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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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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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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Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Lt. Tony Sisk watches the radar display — it ought to say 25 or less — on a recent morning in Sperryville, part of Sheriff Connie Smith’s stepped-up patrols directed at speeders in Sperryville, Flint Hill, Washington, Woodville and elsewhere. The effort netted 51 citations in four days last week, Smith...
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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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At the courthouse earlier this week, the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office held a promotion ceremony and a small party for (front row, from left) James Anthony “Tony” Sisk, the county school resource officer since 2008, who was promoted to lieutenant; Lt. J.C. Welch, investigator the last two years, promoted to captain; Sgt. Jamie Phillips,...
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Fire crews from Washington, Flint Hill, Sperryville, Amissville, Chester Gap and Castleton fight a blaze at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Rick’s Custom Welding, on U.S. 211 next door to the Hillsdale Grocery just east of Washington. Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Maj. Scott Jenkins said he was first to arrive at the scene and that owner...
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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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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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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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A Huntly man died Dec. 29 after a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 522 in northern Rappahannock County.
Jerry Lee Gray Sr., 51, died of his injuries while being transported to a hospital in Warren County, according to Sgt. Les Tyler of the Virginia State Police.
Statewide, on the extended Christmas and New Year’s holiday weekends before...
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Sheriff’s Report Gary Lee Moore II, 28, of Headwaters Road, was arrested Dec. 23 by Deputy Robbie Fincham and charged with assault and being drunk in public. The charges stemmed from an incident at 67 Chester Gap Road. A Boston woman was injured in a single-vehicle accident on U.S. 211 near Battle Mountain Road...
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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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A Boston, Va., woman was killed in a single-car accident on U.S. 522 at 10 a.m. Sunday in Rappahannock County near the border with Culpeper County. Amanda Gayle Kidwell, 24, was northbound on U.S. 522 when she went off the right side of the road, overcorrected, went across the centerline and overturned after going...
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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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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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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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Firefighters from five counties and civilian volunteers responded to a blaze that engulfed the Fauquier Livestock Exchange in Marshall Monday night. Their joint efforts saved most of the cattle from perishing but the building where breeders from around the region come to sell their cattle was heavily damaged. There were about 225 head of...
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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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A 19-year-old driver was heading south on Keyser Run Road in Gid Brown Hollow Tuesday morning in a 1998 Jeep when she lost control, struck an embankment and the car overturned. Virginia State Police spokesman Sgt. F.L. Tyler said the driver, Dawn Marie Scott, was wearing a seatbelt and was unhurt in the single-car...
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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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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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This 1993 Ford Explorer caught fire on the way up the fire road at the end of Keyser Run Road leading to the Baldwin family cemetery in Shenandoah National Park where the family meets twice yearly to tidy up the historic grounds and have a picnic. Washington Fire Chief Ann Spieker says no one...
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No traffic fatalities occurred in Rappahannock County during the Memorial Day holiday weekend but a 21-year-old Fauquier County man died in a road accident near Shenandoah National Park on May 20.
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Rappahannock County lost a piece of its history Friday as the oldest continuously operated restaurant in the county was destroyed by fire.
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Elderly man dies after a minor accident coming down the mountain on U.S. 211, and a county school bus collides with a car on U.S. 522 near Chester Gap.
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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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Police reported two driving under the influence (DUI) arrests made over the last two weeks in Rappahannock County, including one that also involved concealed weapons and another that also involved possession of marijuana. James Tolbert Effler Jr., 43, of Culpeper, was arrested by State Trooper B.R. Johnson Sunday about 6 p.m. on U.S. 211,...
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A long-standing feud between brothers over property apparently came to a head Saturday in Amissville, according to court records, and resulted in both being charged with assault -– and one of them being also charged with a felony for allegedly attacking the other’s pickup truck with his tractor. According to warrants on file in...
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