Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 10, 1993 TAG: 9307100160
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: FLOYD LENGTH: Medium
Dodson, 41, was given a five-year suspended prison sentence in Floyd County Circuit Court. He also pleaded no contest to a petty larceny charge but has already served the six-month sentence that was imposed.
A sodomy charge was dismissed.
The aggravated sexual battery charge involved inappropriately touching a 9-year-old girl whose family was acquainted with Dodson, Commonwealth's Attorney Gino Williams said.
The incident occurred in March 1989.
In June, Dodson was sentenced to serve two years in prison after pleading guilty in Radford Circuit Court to charges of attempted escape and of injuring a Floyd County deputy sheriff.
Dodson, of Pembroke, was shot by the deputy during the escape attempt in January while Dodson was being treated at Radford Community Hospital.
He had been arrested two days earlier after being a fugitive from the Floyd County charges for four years.
Dodson had been taken to the hospital after he complained of chest pains while at the Floyd County Jail.
Dodson was shot in the left side of his chest after a struggle at the door of a secured hospital room. State police and Radford investigators concluded that Deputy Steve Tolbert acted properly.
In Radford, Dodson was sentenced to five years in prison on the attempted escape charge with three years suspended; he was given a four-year suspended sentence on the charge of inflicting bodily injury on a correctional officer.
He will get credit for time he has served awaiting trial; after serving two years, he will be put on probation for four years.
by CNB