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

DATE: FRIDAY, July 7, 1995                   TAG: 9507070041
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Medium

12 FORGERY, DRUG INDICTMENTS MADE AGAINST EX-TECH STUDENT

Amro Yehya Omar Khaled, 26, of Blacksburg, was charged with four counts of forging and uttering in November after Virginia Tech police began an investigation. The other eight charges placed by Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Tech police, were added later. Four of the new charges are additional accusations of forging and uttering - or writing and passing - checks at the bookstore and other businesses; two allege felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute; and two accuse Khaled of forging traffic summonses with a false name.

Tech police obtained a search warrant for Khaled's apartment last November after Tech employees notified them of two bounced checks, one for $3,892 to pay tuition and one to the University Bookstore. Both checks were written on an account in the name of Madian Bakri, but had written notations at the top with Khaled's name.

The search warrant indicated officers seized dozens of items, including First Union checks assigned to the name of Madian Bakri. Police believe Bakri is a fictitious name.

Khaled was a sophomore mechanical engineering student at Tech but is no longer enrolled.

The forged traffic summons indictments accuse Khaled of signing the tickets with the name Bakri when he was cited last September for reckless driving and attempting to elude police.

The marijuana charges accuse him of possessing more than one-half ounce of marijuana last November and again in January.

The grand jury also indicted Susan M. Asbury, a former employee of the Montgomery County Department of Social Services, on two charges involving the purchase of tires using a voucher meant for the social services department's use.

One indictment alleges that on March 13, Asbury, 43, of Chris tiansburg, forged the signature "T. Raines," on an invoice from Thompson Tire for four tires sold to the Department of Social Services. The second indictment accuses Asbury of embezzling by using a social services voucher to receive the four tires for her own use.

Commonwealth's Attorney Phil Keith said authorities believe the tires were given to a relative who lives out-of-state.