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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1991                   TAG: 9102270465
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
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MAN CAUGHT WITH MOONSHINE PLEADS GUILTY

A Henry County man caught hauling 150 gallons of moonshine through Charlottesville in September pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of untaxed alcoholic spirits.

Charles Calvin Motley, 49, of Axton, was fined $500 in Albemarle County General District Court. He also was ordered to perform community service in lieu of six months in jail.

Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Ford Childress argued that Motley should serve time behind bars even though he had no criminal record.

"It was part organized crime," Childress said after the hearing. "It's not a good old boy giving a good old boy a bottle."

Childress said he believed the moonshine was distilled in Franklin or Henry County and that Motley had been hired to transport it north to a buyer.

Motley had told authorities he was hauling the moonshine, stored in one-gallon plastic jugs, to a drop-off point in Fauquier County.

Motley was arrested at 3:40 a.m. on Sept. 17 after a state trooper stopped him for running a red light on U.S. 29, a few miles north of Charlottesville.

by CNB