ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, June 14, 1996 TAG: 9606140041
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER
A Lynch Station man charged with grand larceny for the theft of a radio that Bedford Sheriff's Office investigators believe was used to make fake emergency calls pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor.
Rodney Anthony, 21, pleaded guilty in Bedford County General District Court to one count of interfering with property rights. He had originally been charged with grand larceny. Judge James Updike gave him a 30-day suspended sentence.
Deputy Scott Arney, who is a volunteer firefighter, lost the emergency fire radio in a scuffle with an unruly crowd at Bedford County Memorial Hospital in February. Soon after that, police say someone used the radio to taunt police with fake calls.
There was no evidence that Anthony made the calls. Sheriff's investigators traced the radio to him while he was staying in the Raintree Apartment complex in Bedford.
The fight at the hospital broke out following a shotgun shooting in Moneta that wounded David Foxx of Body Camp and Reva Price of Bedford.
Friends of Foxx and Price fought with police after they were asked to clear the hospital entrance. Two cousins, Mickey and Buford Crider, of Moneta and Altavista respectively, were found guilty of assaulting the officers.
George Arthur English of Franklin County was charged with two counts of malicious wounding in the shooting. He remains free on bond and is scheduled to stand trial Aug. 2.
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