Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 24, 1993 TAG: 9304240311
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
The teen was beaten with a baseball bat Wednesday.
Ethan T. Charlton, 18, of Foundry Place, Radford, was charged with malicious wounding. He was released on bond Friday afternoon and is scheduled to be arraigned in Pulaski County General District Court on May 6.
The Pulaski County sheriff's office has also obtained warrants against Anthony Goins, 22, of Roanoke, on charges of abduction and malicious wounding. As of Friday afternoon, Goins had not been arrested. Goins also had been indicted by a Radford grand jury this week, accused of two counts of distributing cocaine.
Juvenile petitions charging a 17-year-old boy from Radford with abduction and malicious wounding also will be obtained, a sheriff's office investigator said.
About 2 p.m. Wednesday, the teen-age boy was abducted at knife point from Baskerville Street in Dublin and taken to railroad tracks near the livestock market on U.S. 11, according to the sheriff's office.
The youth was able to get away from his attackers during a struggle. He went to a convenience store, where an ambulance arrived and took him to Radford Community Hospital. Authorities said the injuries were serious, but the boy was treated and released.
During an investigation, the sheriff's office learned that the youth was beaten because his attackers thought he was an informant for the Radford police, who this week announced drug charges against 39 people after a six-month investigation.
Pulaski County authorities say there is no evidence the boy was an informant, adding that police don't use juveniles as informants.
by CNB