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

DATE: SUNDAY, July 1, 1990                   TAG: 9006290311
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

GETS 15-YEAR SENTENCE

Johnny Darrell Hughes, 21, of 716 Fifth Street, was sentenced last week to 15 years in prison on two charges of auto larceny and two charges of attempted malicious wounding.

Hughes was charged in August 1989 with stealing a large truck belonging to Virginia Hardware Block & Supply Co., said Commonwealth's Attorney Everett Shockley. Hughes took the truck to an acquaintance's apartment in Pulaski, where he intentionally drove it into the apartment building, Schockley said.

Hughes spent about two months in jail after he was charged. In October, about a week after he was released on bail, he was charged with stealing the same truck.

Shockley said Hughes led police on a chase through the county and into Radford, where the truck was found wrecked and abandoned.

Hughes almost ran over a deputy who was standing on U.S. 11 near Slaughterhouse Road, signaling for Hughes to stop, Shockley said. He was then charged with attempted malicious wounding.

by CNB