News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | May 2, 2024
News Archives for December, 2010
Co. 2 Santa Run is Dec. 13-17
Quinton Volunteer Fire and EMS (Co. 2) annual Santa Run is Dec. 13-17. Santa leaves the Quinton fire station at 6 p.m. each night. The schedule is subject to change due to emergency calls or weather conditions (for make-up dates call 966-8772). Families living on dead end roads, cul-de-sacs, and private roads are asked to come out to main roads listed on the schedule. Monday, Dec. 13- Route 249 west to Kenleigh Drive to Dispatch Road; north to Orapax Farms, Woods Edge, and Thompson Road; Dispatch north to Quaker Road then to Sherwood Estates, South Quaker to Quaker Woods Drive,…
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Plea deals for trio indicted for marijuana distribution
Three individuals swept up by a task force charged with cracking down on illegal drug trafficking in New Kent have cut plea deals in county circuit court. Brandon Alexander Black, 20, and Angela Dawn Camper, 44, both of 4506 Chipoax Avenue in Richmond, and Robert Walton Myles Jr., 21, of 2605 New Kent Highway, Quinton, pleaded guilty to at least one charge each in court on Monday. Black had been the target of a Twin Rivers Narcotics Task Force investigation earlier this year, commonwealth’s attorney Linwood Gregory told the court. Camper and Myles incurred charges by being present on a…
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Defendant’s blood/alcohol excuse doesn’t gel with judge
A defendant’s explanation as to why his blood/alcohol content registered .20, more than twice the legal limit for driving drunk — he unknowingly consumed a bowl of spiked gelatin before leaving a party in Charles City. The judge hearing the case did not buy it. Michael Lee Wallace Jr., 37, of 11805 Conora Lane in Charles City, pleaded guilty at an earlier trial in Charles City Circuit Court to one count each of felony attempting to elude police and misdemeanor DUI. As part of a plea deal, a charge of cocaine possession was dropped. At sentencing on Nov. 19, Wallace…
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Efficiency studies approved
Charles City School Board members have approved two efficiency studies, both to take place at no cost to the county. Voting during their Nov. 16 meeting, board members authorized a building efficiency study aimed at utility expenses and potential cost savings in that area. Schools’ administrative services director Melvin Robertson said savings of up to $87,000 could be realized on an annual basis while long-range, the amount could approach $1 million. The second study, targeting transportation efficiency, examines such matters as the schools’ two-tier bus schedule along with potential fuel cost reductions. Robertson said no estimated savings are available for…
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Defendant in NK ambulance drug thefts cuts plea deal
A New Kent man, who was turned down as a fire/rescue volunteer, has pleaded guilty to stealing narcotics from an ambulance drug box plus separate charges of unlawful entry and grand larceny stemming from a break-in at a private residence. Clayton Douglas Musselman, 22, of 7249 Airport Road, entered the pleas on Nov. 15 in New Kent Circuit Court. As part of a plea deal, a second misdemeanor count of narcotics theft along with a pair of controlled substance possession charges were dropped. Musselman had been indicted on a burglary count relating to the residence break-in, but the plea agreement…
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‘Suspicious’ fires in Charles City under investigation
Investigators are stopping short of calling it arson, but five structure fires on three separate occasions in the same area along the Chickahominy River waterfront in Charles City County are being labeled “suspicious.” All three incidents occurred last month starting in the early morning hours on Nov. 5 when fire destroyed two unoccupied house trailers and a nearby shed. Then overnight on Nov. 15, a boathouse burned, and the latest occurred overnight on Nov. 19-20 when fire consumed a single-story, unoccupied house located near the boathouse. No injuries have been reported, but estimates place the damage thus far at close…
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Suspect in NK abduction, assault found in Oklahoma
A manhunt has ended for the suspect sought following a Sunday afternoon assault inside a Providence Forge auto dealership that sent a mother and her teenage daughter to a local hospital. Authorities in Oklahoma arrested Donald Thomas Barone, 60, without incident around 9 p.m. local time Tuesday night. Police in Muskogee, Okla., found the fugitive hiding inside the residence of a relative. Barone apparently had driven there in the same black 2001 Nissan sedan bearing Virginia tags DBARONE that New Kent authorities had been searching for since the incident. Barone was living in a back room at the Car Guys…
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Carter convicted again
Former fugitive John Steven Carter now stands convicted on six of seven felony counts incurred in New Kent. Yesterday (Wednesday), a county circuit court judge found the 58 year-old self-proclaimed “medicinal botanist” guilty on two counts each of forgery and uttering in connection with signing a deceased friend’s name on a pair of traffic summonses back in 2006. In October, meanwhile, Carter was convicted on marijuana manufacturing and distribution charges. But the verdict on the seventh felony — possession of a firearm by a convicted felon — remains up in the air. At the conclusion of yesterday’s three-hour trial, Judge…
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