ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, February 22, 1997 TAG: 9702240061
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: FINCASTLE
SOURCE: MATT CHITTUM
A Botetourt County judge certified charges of attempted malicious wounding and hit-and-run to the grand jury Friday against Timothy Lamb, the result of a chase that ended when Lamb reportedly rammed his truck into a car driven by the person who was chasing him.
Lamb was convicted Friday of reckless driving.
Lamb testified that a man jumped into the back of his truck in Roanoke and tried to stab him with a piece of metal Feb. 1. Paul Wright told Roanoke police he jumped in the truck because Lamb had robbed him of $50.
Lamb testified he drove through Roanoke trying to toss Wright out of the back of the truck until Wright jumped out.
But Garland Linkous of Blacksburg testified that he saw Wright thrown from the truck. He picked up Wright and followed Lamb onto a dead-end road in southern Botetourt County where Lamb ran his truck into the car Linkous was driving, Linkous said.
Lamb fled the scene, he said Friday, because he feared for his life. Police arrested him that night.
He was sentenced to 30 days in jail on the reckless driving charge, but remains free on bond. The next Botetourt grand jury meets March 3.
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