Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 1, 1993 TAG: 9309010213
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
An arson warrant issued in Botetourt County charged Earnest Ray Underwood, 37, with burning a double-wide mobile home on a spur of Plantation Road leading to Carvins Cove Dam around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Botetourt County Sheriff Reid Kelly issued a teletype message alerting area police.
The warrant for Underwood was issued after witnesses told police they saw a man matching his description leaving the mobile home shortly before it burned.
The flames from the fire were visible to passersby on Interstate 81.
Kelly said witnesses also told police that threatening statements had been made about a woman who until recently had lived in the mobile home.
In Roanoke, a camping trailer burned Sunday near a construction site on Grandview Road. A man who was keeping his eye on the construction site had been sleeping in it at night and had his belongings inside.
Sources familiar with the city investigation said the man was involved with the woman who was in the domestic dispute with Underwood.
Kelly said Underwood was last seen driving an older model Chevrolet pickup truck with damage on its left side. He is white, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has brown hair and green eyes. Kelly described him as dangerous.
No arrest had been made late Tuesday.
by CNB