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

DATE: SATURDAY, June 9, 1990                   TAG: 9006090366
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By Laurence Hammack
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TIRE-SLASHER SENTENCED

A Roanoke man charged with slashing 41 car tires in Old Southwest was sentenced Friday to the time he has already served in jail awaiting trial - about six weeks.

Donald Lewis Harris, 25, also was ordered to pay the cost of repairing the tires - about $3,700.

At a hearing in Roanoke General District Court, Harris pleaded guilty to one count of property damage. The remaining 40 counts were taken under advisement.

Harris, of Marshall Avenue Southwest, was arrested April 25 and charged with a series of tire slashings in the Old Southwest neighborhood the previous weekend. Many of the cars, parked in residential areas, had more than one tire damaged.

Authorities said the tire-slashing spree started with a car belonging to a person Harris was angry with for an unknown reason, and then escalated to the point that he began to select random cars.

by CNB