Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1990                   TAG: 9004110423
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PEARISBURG                                 LENGTH: Medium

TEEN'S STEPDAD INDICTED ON SEXUAL ASSAULT

The girl is now 14. Her stepfather, whose name is not being published to protect her identity, was to have been arrested late Tuesday by Giles County sheriff's deputies.

A grand jury indicted the man on two counts of statutory rape, six counts of attempted rape, six counts of attempted forcible sodomy, six counts of aggravated sexual assault and nine counts of taking indecent liberties with a child.

The assaults are reported to have occurred between Oct. 20, 1986, and Dec. 31, 1989, according to the indictments. That means the girl would have been 11 when she was first assaulted.

Gary Price, investigator with the Giles County Sheriff's Department, said the assaults were reported by the girl in January after her mother and stepfather separated.

The girl told a family friend, Price said.

After interviewing the girl, investigators had compiled enough evidence to bring the charges, Price said.

He said the man, who works in Pulaski County, moved out of their home in Pembroke and now lives with friends and in hotels around Giles County.

Also indicted was a Pembroke couple arrested in December in connection with the largest marijuana bust in Giles County history.

Stanley W. Miller, 47, and Jo Ann Miller, 48, of Pembroke, each were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

The Millers were arrested when sheriff's investigators seized about 50 pounds of marijuana valued at $120,000 from their home.

In a previous hearing, investigators displayed two of the 14 large plastic garbage bags stuffed with marijuana that they say was found in the Millers' Snyder Street home.

Also at that hearing, Jo Ann Miller told a judge that she had nothing to do with the marijuana and that it belonged to her husband. Stanley Miller has claimed the drugs were for his personal use.