Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 24, 1993 TAG: 9306240310
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Short
Roger Lee Dodson, 41, of Pembroke, was shot by the deputy during the escape attempt in January while Dodson was being treated at Radford Community Hospital.
State police and Radford investigators concluded that Deputy Steve Tolbert acted properly.
Dodson was shot in the left side of his chest after a struggle at the door of a secured hospital room. Dodson had been taken to the hospital after he complained of chest pains while at the Floyd County Jail.
He had been arrested two days earlier after being a fugitive from Floyd County charges for four years. Dodson had been wanted since 1989 on charges of sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and grand larceny.
Tuesday, Circuit Judge Duane Mink accepted a plea agreement between Commonwealth's Attorney Randal Duncan and Dodson. Dodson was sentenced to five years in prison on the attempted escape charge with three years suspended; he was given a four-year suspended sentence on the charge of inflicting bodily injury on a correctional officer.
He will get credit for time he already has served awaiting trial; after two years in prison, he will be put on probation for four years.
by CNB