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Courts and Crime

  • 4 years for running over man with truck

        A Bedford County man will spend four years and one month behind bars for running over a man with a pickup truck last year. Thomas Stinnett, 28, pleaded guilty, in Bedford County Circuit Court Tuesday morning, to charges of malicious bodily injury, driving suspended and felony hit and run.
        “In this case, he drove over a male who was with his wife who was estranged,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney John Wheelock.

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  • Guilty: First degree murder

        Charles Edward Glover will spend the better part of the rest of his life—if not all of it—in prison following his guilty pleas to killing a Bedford County man last April.

        Glover, 44, of Goodview pleaded guilty to the first degree murder of Reginald Perry Bowles on April 10, 2012, at Bowles' home on Jeters Chapel Road. Glover also entered guilty pleas to using a firearm in the commission of murder and arson.

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  • NY man arrested on computer solicitation charges

        Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., was arrested on February 25 on 13 counts of “Use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children.”
        Kahn engaged in sexually explicit communications with a person he had reason to believe was a
    minor female in Bedford County.

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  • Charges move on to April grand jury

        A North Carolina man, facing multiple counts of using a computer to solicit a minor, waived a preliminary hearing in Bedford County General District Court Monday, moving the charges on to the April grand jury to consider.

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  • Shell gets 18-year sentence

        Heroin was at the core of the robbery and beating of 80-year-old Bob Terry in Oct. 2011.

        The highly-addictive drug also proved to be the impetus for a plea agreement reached in the case Tuesday in Bedford County Circuit Court.

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  • BCSO arrests 5th suspect in burglary case

        Bedford County Sheriff’s investigators have charged another person in connection with a series of five burglaries in Bedford County. The burglaries occurred between December 24, 2012, and January 4, 2013.

        Tanisha Ping Linette Nelson, 20, of Roanoke, was arrested early Tuesday morning and is being held on a $25,000 bond in the Bedford Adult Detention Center. Nelson was charged with five counts of grand larceny and two counts of larceny of a firearm.

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  • Local store owner faces embezzlement charges

        A local pizza store owner has been charged with four counts of felony embezzlement for allegedly failing to pay taxes, according to Bedford Police Chief Jim Day.
        Gianfranco Greco, 38, the owner of Frank’s Place on E. Main Street, is charged with failing to pay taxes on four different occasions, Day said. He said the city treasurer attempted to work with Greco on getting the taxes paid, but when those efforts failed the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office suggested going ahead with filing the charges.

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  • Three sentenced on burglaries

        When the two men and one woman who broke into a Huddleston home in Dec. 2011 returned to that home to pick  up the merchandise they planned to take, a surprise was waiting for them — the owners of that home and two neighbors.

        One of those neighbors, Dave Vaden, had a gun.
        Two of the suspects were detained until authorities could show up; the third took off and was on the loose for more than a month.

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  • Ten face federal drug charges

        A Federal Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has charged 10 individuals with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of a variety of prescription drugs, as well as other charges.

        In an indictment returned under seal on January 17, 2013, and unsealed last Wednesday following the defendants’ initial court appearances, the grand jury has charged the following:

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  • Break-in arrests

        Beverly Stanley never expected to get all the items back that were stolen from her home when it was broken into Jan. 4.
        But there was one item—worth very little, if anything—that she had to have back: her nine-year-old laptop.
        That was not because of its value, but because of what was stored inside, several years worth of family photos. To Stanley, those were priceless.
        Some good police work, and a bit of luck, helped her wish come true.

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