Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 7, 1994 TAG: 9409070129
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Isreal Alexander Lovewine, 21, of Glasgow, is charged with abduction and sodomy.
The two victims testified at an earlier hearing that Lovewine posed as a police officer when he approached them in shopping center parking lots and drove them to Cloverdale, where they were sodomized in his car.
At a hearing Tuesday in Roanoke County Circuit Court, defense attorney Tom Wray said Lovewine has broken down in tears whenever he tries to explain what happened.
"He is psychologically unable to go through with this," Wray said.
An evaluation ordered by Judge Roy Willett will seek to determine Lovewine's competency to stand trial as well as his mental state at the time of the offense.
Roanoke County Commonwealth's Attorney Skip Burkart did not oppose Wray's motion seeking a psychiatric evaluation.
Lovewine has been in jail since June, when he was arrested in connection with the sexual attacks on two juveniles, 14 and 15, in March and June.
The juveniles testified that Lovewine approached them in parking lots of businesses under the guise of a police officer investigating crimes they allegedly had been involved in.
The boys then were driven to a parking lot near a grocery store in Cloverdale, where they testified that Lovewine performed oral sex on them. Both juveniles testified at a July 19 preliminary hearing in Botetourt County that Lovewine threatened to hurt them if they tried to flee.
by CNB