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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990                   TAG: 9007260504
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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MINIMUM TERM GIVEN IN ASSAULT ON AGENT

A Buchanan man who was convicted of trying to run over a federal agent with a pickup truck during a drug sweep has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge James Turk chose to sentence Toguri Daguino Lee to the lower end of what the federal-sentencing guidelines mandated. Guidelines put Lee's sentencing range at 18 to 24 months.

Lee, 37, had been charged with assault in connection with an incident in Northwest Roanoke last year in which a pickup truck he was driving came within inches of hitting Joseph Kirkland, a special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Kirkland was among a number of law-enforcement officers who were conducting a drug sweep the night of Oct. 20 in the area of Fifth Street and Harrison Avenue Northwest in Roanoke.

by CNB