Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 24, 1995 TAG: 9502240069
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Officer John Anthony Goad, 22, received severe stab wounds to his forearm and the back of his head as he tried to apprehend a man who was trying to break into a home on Fourth Street.
May, 29, also was indicted on six charges of impeding a police officer.
Officers went to the Fourth Street apartment on Dec. 15 when Susan Jones called to report that a man, whom she identified as May, her ex-boyfriend, was attempting to break in. She stayed on the phone with dispatchers as officers responded. Police said Goad and other officers found May between two locked doors. Officers said when they kicked through the first door, Goad confronted May, who was armed with a knife.
The grand jury also indicted a former Pulaski pharmacy technician on three charges of obtaining drugs by fraud.
The indictments allege that James Richard McClanahan, 51, of Route 1, Pulaski, embezzled Tylenol 4s, which contain codeine, from Pulaski Drugs last September, said Robert Kemmler, an assistant special agent with the Virginia State Police Pharmaceutical Diversion Unit.
The three charges are Class 6 felonies, which each carry possible sentences of one to five years in prison, Kemmler said.
McClanahan worked at the drug store as a pharmacist's assistant from 1987 until last October, said store owner Guy Gentry.
McClanahan was on the board of the Pulaski County CADRE, a citizens' anti-drug organization that disbanded last year. Its president and founder was Winsdon Pound, who works at Saint Albans and is a former Pulaski County educator.
McClanahan "made some excellent contributions to our group when he was there. He couldn't always attend our board meetings because of his work," Pound said.
Staff writer Paul Dellinger contributed information for this article.
by CNB