Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 19, 1990 TAG: 9005190355
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The decision by Stanley Leonard Maxey Jr., 19, to forgo a preliminary hearing in Roanoke General District Court means his case will go straight to a grand jury.
Maxey is charged with trying to hire someone to kill a Roanoke businessman, Robert L. Chewning.
Maxey was charged April 22 after an undercover vice officer was approached at a Roanoke nightclub by a man who began to talk of hiring someone to kill Chewning.
The vice officer arranged a deal in which another police detective posed as a "hit man" and was paid for the killing before the arrest was made.
Maxey has told police that he owed a major debt and was "desperate for funds to pay it." The debt was not owed to Chewing, who operates a used-car dealership in Roanoke.
by CNB