Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 5, 1993 TAG: 9308050045
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
MANASSAS - A man whose penis was cut off by his wife in retaliation for alleged sexual abuse surrendered Wednesday to face a charge of marital sexual assault.
John Wayne Bobbitt will be arraigned today.
A malicious wounding charge against his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, was sent to a grand jury after a police officer testified that she admitted severing her 26-year-old husband's penis June 23 while he slept.
The organ was surgically reattached in an apparently successful nine-hour operation. - Associated Press
Children tested for HIV after handling needles
WAYNESBORO - City health officials tested 18 children for hepatitis C and the virus that causes AIDS after the 18 played with syringes and needles used by a patient who has both illnesses, authorities said.
The results of the tests were not known, but police and health officials said Tuesday that chances of the children, ages 3 to 11, contracting either of the viruses were minimal.
A police officer noticed the children using the syringes to squirt each other with water July 27.
An investigation revealed the needles and syringes had been used by an adult who, according to family members, has both HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - and hepatitis C, Police Chief P.A. Broadfoot said.
- Associated Press
Pretend buyer guilty in car seller's slaying
YORKTOWN - A York County jury on Tuesday convicted Juannito H. Edwards of abducting and then slaying a man who was trying to sell his Mercedes Benz.
James W. "Jimmy" Johnson and his wife had arranged to sell their 1989 Mercedes 300SE to Edwards, who answered their ad under the name J.C. Jiles, prosecutors said.
Joyce Johnson said her husband left after dinner on Jan. 30, 1990, to meet Edwards, 26, in Newport News to finish the deal but never returned.
Investigators discovered Johnson's body a week later, shot in the chest and dumped in a wooded area in York County. The Mercedes was found in Richmond, several blocks from where Edwards' grandmother lived.
- Associated Press
Suspect in teen's death `tired of being followed'
SPRINGFIELD - One of four suspects charged with murder in a teen-ager's shooting death said the group was tired of the youth and his friends "following them around," a police investigator said Tuesday.
William W. Crocker IV, 17, of Fairfax was killed and three others were injured after the shooting spree Saturday morning.
One of the suspects told detectives he and six others led the victims to a quiet neighborhood, forced them to lie down on the road and then began kicking and beating them, investigator Ed Guckenberger said.
"They were tired of these guys following them around," Guckenberger said.
Charged with murder are Frank D. Kelly of Fairfax and Rick E. Herring of Burke, both 18; Elmo Charles Bennefield, 20, of Manassas; and a 17-year-old from Burke.
- Associated Press
$80 million Va. Beach restoration proposed
VIRGINIA BEACH - An $80 million plan to widen the city's beach and build a new boardwalk would save Virginia Beach $12 million a year in storm repairs and in flood insurance rates, supporters said.
Proposals by the Army Corps of Engineers range from boosting the height of sand dunes at the beach's north end to building a new boardwalk at the southern end. The new boardwalk would be built on top of the existing one, and at 29 feet would be about one-third wider.
The upgrades would run from Rudee Inlet to 89th Street, where businesses and homes are estimated to be worth $290 million. It would make the area strong enough to withstand a 100-year storm - rain and gusts so powerful that they come along once in a century.
- Associated Press
Beetle crisis feared in lumber industry
RICHMOND - Premature cutting of trees affected by the Southern pine beetle may cause a long-term crisis for Virginia's lumber industry, sawmill owners and loggers say.
"We're cutting timber today that we should be cutting in the year 2000," said Norman Long, president of Norman L. Long Logging in Doswell.
A beetle outbreak is being blamed for the death of an estimated 5 million pines from January to June. More than 12,000 cases of beetle infestation have been documented, said Tim Tigner, chief of entomology for the Virginia Department of Forestry.
The only way to stop the beetle's spread is to cut and remove the infested trees and a buffer of surrounding trees that may have been infested.
- Associated Press
Attorney pleads guilty to theft, tax evasion
ALEXANDRIA - An Arlington attorney pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he embezzled almost $3 million from client accounts between 1986 and 1992.
James G. Arthur pleaded guilty to the three-count criminal indictment accusing him of theft of pension funds, money laundering and income tax evasion.
Arthur faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and fines of $750,000.
Among Arthur's alleged victims was the Athena Associates Pension Plan, which lost more than $1 million between 1989 and 1992, officials said.
- Associated Press
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