Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1990 TAG: 9003280333
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER SOUTHWEST BUREAU
DATELINE: MARION LENGTH: Short
Michael McGay Reeves also was indicted on charges of injuring jailer Jan A. Blevins and with destroying a watch belonging to Blevins. The jailer was not seriously injured.
The grand jury issued the same three indictments against Joseph Gregory Barcase Jr., also a prisoner at the jail. Barcase was being held on charges including felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon, petty larceny, possession of a stolen vehicle, breaking and entering and forging checks.
The Smyth County Sheriff's Department provided no details Tuesday about the alleged escape attempt.
Reeves, 27, was arrested Oct. 19 and has been charged with the Oct. 13 kidnapping, rape, robbery and attempted murder of a woman in Smyth County who sustained serious stabbing injuries. He also is charged in a knifepoint rape Oct. 17 of a woman in Bristol, Tenn., and another in Knoxville, Tenn.
He also was charged Nov. 28 with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting of a woman in Craven County, N.C.
Authorities have been investigating to see if Reeves could be involved in two Smyth County murders - those of a woman found stabbed to death early July 6 after being abducted July 5 from a store where she worked, and another found beaten to death April 16 - but no charges have been filed in either case.
by CNB