Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 25, 1994 TAG: 9406290074
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: VIRGINIA EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Isreal Alexander Lovewine, 21, of Glasgow, faces two counts of sodomy and two counts of abduction with intent to defile in connection with incidents in which two teen-age boys were forced into allowing a man to perform oral sex on them.
He could face four life terms if convicted.
``He confessed to everything,'' Roanoke County Police Detective D.J. Herrick said Friday afternoon.
The offenses, which occurred in Roanoke, Roanoke County and Botetourt County, were investigated jointly by law-enforcement agencies in all three jurisdictions.
Botetourt County Sheriff Reed Kelly said Lovewine made a statement before his arrest. Kelly said that statement led police to charge him. Kelly said his department's policy does not allow him to confirm whether Lovewine admitted guilt.
Roanoke police confirmed Friday that Lovewine had made a statement, but they declined to say whether he confessed.
Thursday evening, the two teen-age boys positively identified Lovewine in a photographic lineup provided by police, sources said.
The lineup contained pictures of Lovewine and other men matching the general description of the suspect provided by witnesses.
Lovewine was taken into custody at his home earlier Thursday after an informant told police he resembled a computer-generated composite of the suspect.
Police also had made it known that they were looking for a 1984 Ford EXP with 30-day tags in connection with the case. Lovewine recently purchased a 1985 Ford EXP.
Lovewine told Botetourt General District Judge Louis Campbell on Friday that he could not afford an attorney. Campbell appointed Roanoke lawyer Tom Wray to defend him.
Campbell left Lovewine's bond at $100,000 until his attorney could arrange for a bond-reduction hearing.
A Catawba teen-ager reported earlier this month that a man performed oral sex on him after abducting him on Virginia 311 in Roanoke County. The youth, who was with a group of teen-age boys, got into the car with the man after he identified himself as a ``Roanoke investigator.''
The teen-ager was driven to Cloverdale, where the man began performing oral sex on him. He stopped when a Botetourt County deputy pulled into the area where the man was parked.
The deputy allowed him to leave without questioning because he thought the man was with his girlfriend. The teen-ager did not yell for help.
In March, another teen-ager was abducted in the parking lot of Hechinger's near Valley View Mall by a man who identified himself as ``Officer Brown.'' He was taken to Cloverdale, where he, too, was sodomized.
by CNB