Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 3, 1994 TAG: 9405030161
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Authorities allege he also found a second wife.
On Monday, a Roanoke Circuit Court grand jury indicted Campbell, 23, on a charge of bigamy.
The indictment alleges that Campbell "unlawfully and feloniously" married Margaret Elaine Moles Campbell on Jan. 31, while still married to Linda Christine Brady Campbell, the wife he left behind in Clifton Forge.
Neither wife apparently was aware the other existed until after the Jan. 31 marriage - Campbell's second since 1989. Campbell was charged after his second wife learned of his previous marriage and notified police, according to Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Wanda DeWease.
According to earlier testimony in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Campbell left his Clifton Forge home in January, telling Linda Campbell he would send for her as soon as he found work and an apartment.
Linda Campbell became concerned after not hearing from her husband for more than two months.
John Campbell, of the 700 block of Third Street, will face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of bigamy, a charge rarely filed in Roanoke.
In other grand jury indictments Monday:
nCory Hargraves, 23, of Salem, was indicted on a charge of carjacking - the first time such a charge has been brought in Roanoke. He also is accused of robbery and attempted abduction in connection with a March 14 incident in which a woman was approached in the Valley View Mall parking lot. The woman told police a robber took her purse and drove her car away after she resisted his efforts to force her into the car.
nDonald Glenn Law, 37, of Salem, was indicted on a charge of attempted capital murder of a Roanoke police officer. Law is accused of brandishing a handgun at Officer C.C. Perkins during an altercation outside a Melrose Avenue nightclub.
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