Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1995 TAG: 9511010092
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
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Police said Rodney L. Sink, 22, fatally beat Cecil E. Meeks at the victim's home late Monday or early Tuesday. Police found Meeks, a retired pipefitter who had worked for more than 30 years at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, in his room early Tuesday.
Friends and neighbors said Sink had tried unsuccessfully to rent a room at the boarding house Monday. He is being held without bond in the Portsmouth Jail.
- Associated Press
Police hunt man after narrow escape
EMPORIA - Authorities are looking for a man who kicked a police officer and escaped from the Emporia Police Department by squeezing through an 18-inch-wide window.
Police had arrested Kenneth Butler, 32, in connection with a series of thefts. Emporia Police Investigator Bryan Murphy said he was interviewing Butler when the suspect jumped onto a table, knocked computer equipment to the floor, kicked the officer and went through the window.
Police said it was the only escape from the station in recent memory.
Butler is charged with possessing stolen property from a house, three counts of possessing stolen property from cars, two counts of larceny from cars and two counts of vandalizing cars, police said.
After the escape, police also charged him with escape, destruction of public property and assault and battery of a police officer.
- Associated Press
Police academy opens in Bristol
BRISTOL - Southwest Virginia law enforcement officials have opened a new academy to train police officers from 47 localities.
The $535,000 Southwest Virginia Law Enforcement Academy has three classrooms, dormitories, offices, a lounge and a law library. It will train officers from eight counties, two cities and 37 towns.
Before the opening of the facility Tuesday, police officers from the region were trained in several classrooms at Southwest Virginia Community College in Tazewell.
- Associated Press
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