Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 11, 1990 TAG: 9005110349
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: LESLIE TAYLOR STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Loxley Walters, who had been missing since November, turned himself in to authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, last month. Walters was to be a key government witness in the trial of Robert G. Wright, who earlier this week was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for his participation in a drug ring that smuggled cocaine from Miami to Roanoke.
Walters, who had been indicted with Wright and four others, had pleaded guilty to crack-distribution charges and had agreed to testify against Wright.
A relative of Walters phoned U.S. Probation Officer Hugh Ennis last month to tell him that Walters had turned himself in at a police station just outside Cleveland. Authorities there had failed to call up a warrant for Walters' arrest by computer and needed to verify through Ennis that Walters was a wanted man, Ennis said.
Walters told Ennis he turned himself in because "his conscience had been bothering him," Ennis said. Walters also told him he had been working in Jamaica as a hotel chef during his disappearance.
Authorities have filed a motion to forfeit a property bond set when Walters was arraigned last August. Walters' in-laws in Cleveland could lose their home.
Walters, 36, is awaiting sentencing.
by CNB