A 28-year-old Scottsburg man, Dustin Dale Farrar, pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to a pair of felony charges for forgery, another charge for obtaining money under false pretenses and a misdemeanor charge for petty larceny.
It has been almost three years since Halifax resident Steven Edward Salley asked the Halifax County Service Authority for the last time to do right by him and correct a continuous overflow of sewage he said was destroying some five acres of his 100-plus acre farm.
Alton Glenn Beadles, who pleaded guilty in December to the murder of Wendy Cash in January 2017, was sentenced Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to serve 21 years in prison for the crime.
Alton Glenn Beadles, who pleaded guilty in December to the murder of Wendy Cash in January 2017, is scheduled to be sentenced at 2 p.m. on Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court.
The civil suit filed by South Boston resident Christen Waddle against employees of the Halifax County animal control department has been settled as a result of the mediation proceedings held Thursday, according to federal court records.
A 31-year-old South Boston man, Darren Lee Satterfield was indicted Thursday by a Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury on one felony count of malicious wounding and one felony count of grand larceny.
A 59-year-old Vernon Hill man, Larry William Berkley was convicted Thursday of possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance (cocaine),
The civil suit filed by South Boston resident Christen Waddle against employees of the Halifax County animal control department has been ordered to mediation.
Attorneys have been appointed, but a preliminary hearing that had been set Tuesday for Kory Lenorad Lennon and Tonja Lashay Sydnor, who are each charged with second degree murder in the May 27 death of 5-year-old Christian Sydnor, has been continued to Tuesday, Aug. 6.
Judge Kimberley S. White imposed a jury’s verdict Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court that sentenced Journy Lee Snead to 20 years in prison for the first-degree murder of his grandfather, 75-year-old Floyd Leslie Crider last July 19.
A 39-year-old Vernon Hill man, Jamie Allen Seamster, will serve an effective five years in prison after being sentenced Friday for charges connected with receiving or selling stolen property.
A 23-year-old Alton resident, Mitchell Glenn Elliott, was sentenced to an effective three months in jail and was ordered to pay more than $32,000 restitution after pleading guilty to a charge for misdemeanor assault and battery in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
A 23-year-old Alton resident, Mitchell Glenn Elliott, was sentenced to an effective three months in jail and was ordered to pay more than $32,000 restitution after pleading guilty to a charge for misdemeanor assault and battery in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
A 58-year-old Clover man, Michael Lee Cousins, will serve an effective 10 years in prison for breaking and entering after a sentencing hearing in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
Attorneys have been appointed and a preliminary hearing date set for Kory Lenorad Lennon and Tonja Lashay Sydnor who are each charged with second degree murder in the death of 5-year-old Christian Sydnor that occurred May 27.
A 37-year-old South Boston man, Lamont Bee Miller, was sentenced Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to six years in prison for breaking and entering.
Sentencing for a Halifax man guilty of killing his grandfather was continued Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court until 1 p.m. on June 28.
A 43-year-old Halifax woman, Keisha Nichole Richardson, was sentenced Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to 10 years in prison for each of three convictions for possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance.
A 23-year-old Virgilina man, Holden Luke Dunman, pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to a pair of drug distribution charges.
A 36-year-old Roxboro, North Carolina, man was convicted Friday of charges for possession of methamphetamine and possession of amphetamine following a bench trial in Halifax County Circuit Court.
A 47-year-old South Boston man, Milton Eugene Clark, pleaded guilty Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to felonies for possession of cocaine and possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance and also pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for identity theft and possession of marijuana.
John Wade Glasscock Jr., a 27-year-old Scottsburg resident, pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to four charges related to the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine.
A 60-year-old Virgilina man, Ricky Dean Elliott, was indicted Thursday by a Halifax County Circuit Court Grand Jury for one count of malicious wounding.
A 28-year-old South Boston man, Andrew L. Loftis, will serve an effective six years in prison for a string of grand larcenies he committed in a period from December 2017 to April 2018.
A jury trial for 21-year-old South Boston resident Tequan Jamal Watson, indicted last July for first-degree murder in connection with a double shooting incident in Feb. 2018 that left one man dead and another wounded, was continued earlier this month in Halifax County Circuit Court.
A man described by law enforcement as being a problem in his community for some time, will serve an effective 20 years in prison for drugs and firearms charges.
A Halifax County grand jury indicted a 26-year-old South Boston man, Kevin Omar Edmunds, on Thursday for multiple charges resulting from a domestic disturbance that allegedly occurred Feb. 19 in the Poplar Creek Street area in South Boston.
A 59-year-old South Boston man, Michael William White will serve an effective three years in prison for breaking and entering following a sentencing hearing in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
Alton Glenn Beadles, who pleaded guilty in December to the murder of Wendy Cash in January 2017, had his sentencing date continued on Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.
Antone Lemont Hamlett will have more than two decades to think about his bad decisions made in November 2017, when he attacked his wife with a knife and abducted her.
A 12-person jury equally comprised of men and women deliberated for a little less than three hours on Friday before finding Journy Lee Snead guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his grandfather, Floyd Leslie Crider.
The murder trial of Journy Lee Snead took another turn Wednesday, when presiding Judge Kimberley S. White ruled earlier statements made by Snead’s 4-year-old daughter were admissible, after additional prosecution evidence was entered on Wednesday.
Prosecutors hoping to use prior statements made by the 4-year-old daughter of Journy Lee Snead during Snead’s first-degree murder trial hit a roadblock Monday, when presiding Judge Kimberley S. White reversed her earlier ruling and declared inadmissible statements made by the child in a fore…
A 39-year-old Vernon Hill man, Jamie Allen Seamster, was convicted of charges connected with receiving or selling stolen property following a bench trial Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.
A five-day jury trial is set to start Monday in Halifax County Circuit Court for 32-year-old Journy Lee Snead, indicted in December for felony first-degree murder in connection with the death of his grandfather, 75-year-old Floyd Leslie Crider.
A 57-year-old South Boston man, William Michael White, will serve an effective three years in prison for felony shoplifting after being sentenced in Halifax County Circuit Court on Friday.
Tyrell Trevon Harris, a 24-year-old Vernon Hill man, will serve an effective one year in jail on charges relating to unlawful wounding and felony assault of a law enforcement person.
A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 48-year-old Halifax man, Jeffrey Rymel Neal, on a felony charge for malicious wounding in addition to five other felony counts on Thursday.
A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 48-year-old Halifax man, Jeffrey Rymel Neal, on a felony charge for malicious wounding in addition to five other felony counts on Thursday.
Shelley E. Thornton, a 36-year-old Nathalie woman who pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity in January in connection with the June 28 shooting death of her father, James Thornton, was remanded to state custody after a hearing in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
A 29-year-old Halifax resident will serve a total of seven years in prison for five felonies, including three related to distribution of a controlled substance, after pleading guilty to the charges Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court.
A Danville man was convicted Thursday following a three-day jury trial of committing seven robberies and other charges related to numerous armed robberies of businesses in Danville, Bedford and Rocky Mount and in Prospect Hill, North Carolina.
A 35-year-old Halifax man, Christopher Deon Easley, was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison, with all but 10 years suspended, for possession of oxycodone, and he was sentenced to a 10-year suspended term for distribution of cocaine.
“Give me all your money, or I’ll shoot you in the face,” were the words written by Jeremy Lamar Anderson on a note and handed to a teller at American National Bank on Aug. 27, according to Halifax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Q. Martin.
John Frederick “Jack” Brown will serve the rest of his life in prison in the Jan. 22, 2018 murder of his wife, Jeanette, with the sentence handed down Friday in Mecklenburg County Circuit Court.
A 38-year-old Nathalie man, Draper Lamont Davis, pleaded guilty Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to a felony charge for possession of a firearm as a non-violent felon.
John Frederick “Jack” Brown, who entered an Alford plea in December to first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of his wife, will learn his fate Friday at noon in Mecklenburg County Circuit Court when he is sentenced.
The second of two men convicted of charges related to breaking and entering Thrifty Tire in South Boston received an active prison term of one year and six months for the felony in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.
Halifax County General District Court Judge William “Bill” Watson Jr. was one of four judgeship appointments made Thursday in Richmond for the 10th Judicial Circuit when the General Assembly appointed him to the circuit court bench.
A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 60-year-old Nathalie man on Thursday for malicious wounding using a crowbar.
A pair of South Boston residents, 34-year-old Amber-Dawn Yvonne Day and 37-year-old David Wayne Day Jr., pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to charges associated with the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine.
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