Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 9, 1990 TAG: 9003081455
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
William Kyle Thomason, 25, of Indian Rocks Beach, Fla., could receive between five and 40 years in prison and a $100,000 fine on each of the three charges.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Kenneth Devore said he will sentence Thomason July 2 after an evaluation report is prepared.
Thomason, who was indicted by a grand jury Sept. 7, admitted that he sold an eighth of an ounce of cocaine for $210 to a police informant in Blacksburg in August 1988.
He also admitted that a month later he sold 50 hits of LSD for $125 to an undercover state police agent and a week after that sold another 70 hits of LSD for $165 to the same undercover agent.
In other court action Tuesday:
Mikel Wayne Hare, 32, of Route 3, Christiansburg, pleaded guilty to three charges of driving after being declared a habitual offender and a charge of possessing burglary tools.
He was sentenced to one year on each of the driving offenses and three years on the possession charge for a total of six years.
Commonwealth's Attorney Phil Keith explained that Hare had been declared a habitual offender in Wise County in April 1988 and was not allowed to drive. But three times last year - in August, September and November - he was seen driving in Christiansburg by Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy K.J. Light, Keith said.
Twice Hare led Light on high-speed chases through Christiansburg and the second time, in November, Hare was stopped on Interstate 81 and was found to have a set of illegal vending machine keys, Keith said.
Keith dropped a fourth charge of escaping from an officer.
Dewayne J. Cox, 25, of Route 1 Shawsville, was sentenced to two years in jail for criminal solicitation after admitting he tried to persuade a cashier at a local market to help him rob the place.
He pleaded guilty and will begin serving his sentence March 17.
According to Keith, Cox went to the home of a friend who worked at the Village Market in Shawsville. He asked her to help him steal money from the store by handing him cash from the register and then calling the police to report a robbery, "and he'd split the money with her," Keith said.
The woman reported it to the sheriff's Department and Cox was arrested.
by CNB