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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 20, 1990                   TAG: 9004200349
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: STATE 
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CHARGES SENT TO GRAND JURY IN FOREST ATTACK

A Smyth County grand jury will consider charges against a Marion man accused of attacking a U.S. Forest Service employee in October.

Michael M. Reeves is charged with two counts of robbery, two counts of sodomy, attempted capital murder and abduction in connection with the Oct. 13 attack.

Smyth County General District Judge David Brown certified the charges following a preliminary hearing Thursday.

Reeves, 27, also is the focal point of four murder investigations in North Carolina and Virginia. He has been charged with one murder in North Carolina and two rapes in Tennessee.

According to police reports, the Forest Service employee was taken from an office at Mount Rogers Recreational Area along Virginia 16.

Her throat was cut and she was stabbed in the chest, but she survived.

Police said the suspect had come into the office asking about maps and horse trails. He robbed the woman and the office, forced her into a truck and drove into the mountains, police said.

The grand jury will convene June 26.

by CNB