Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 1, 1993 TAG: 9310010056
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Medium
But the jury could not decide on a second cocaine-distribution charge against Anthony Jerome Goins Jr., 22, and a new trial will be held Nov. 12, Commonwealth's Attorney Randal Duncan said.
Goins was indicted earlier this year on the two drug charges. The jury found him guilty of a Feb. 14 offense, handing up a $25,000 fine along with the prison sentence. The Nov. 12 trial will consider a March 28 offense.
The jury deliberated for about two hours before delivering the split verdict.
Duncan said an undercover informant met Radford detectives Todd Jones and Wayne Frye on Feb. 14 and was given a recording device and $100.
The informant went to an apartment in the 600 block of Pendleton Street in west Radford where he met Goins and other people.
Duncan said the informant bought 0.39 grams of rock cocaine with the $100.
Duncan said the hung jury on the second charge was the result of alibi witnesses who testified they were with Goins at the time of the alleged offense. The informant could not have purchased cocaine from him then because the car he was traveling in had broken down near Dixie Caverns, they testified.
Last week, Goins pleaded guilty to charges of distributing cocaine, malicious wounding and abduction in Pulaski County.
For that charge, Goins was sentenced to 30 years in prison with half the time suspended. After serving 15 years, he will be placed on probation for five years. He was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and make restitution to the teen-age boy who was injured.
The 15-year-old Dublin teen-ager testified at a preliminary hearing earlier this year that he was walking on Baskerville Street when three men - including Goins - approached him and accused him of working with police.
A few days earlier, a Radford grand jury had handed up the indictments against Goins.
The 15-year-old told authorities he was beaten with a baseball bat and threatened with a razor-knife.
by CNB