Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 22, 1991 TAG: 9103220327
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN
SOURCE: MELANIE S. HATTER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Lisa Sines bit and otherwise assaulted a state trooper after authorities tried to arrest her brother, Curtis Wayne Sines.
Curtis Sines also pleaded guilty to malicious wounding, according to Bedford Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Philip Baker.
Baker gave the following account from court testimony:
Curtis Sines had been arguing with his girlfriend, Patsy Carnes, in their trailer home in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park. When park caretakers Gloria and Andrew Jones went to see what was going on, Curtis Sines threatened them with a knife.
Lisa Sines explained that her brother was drunk and tried to calm him down. But he left, returned with a shotgun and fired it into the air and at the Joneses' trailer. He then shot out the tires of a car that belonged to someone who had been visiting the Joneses.
When police arrived they tried to arrest Curtis Sines, but he resisted and pulled out his knife again. Seeing the struggle, Lisa Sines decided to help her brother.
Police officers told her that if she stayed out of it they wouldn't arrest her. But she continued to taunt the officers with abusive language.
Deputy Robert Foutz of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department tried to arrest her at her trailer. Lisa Sines took three plates from her home and smashed them over Foutz's head. Using a sharp edge of a broken plate, she cut his fingers.
When State Police Sgt. A.W. Rush came to help Foutz, Lisa Sines bit him and shut herself in her trailer.
Foutz and Rush were unable to get inside and decided to take the door off the hinges. They finally took her into custody.
In court Thursday, Judge William Sweeney sentenced Curtis Sines to five years in jail. Sines also agreed to pay for damages.
Lisa Sines faces five years each for two counts of malicious wounding and is to be sentenced later.
by CNB