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A man convicted of participating in the violent street gang MS-13 and being an accessory after the fact to the brutal murder of a Lynchburg teen in 2017 was sentenced
BY RACHEL MAHONEY The (Lynchburg) News & Advance LYNCHBURG â A Lynchburg Police Department officer who shot at a man while trying to take him into custody during a mental health episode, killing a dog the man was holding, was justified in his actions, a prosecutor has determined. Multiple officers responded to the Cherrywood Suites extended-stay apartments off Holcomb Path Road the night of Feb. 25 for at least two calls about a man who was having a mental health episode, according to statements from police and an investigation report released Tuesday. One of the callers had ...
BEDFORD â A Moneta woman will serve just under three years behind bars after being sentenced Friday in connection with an August 2019 DUI crash that killed a man. Brandi Michelle Credille, 36, pleaded no contest in September 2020 to charges of involuntary manslaughter, felony child neglect and misdemeanor driving under the influence. Credille was driving north on Moneta Road, near the Moneta Post Office, in the late morning of Aug. 8, 2019, when her vehicle swerved across the center lane and hit William Lee Keeneyâs truck as he was headed south, Bedford Commonwealthâs Attorney ...
With jury trials suspended this month throughout most of the greater Lynchburg area because of the coronavirus pandemic, a backlog of those cases has been building â and those involved will be some of the last whose sentence is legally required to be jury-recommended. Virginia legislators passed a law last year that will take away the requirement for sentencing by a jury after they convict someone starting July 1. Itâs something of a landmark: Virginia was the first state to enact jury sentencing in 1796, with some states following suit but several abandoning the process in the 1970...
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Josue Coreas-Ventura, a suspected MS-13 gang member, was arrested back in 2017 in connection to the brutal stabbing death of Raymond Wood.