THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Thursday, October 24, 1996 TAG: 9610240316
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A body found floating in the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River on Wednesday has been sent to the State Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy, police said.
The body of Michael John McQuaid, 28, of the 5900 block of Appleton Court was spotted about 4:45 p.m. floating 10 feet from shore off the 5800 block of Lancelot Drive near Interstate 64.
Paramedics pronounced McQuaid dead at the scene shortly after he was pulled ashore.
Police spokesman Lou Thurston said there were no apparent signs of trauma on the body. But much of the body was covered with silt and mud, which was not removed pending the Medical Examiner's investigation.
``It does appear as though the body had been in the water for some time,'' Thurston said. has upheld a stiff jury recommendation against a convicted drug dealer.
Judge John K. Moore on Wednesday let stand a July 23 sentence of 75 years in prison for 22-year-old Nelson Dollar Smith. Smith also was fined $800,000.
Smith, of the 4900 block of Paine Lane in Virginia Beach, was convicted of selling .50 grams of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer Oct. 25, 1994.
He also was convicted of arranging the sale of .75 grams of crack cocaine a day later. Both sales were made at a 7-Eleven parking lot within 1,000 feet of Bayside High School.
On Tuesday Judge Kenneth N. Whitehurst Jr. let stand a June 11 jury recommendation for 27-year-old Eugene Smalls, a native of the Virgin Islands. Smalls was sentenced to 90 years in prison and fined $1 million for importing one kilogram of crack cocaine into the commonwealth from St. Thomas.
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