Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 23, 1990 TAG: 9005230043
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-13 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
A Montgomery County grand jury on Friday indicted Edward and Gregory DeHart, both of Christiansburg.
Edward DeHart Jr., 27, was indicted on four counts of breaking and entering and four counts grand larceny. Gregory DeHart, 22, was indicted on one count of each.
Both brothers are accused of breaking into Thompson's Auto Sales on U.S. 11 April 9, 1989, and stealing a Dodge Dynasty.
Edward DeHart is charged with breaking into Thompson's Nov. 26 and stealing a 1984 Chrysler New Yorker.
He also is charged with breaking into Underwood Pontiac on U.S. 460 the following night and stealing $320 and a GMC pickup truck and, that same night, breaking into a Food Time convenience store on NorthFranklin Street and stealing $100 and 2,000 lottery tickets.
The DeHarts were indicted last September in Radford on breaking and entering and grand larceny charges. Gregory DeHart was later convicted but charges against Edward DeHart were dropped.
Edward DeHart also was charged in March in Blacksburg with arson in connection with a fire in March 1989 that damaged New River Realty Inc. on Landsdowne Street.
And Gregory DeHart also pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court earlier this month to 18 related breaking and entering, grand larceny and petty larceny charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 7.
The two face dozens of other charges in Lexington and 16 other jurisdictions in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Police have said items reported stolen in those jurisdictions are valued at $197,000. Police have recovered most of those items, many from a warehouse in Myrtle Beach.
Among others indicted by Friday's grand jury:
Archie William Cooper III, 27, of Route 4, Blacksburg, charged with breaking into the home of James Virgil Lawson of Old Farm Village in Christiansburg in January and maliciously wounding him by beating him with a 2-by-4.
Cooper also is charged with maliciously wounding two other men on separate occasions last November.
Police also arrested Terry Wayne Miller, 26, of Blacksburg early February in connection with Lawson's beating, but those charges were dropped when a grand jury did not find enough evidence to indict him.
Robert Housh Mackey, 39, of Richmond, Ky., charged with possession of 17.7 ounces of marijuana with intent to distribute. He was arrested in Christiansburg last November.
by CNB