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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200207
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

50-YEAR TERM GIVEN IN ROBBERY

A Martinsville man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to nine charges, including robbing a Pulaski bank, trying to kill a Pulaski County sheriff's deputy and escaping from a county correctional officer.

Charles G. Baldwin Jr., 27, pleaded guilty Monday in Pulaski County Circuit Court as part of a plea agreement between his attorney, David Warburton of the public defender's office, and Commonwealth's Attorney Everett Shockley.

Baldwin was sentenced by Circuit Judge A. Dow Owens

Baldwin has been held in the Pulaski County Jail since his arrest Dec. 29 in connection with the armed robbery that day of a Signet Bank branch on Virginia 99.

When police tried to arrest Baldwin on that charge at a relative's house near town, he pulled a gun on Pulaski County Lt. Ralph Dobbins and tried to shoot him. Dobbins was not hurt.

Two months later, Baldwin was being led back to the county jail after a hearing at the courthouse when he was able to release his shackles and run from Correctional Officer Brian Wade. Wade chased Baldwin and tackled him, but Baldwin grabbed Wade's gun and again fled.

Baldwin then tried to steal the cars of two passing motorists but was soon stopped and arrested by Pulaski Sgt. Robert VonUchtrup.

Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury in February.

Owens sentenced Baldwin to 14 years on the attempted murder charge, 20 years on the armed robbery charge and 16 years on the seven other charges.

by CNB