story can be found here. Virginia State Police Tuesday arrested one 19-year-old Rappahannock County youth and were seeking the public’s help in locating another, both of them charged in the armed robbery last month of a Virginia ABC Store in the...
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Virginia State Police this week were seeking the public’s help in locating two Rappahannock County 19-year-olds charged in the armed robbery last month of a Virginia ABC Store in the town of Orange. The armed robbery occurred Dec. 20 at the Virginia ABC Store on North Madison Street. A state police spokesperson said James...
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When I went to put Christmas flowers on my parents’ graves in the Sperryville cemetery (James Ludd Jenkins and Martha Lee Jenkins), I got a very big, upsetting shock. I could not believe that someone had taken some object and poked each of their faces out of the pictures on the front of the...
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Circuit Court Charvez Ray Robinson, 22, of Lignum, Va., was sentenced last week to a seven-year jail term, convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Judge Thomas D. Horn suspended all but seven months of the sentence. On a charge of possession of marijuana, Robinson was sentenced to 30 days, and will...
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Pullen, Hicks trials set Murder and attempted murder charges will be heard next spring in Rappahannock County Circuit Court against two men accused in separate shooting incidents this summer. Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker on Friday (Dec. 17) scheduled a jury trial for David Linwood Pullen of Sperryville to begin May 4. Pullen,...
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Anna C. Clifford, 31, of Amisville was sentenced Tuesday by Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker to two years of supervised probation, 100 hours of community service and loss of her driver’s license for six months. The sentencing stemmed from a guilty plea by Clifford to a charge of felony possession of Oxycodone....
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The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office charged Julius Ceasar Lucas, 19, of 24 Mason Mountain Lane, on Nov. 13 with underage possession of alcohol. Deputy Gary Jenkins also charged Lucas with trespassing after he was told by the owner of a place on Hidden Run Lane in Castleton to stay off the property. A traffic...
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A Rappahannock County grand jury on Monday returned indictments on first-degree murder and four other charges against David Linwood “Buddy” Pullen, Sperryville, in the Aug. 3 death of his stepson. Herbert Wayne Jenkins, 44, was found face down in the yard at 3 Bump Lane by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a 911 call....
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First-degree murder and firearms charges against a Sperryville man accused of killing his stepson were certified last Thursday to the grand jury by Rappahannock General District Court Judge J. Gregory Ashwell. In addition to the murder charge, the grand jury will consider four other firearms-related charges against David Linwood “Buddy” Pullen, 66, of Sperrvyille,...
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A 27-year-old Woodville man received a stiff sentence Friday (Oct. 22) for administering narcotics to his two-month-old daughter last December.
Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. sentenced Thomas Edward Lee III to more than 11 years in prison for felony child abuse and probation violations, suspending just over five years. Lee will serve...
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William David Martin 35, of Sperryville, was found guilty in Rappahannock General District Court Tuesday of two counts of brandishing a firearm. The charges stemmed from an Oct. 4 incident at 3710 Sperryville Pike, in which the court was told Martin threatened two people with a shotgun as they attempted to move in to...
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Robert Glaze, 25, of Gainesville, was charged with assault and battery on a family member Friday after the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a woman was being assaulted with a pitchfork on Dearing Road. Glaze was arrested by Deputy Gary Jenkins, and a protective order was issued. He was released on...
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The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office responded to more than 250 calls for assistance this past week (through midday Monday), ranging from security checks and suspicious vehicles to reports of theft, fires and accidents. A deputy responded Sunday (Sept. 26) to a residence in Viewtown whose owners reported the theft of a Stihl BR 400...
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Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker granted a motion Monday for a psychiatric evaluation of Thomas Lee Hicks, 62, of Boston, Va., charged in a shooting in June. The report is to be filed with the court by Oct. 18. Bond for the defendant’s release was denied and the case was continued to...
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The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Friday, Sept. 3 at 3756 Sperryville Pike and then arrested Tessa Rose Adams, 29. Adams was charged with possession of a controlled substance and distribution of marijuana. Additional warrants are being sought by Lt. J.C. Welch. Robert Grancille Ross, 55, a resident of South Riding...
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A preliminary hearing has been set Oct. 28 for David Linwood “Buddy” Pullen, 66, on murder and other charges in the shooting death of his 44-year-old stepson, Herbert Wayne Jenkins. Both men lived at 3 Bump Lane in Sperryville, where the shootings occurred Aug. 3. Initially, Pullen had been charged, on Aug. 6, only...
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The Blue Ridge Narcotics Task Force arrested Sandra Marlene Weaver, 39, of Amissville on charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to give, sell, or distribute it; knowingly or intentionally possessing a controlled substance; and possessing or distributing controlled paraphernalia. The arrest was made Aug. 7, according to the Rappahannock Sheriff’s Office,...
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The lone survivor involved in last week’s fatal shooting in Sperryville was placed under arrest by the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 6. David Linwood (“Buddy”) Pullen, 66, of Sperryville, was being held without bond at the Rappahannock jail on the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Pullen’s stepson,...
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A shooting in Sperryville Tuesday night has apparently left one man dead and another hospitalized.
Though the victims’ names could not be confirmed with the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday, the injured man was identified by a family member as Buddy Pullen of the 100 block of Old Hollow Road. A family member said the...
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On July 7, Deputy Robert Fincham of the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle on U.S. 211 for defective brake lights. Kathryn Rebecca Teel, 25, of Sperryville, was arrested and charged with driving with a revoked license, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. It was the third traffic stop in two...
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During the July 4 holiday, traffic fatalities declined once again across Virginia. Of the 743 traffic crashes that state police responded to during the four-day statistical counting period, preliminary reports indicate that five of the crashes resulted in five deaths. In 2009, nine people were killed over a three-day holiday weekend.
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The driver of the pickup truck in which a 16-year-old Sperryville youth was killed last October was acquitted Tuesday of a drunk driving charge but found guilty of five other alcohol- and traffic-related charges. Rappahannock Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge J. Gregory Ashwell also sentenced Charles Climo of Sperryville to six months in...
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Traffic on U.S. 211 was blocked for about seven hours overnight June 16 and 17 after a tractor trailer carrying some 20,000 pounds of copper bales overturned on the road west of Sperryville. The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Department responded to assist the Virginia State Police after the accident happened at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday,...
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The suspect charged with the shooting of an 80-year-old Rappahannock County man during a June 10 attempted robbery will have a preliminary hearing at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 3 in Rappahannock District Court, Washington.
In the meantime, Thomas Lee Hicks, 62, of 13335 Durante's Curve, Boston, Va., in Culpeper County, remains in custody, held without...
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A trial date of June 24 was set last week for charges against Charles Edward Climo, 18, of Sperryville, who is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and four other driving- or drinking-related offenses stemming from an accident last October in which 16-year-old Logan McKiernan was fatally injured. The charges...
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By Alexandra Bogdanovic and staff Former General District Court Judge Charles B. Foley’s position may not be filled for at least two years as a result of a budget amendment included in the spending plan recently approved by the General Assembly. The amendment stipulates that, regardless of state law, positions vacated due to the...
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The driver of the pickup truck in which 16-year-old Logan McKiernan was fatally injured last fall has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and four other driving- or drinking-related charges. Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke this week filed the charges against Charles Edward Climo, 18, of Sperryville, in Rappahannock County...
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A Rappahannock Circuit Court grand jury voted to indict a number of defendants this week on various drug-related, assault and firearms charges. Also on Monday, Circuit Court Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. sentenced — among others — two of three persons found guilty of breaking and entering Hackley’s Store in Amissville last May. Dennis...
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A jury on Wednesday returned a not-guilty verdict in the Rappahannock Circuit Court trial of Allen Lewis, a sometime Rappahannock resident accused last April of raping a woman friend while driving her home. This allegedly occurred after spending an evening drinking and smoking crack cocaine with her and others. NOTE: As originally published, this...
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