ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, June 8, 1996 TAG: 9606090064
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: VIRGINIA EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
A 39-year-old Salem man told police he was shot in the left thigh during an attempted carjacking in Northwest Roanoke early Friday.
Police said Anthony Eugene Poff told them two men hit him, then shot him, as they tried to take his car. Poff was treated at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where medical personnel called police.
Police said Poff's car was found in the hospital parking lot, but they did not know if he drove himself there. According to a hospital spokeswoman, Poff was in stable condition Friday.
In another incident, a 17-year-old boy was caught after a short foot chase with police and charged with robbing a Yellow Cab driver late Thursday in Northeast Roanoke.
Police gave this account: A cab driver flagged down a patrol officer about 11:51 p.m. and told the officer he had been robbed by a young man who fled in the area of the 400 block of Orange Avenue Northeast. The officer spotted the man and chased him on foot, arresting him at the rear of a gasoline station on Orange Avenue Northeast.
Police said the teen-ager entered the cab on King Charles Avenue Southeast in the Jamestown Place Housing Development. At a light on Williamson Road near Orange Avenue Northeast, the teen-ager showed the driver what appeared to be dynamite, holding it near an open cigarette lighter. The driver gave the teen-ager about $20. Police determined that the teen actually held up a pack of batteries, not dynamite.
No one was injured. The teen was taken to Coyner Springs Juvenile Detention Center.
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