
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 8, 1994                   TAG: 9410100048
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

MAN INDICTED ON PEEPING CHARGE

A Roanoke County grand jury has indicted bail bondsman Roger Roberts on two counts each of trespassing and peeping into an occupied dwelling.

Roberts, who runs Allstate Bonding Co. in Salem, was charged with the offenses after Roanoke County police received complaints of a possible "Peeping Tom" in the area of the Sans Souci and The Mews apartment complexes.

Police staked out the complexes and arrested Roberts Sept. 21, said prosecutor Skip Burkart.

Roberts has three previous convictions for window-peeping.

Three other charges were dismissed or reversed on appeal when he explained he was peering into windows of Roanoke County homes in search of bond-jumpers.

Last year, Roberts promised a Roanoke County judge that he would notify police before venturing into apartment complexes or subdivisions to search out wayward clients.

by CNB