He and his wife, Tammy, a registered nurse at Morehead Memorial Hospital in Eden, N.C., live in a brick house on a wooded hilltop in Ridgeway. Richard Wade Isom, III, 54, on or about Jan. 17, reckless driving. (function(){try{window.renderingEnv="classic";wp_meta_data=window.wp_meta_data||{};wp_meta_data.platform="pagebuilder";if(! e.__tcfapiCall){var t=e.__tcfapiCall,r=t.callId,i=t.command,s=t.parameter,c=t.version;o.executeTcfApi(i,s,function(e,t){var i={__tcfapiReturn:{returnValue:e,success:t,callId:r}};a&&a.source&&a.source.postMessage&&a.source.postMessage(n?JSON.stringify(i):i,"*")},c)}},this.executeTcfApi=function(){for(var e=[],t=0;t window.commercialNode="/local";window.has_fusion_version=false; Danny Lee Utt, 61, on or about June 3, malicious wounding. The remaining indictments recently handed down by a Martinsville grand jury were unsealed and released this week, according to documents in the Martinsville Circuit Court Clerk's Office. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Please subscribe to keep reading. The Henry County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., in the Board Meeting Room on the first floor of the Henry County Administration Building on Kings Mountain Road in Collinsville, Virginia. Thirteen of the defendants are current or former employees of the county sheriff's office. According to the indictment, the DEA called to report a drug shipment to a "Brad Martin's house" in 2001. James A. Vaught. The 48-count indictment was issued by a grand jury in Abingdon on Tuesday. The canine handler for the sheriff's office, Walter R. Hairston, periodically received drugs to train drug-smelling dogs, the release states. Maranda Lynn Goss, 29, on or about July 22, possession of methamphetamine. "We need some jobs.". She was also shot to death. Indictments are not an indication of guilt. "You have law enforcement [officers] risking their lives to take these guns off the streets and then a very few members of law enforcement putting them right back out there.". In April 1996, Cassell had his first brush with national exposure when U.S. News & World Report ran a lengthy article about Sandy Level (pop. Create a Website Account - Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more. Assets connected to the distribution and trafficking of narcotics were also seized during this operation. Floyd Valdez Dillard, 48, on or about Feb. 17, felonious violation of the habitual offender act-second or subsequent offense. The house also was used by other members of the sheriff's office for parties and extramarital trysts, the federal indictment states. Simple assault was the second most reported offense and accounted for 12.8% of the index crimes at 334 incidents. Matthew Ryan Scott, 35, on or about Aug. 24, possession of methamphetamine. Read on. Cassell allegedly covered these activities up, the indictment claims, by not pursuing investigations and by agreeing to pass on any law enforcement information to the offending parties so they could avoid apprehension, by making false statements to federal investigators and by attempting to aid Vaught in a money laundering scheme to disguise the source of money represented to have been derived from the distribution of cocaine, according to the release. window.dQ.participants = ["iab_banner","softwall"]; A Henry County Grand Jury issued 326 indictments on Nov. 16. Virginia State Police officers guard the Henry County Sheriff's Office Thursday. According to Brownlee, Sampson claimed to be an eyewitness to the slaying, and claimed he witnessed a man come out of the Short's home that he later identified as Gary Storm Bowman of Stoneville, N.C., the only "person of interest" in relation to the case ever publicly named by authorities. One deputy, Walter R. Hairston, allegedly gave Vaught marijuana and cocaine he used to train the department's drug-sniffing dogs. As yellow ribbons and posters flooded the area, Cassell's calm, Southern drawl became a regular presence on cable TV and morning talk shows. CASEY: Some head-turning words by Rep. 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Dytanya Feshawn Porter, 42, on or about Feb. 9, felonious violation of the habitual offender act-second or subsequent offense. For someone receiving a deputy's pay -- the starting salary is $27,313 -- Vaught seemed to be doing very well. 276-638-8801, Ext. Residents of Henry County, a hard-luck rural area of about 58,000 on the North Carolina border, blame the North American Free Trade Agreement for their woes -- spitting its acronym like an expletive. Serving the citizens of Henry County with Professionalism, Integrity & Commitment "Those who betray the public trust insult the integrity and honor of all police officers who risk their lives upholding the law," said Shawn A. Johnson, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington Division. Indictments are not an indication of guilt. Seth Allen McAlevy, 22, on or about June 18, grand larceny. Grand jurors in Henry County handed down 105 indictments on Monday, according to records in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office. OUR STORY. He has written about transportation, politics, courts, police, and local government in Maryland and Virginia. Larceny was the most reported and accounted for 15.1% of the index crimes at 396 incidents. An indictment is not an indication of guilt. Vershonda Tamika Renne Lewis, 36, on or about May 16, grand larceny of a motor vehicle. It is estimated that multiple kilograms of cocaine, ounces of crack and hundreds of pounds of marijuana were taken and resold for further illegal distribution in this manner, the release states. 43-year-old Calvin Edward Cabiness, of Martinsville, was indicted for malicious wounding on April 3. "I think it's just a disgrace," said Tommy Hurley, 57, a used-car salesman who said that the area needs more than bad news. Henry County Grand Jury issues 326 indictments. Agents set up a sting for the intended recipient, who told them that he was renting the house from Vaught and acting as a middleman in their drug deals. Paul Travis Edwards, 42, between June 25, 2016, and June 24, 2019, nine counts of aggravated sexual battery by parent. U.S. Attorney John Brownlee announced today that there have been indictments related to the investigation of the unsolved slaying of a Henry County family in 2002. Vaught resigned from the department soon after Reed's arrest and, a few months later, agreed to cooperate with investigators. doc.write('\x3cbody onload\x3d"document._l();"\x3e');doc.close()})(); (function(w){if(!w)return;BOOMR=w.BOOMR||{};BOOMR.plugins=BOOMR.plugins||{};BOOMR.plugins.DuplicateTimersToBeacon={varsAdded:[],onBeforeBeacon:function(beaconData){var tOther=beaconData?beaconData.t_other:false;if(tOther){var tOthers=tOther.split(",");for(var i=0;i... 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