Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 13, 1995 TAG: 9501130109
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WAYNESBORO - A woman has been charged with shaking a baby so hard that the infant may be blinded or suffer from brain damage.
Beth R. Landes, 35, of Waynesboro was baby-sitting the 4-month-old child Dec. 15. A rescue squad was told the child had fallen, but an investigation concluded that the child's injuries were caused by being shaken, according to Waynesboro police.
Landes was charged with maliciously causing injury to a child. She was released on $10,000 bond.
Police said the infant, who was treated at University of Virginia Hospital and has since been released, faces possible blindness and brain damage.
- Associated Press
Ex-prosecutor admits embezzling
RICHMOND - A former Richmond prosecutor has pleaded guilty to two felony counts involving misuse of an escrow fund in the commonwealth's attorney's office.
A Circuit Court grand jury returned 32 sealed indictments Monday alleging grand larceny and misuse of public funds by David C. Eberhart III. The indictments were unsealed Wednesday after Eberhart agreed to turn himself in.
Before a court appearance, Eberhart reached a plea agreement in which the 32 counts were combined into two.
Judge James B. Wilkinson sentenced Eberhart to suspended prison terms of five years on each of the two counts and ordered him to pay about $1,000 in restitution. Wilkinson also ordered Eberhart to perform 240 hours of community service.
More than $400,000 passed through the so-called white-collar fund, which contained restitution paid by defendants to victims of fraud and expenses that corporate defendants had paid to resolve civil fraud complaints.
Eberhart said he paid about $7,300 to himself from the fund, but insisted he used the money for legitimate expenses of investigating white-collar crime.
- Associated Press
Bomb scare closes street for 10 hours
NEWPORT NEWS - For 10 hours Thursday, authorities rerouted traffic, shut down scores of offices and caused classes to be dismissed - all because a Gloucester man said he had a bomb in the trunk of his car.
Hours after police arrested the man, heavily traveled Denbigh Boulevard remained closed as state police and city firefighters pored over the car, first with a dog named Plastique, then with a robot.
Earlier, bomb technicians had opened the trunk with a detonating device.
Nothing explosive was found in the vehicle, and by 4 p.m. police were removing their traffic cones and waving the afternoon rush hour through as the all-day disruption came to a close.
- Associated Press
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