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PROBATION VIOLATION RESULTS IN 10 YEARS OF CONFINEMENT FOR BUCHANAN COUNTY MAN On March 11th, 2015, Doyle Mullins, 44, of Vansant, Virginia pled guilty to violating his probation and was ordered to spend the next 5 years in a Virginia prison, and immediately after his release, to spend his first 5 years of probation…
SENTENCES LEVIED IN MURDER OF BUCHANAN COUNTY MAN On February 27, 2015, Christopher Lee Ramey was sentenced to serve 17 years in a Virginia prison following a lengthy sentencing hearing in the Buchanan County Circuit Court. Last October, the 32 year-old Pike County, Kentucky man pled guilty to the murder of Freddie…
CHILD MOLESTER SENTENCED TO 101 YEARS On January 27th, 2015, Bernard Joe Kennedy, 29, of the Hurley, Virginia was sentenced to 101 years of incarceration with 86 years of that sentence suspended on the condition that the Defendant be on active supervised probation for the rest of his life. Kennedy had previously pled guilty…
METH CONSPIRATORS TO SERVE 6 YEARS OR MORE IN PRISON On February 4th, 2015, Marilyn Hill and Danny Justus of Buchanan County were sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Hill received a sentence of 27 years in a Virginia prison with 21 years of that sentence being suspended on the condition…
BURGLAR SENTENCED TO 90 YEARS On March 19th, 2014, Adam Jeremiah Bowman, 29, of Haysi, Virginia was sentenced to 90 years in prison in the Buchanan County Circuit Court pertaining to his convictions on three counts of Burglary, two counts of Conspiracy to Commit Burglary, four counts of Destruction of Property, three counts of…
On March 13, 2014, a Buchanan County Circuit Court judge sentenced Gregory Mark Dotson, 59, of Hurley, Virginia to more than 117 years in a Virginia prison for his part in more than 20 felony drug charges, including 7 counts of distribution of a schedule II controlled substance. Dotson will serve eighteen years of this…
CONVICTED MURDERER SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS FOR MALICIOUS WOUNDING OF A CORRECTIONS OFFICER On February 11th, 2014, Elbert Smith, 42, was found guilty by a jury in the Buchanan County Circuit Court pertaining to his indictment for malicious wounding. During the trial, the Commonwealth introduced evidence and testimony that while incarcerated at Keene Mountain Correctional…
On January 29, 2014, Kevin Wayne Berglowe, 46, of Hurley, Virginia was sentenced to more than 35 years in prison following a lengthy sentencing hearing in the Buchanan County Circuit Court pertaining to his convictions for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession of more than 5 pounds of marijuana with the intent to…
On January 29, 2014, Laura Click, 29, of Big Rock, Virginia was sentenced to spend the next 10 years in prison following a sentencing hearing in the Buchanan County Circuit Court resulting from her conviction for conspiracy to commit robbery. According to Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerald Arrington, on November 23, 2011, David Gilbert and his…
On June 5, John Haven Goble, 34, of Grundy, Virginia, was scheduled to appear in the Buchanan County Circuit Court for sentencing in connection with charges of Abduction and Assault on a Police Officer. While walking from the jail van to the courthouse, Goble’s father approached him and handed him two suboxone strips, a…