A Fauquier County grand jury on Monday indicted Judy Kay Deal, 57, of Amissville, on one count of first degree murder and one count of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
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Crime & Courts
Judy Deal indicted in murder-suicide attempt
Marijuana-growing charges downgraded
Charges of growing and distributing marijuana against several members of a Castleton family – the result of flyovers by law enforcement on an unrelated manhunt last summer – are downgraded to misdemeanors.
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Flavor investor barred from contact with publisher
In Rappahannock County General District Court Tuesday (Jan. 17), Patricia Lynn Sullivan of Sperryville was issued a $1,000 recognizance to keep the peace – or peace bond – to guarantee compliance with the court’s order that the former Flavor magazine investor would have no contact with the Sperryville-based magazine’s publisher, Melissa Harris. If Sullivan...
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Crime and Courts for Jan. 12
A plea agreement has likely been reached with 18-year-old Cameron MacArthur of Amissville in the cases spawned by August’s burglary, arson and manhunt on Grand View Road.
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Felony charge in cat’s death
A local chef will face a felony charge of animal cruelty this week, the 26-year-old accused of feeding a pet cat to his two penned dogs on Christmas Eve at his Washington home on Battle Run Lane. In Rappahannock County District Court Tuesday, Anthony Robert Ahrens, head chef until last week at Sperryville’s Cafe...
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No room at the . . . jail
The Rappahannock County Jail is full, currently holding 35 inmates in a facility meant for 15.
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Peyton Farms manhunt
Read the complete story here, in our eEdition. Though the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office has made no public statements yet about the case, deputies — assisted by at least one helicopter — were searching early Saturday for one or more suspects involved in what was said to be an arson and assault incident on...
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Sheriff’s Report: Drug, medication theft offenses charged
Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Deputy Nick White charged a 39-year-old Rixeyville man with DUI and possession of a scheduled drug and drug paraphernalia. Stevie Settle, of Ellens Lane, remains in the county jail after the April 16 traffic stop on Lee Highway near Indian Run Road. Jeremy David Janzen, 42, of Foxhall Farm Lane, was...
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Amissville man apprehended after I-66 chase
Fauquier County deputies and Prince William County police assisted with the apprehension of a Rappahannock County man who allegedly led state police on a half hour-long chase last Thursday night (April 21) into Fauquier County.
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Culpeper man guilty in robbery, murder attempt
A 62-year-old Boston handyman was convicted last Thursday (March 31) by a Rappahannock Circuit Court jury of attempted murder, aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and robbery in the shooting last June 10 near Scrabble of Clyde “Jack” Dellinger.
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Four charged in series of break-ins
Three Amissville residents and a fourth former Rappahannock County man face multiple felony charges that authorities say stem from a series of break-ins of equipment, firearms and cash dating to 2009 and 2010 in the county.
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Crime and Courts for March 10
Drug, other charges follow traffic stops Three men face charges of drug possession and eluding police after a traffic stop led to a brief chase on Indian Run Road on Friday, March 4. After Sheriff’s Capt. J.C. Welch attempted to stop a 2002 Chevy pickup that had apparently defective equipment, the vehicle kept going...
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Crime and Courts for Feb. 17
A Castleton man on a motorcycle was charged with eluding police last Friday evening (Feb. 11) – after a brief high-speed chase from Sperryville south on U.S. 522 through Woodville, where authorities said the man gave up and pulled over.
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Crime and Courts for Feb. 10
Bail set at $10,000 in indecent exposure case District Judge Thomas G. Underwood set a $10,000 cash bond Feb. 1 for Tikis Gales, 35, of Norfolk, charged with damaging or destroying property, indecent exposure and two counts of indecent exposure with lascivious intent to a minor (a felony) after he allegedly urinated on a...
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Crime & Courts for Jan. 27
Sheriff’s Report No information was available this week from the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office. Martin sentenced for brandishing firearm William David Martin, 35, of Sperryville, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on charges of brandishing a firearm by Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. on Jan. 10. Martin had appealed an...
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Fatal crash driver faces new charge
Three young men, including one who just spent three months in jail for alcohol- and driving-related offenses occurring on the night 16-year-old Logan McKiernan died in a car wreck in October 2009, were arrested last week on charges of grand larceny. The charges stemmed from the recent destruction of street signs and mailboxes, according...
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Both local teens in custody on armed robbery charges
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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Crime & Courts: Local teens charged in robbery
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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Police seek Rappahannock teens in Orange ABC robbery
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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Letter: Monumental vandalism
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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Crime and Courts for Jan. 6
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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Crime & Courts for Dec. 26
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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Crime & Courts for Dec. 9
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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Sheriff’s Report for Nov. 25
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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Courts and crime update for Nov. 11
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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Sperryville murder case sent to grand jury
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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Crime & Courts for Oct. 28
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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Moving incident brings firearm conviction
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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Sheriff’s Report for Oct. 7
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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Sheriff’s Report for Sept. 30
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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Psychiatric exam ordered in shooting case
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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Sheriff’s Report: Search leads to Sperryville drug arrest
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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Hearing set on Sperryville murder charge
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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Sheriff’s Report: Narcotics task force makes arrest
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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Wounded shooting victim charged, arrested
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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One dead, one injured in Old Hollow
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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Traffic stops lead to drug, driving charges
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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July 4 traffic fatalities decline again
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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No DUI; driver gets six months in fatal crash
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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Sheriff’s Report: Accident closes 211
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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