ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, June 4, 1996 TAG: 9606040064
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
Michael A. Obremski, who was charged last month with making sexually threatening telephone calls to Roanoke-area girls, was accused Monday of additional offenses dating back two years.
A grand jury in Roanoke Circuit Court indicted Obremski on nine charges of threatening either to abduct or rape girls who were younger than 14.
Obremski was charged with two similar offenses last month, shortly after Roanoke County police arrested him on a charge of threatening a girl over the telephone.
In the Roanoke County case, police said the call was made from a pay telephone around the corner from Obremski's room at a Williamson Road motel.
Chief Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Betty Jo Anthony said all of the offenses fit the same pattern - young girls receiving sexually explicit telephone calls shortly after their names appeared in listings in the Neighbors section of The Roanoke Times. The girls all had unusual last names that made them easy to find in a telephone directory.
Obremski, 42, was arrested last month after a 21/2-year investigation of threatening and obscene telephone calls made to scores of girls in Roanoke, Roanoke County and Botetourt County.
The indictments returned Monday accused him of making nine calls to Roanoke girls in 1994 and 1995. Shortly after he was arrested last month, a Roanoke County judge ordered Obremski held without bond.
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