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

DATE: TUESDAY, January 21, 1992                   TAG: 9201210075
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

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WYTHE NATIVE NAMED STATE POLICE CAPTAIN

Virginia State Police Lt. Charles L. Fraley Jr., a Wytheville native formerly assigned to 6th Division headquarters in Salem, was promoted to captain this month and became commander of communications for the department and eight other state agencies.

He succeeds Capt. Braxton Bell, who retired Jan. 1.

Fraley graduated from George Wythe High School in 1954 and attended Lincoln Memorial University until he joined the department as a dispatcher at administrative headquarters in Chesterfield County in 1956.

He became a trooper in 1960 and was assigned to Giles County. He moved to Suffolk in 1964, but returned to Giles in 1974 after being promoted to investigator. He moved to Appomattox as headquarters sergeant in 1956 and first sergeant in 1978. He was promoted to headquarters lieutenant for the Salem division in 1983 and field lieutenant in 1988.

He and his wife, Melanie, will move to Chesterfield County.

- Southwest bureau

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