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Courts and Crime

  • Fields sentenced on fraud charges

        A Bedford County man who was a fugitive from justice for more than a year was sentenced last week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg on a variety of fraud charges.

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  • Forest convenience store robbed

    At 10:05 p.m. Monday night, Bedford County 911 dispatchers received a call from the Quik-E Food Mart in Forest reporting a robbery.

    According to a report from the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, the caller stated that a black male with black framed glasses, carrying a gray sweater and wearing jeans and a black T-shirt entered the store. He threatened the clerk and demanded money. After getting the money, the suspect left on foot and ran towards Graves Mill Road behind the store, the BCSO report stated.

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  • BCSO: Shooting leads to charges being filed

    A shooting that occurred at a Huddleston residence Wednesday night has led to a number of charges being filed.

    According to a report from the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, at 10 p.m. Wednesday night, Bedford County dispatchers received a call from Jody Roach of Roach Town Road Huddleston, stating that she had fired a gun through her door at two subjects standing outside of her residence.

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  • Manhunt going on in Wyndhurst area; looking for suspects

    Bedford County deputies, assisted by Lynchburg authorities, were conducting a search for two armed robbery suspects in the Wyndhurst area, assisted by Lynchburg area police, according to reports.

    Several Lynchburg schools were on lockdown during the search. A helicopter was also being utilized.

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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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