
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990                   TAG: 9004060582
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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TEEN-AGER IS GUILTY OF ROBBERY, BEATING

An 18-year-old man was convicted Thursday of beating and robbing the manager of a Roanoke clothing store and then leaving him tied up in one of the store's changing rooms.

George Henry Hill III of Lynchburg pleaded guilty to abduction and robbery and no contest to a charge of malicious wounding during a hearing in Roanoke Circuit Court.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in June.

Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Ann Hill gave the following summary of the Dec. 12 robbery of New York Fashion Inc. on Campbell Avenue:

Hill and another man entered the store, browsed for a short time and then left. They later returned with a juvenile when the store was empty.

When store manager Harinder S. Maghera attempted to wait on the men, he was struck in the head and then dragged to a back room.

The robbers continued to strike and kick Maghera. Then they bound him with rope and left him in the room.

Before fleeing the store, the robbers took an undetermined amount of cash and about $1,000 worth of clothing.

Maghera was treated for bruises and cuts on his face and head.

by CNB