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

DATE: THURSDAY, August 17, 1995                   TAG: 9508170024
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: RADFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

RADFORD MAN FACES SENTENCING AFTER DRUG AND LARCENY PLEAS

A 19-year-old Radford man remains in Radford City Jail without bond following guilty pleas in Circuit Court on two grand larceny charges and four felony drug charges, including one count of distributing cocaine while serving jail time.

Sentencing for Christopher Kilondo Laieke of the 100 block of P.T. Travis Avenue is set for Sept. 13 in Radford Circuit Court, according to Commonwealth's Attorney Randal Duncan.

Laieke was among eight men indicted March 20 by a grand jury on charges of distributing crack cocaine last summer, but he already was in jail by then for a previous conviction. An additional distribution count resulted after Laieke brought cocaine into the city jail last November while serving weekends on an earlier General District Court conviction, Duncan said.

The grand larceny charges stemmed from his arrest in December for stealing a church van and a car stereo in the spring of 1994.

Duncan said Laieke pleaded guilty to the drug distribution charges July 17 and to the grand larceny charges Aug. 11.

Laieke could get a maximum of 160 years plus $2 million in fines on the cocaine distribution convictions, plus up to 20 years apiece for the grand larceny charges.

"I look for him to get some substantial prison time because of his previous criminal history," Duncan said Wednesday.

by CNB