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Glenn Allen Dodson pleaded guilty to driving on a suspended license and failure to stop for an officer, but wanted the facts presented in General District Court on Tuesday before sentencing.
The charges stemmed from an incident on May 4 when Rappahannock Deputy Gary Settle and another deputy were conducting a road check on Route 729. Deputy Settle testified that a vehicle kept going past the first deputy who was standing in the road with his hand up. As the car passed Deputy Settle on the right shoulder of the road, he said that he saw the driver and recognized Dodson.
Deputy Settle then got in his car and pursued the vehicle, but lost sight of Dodson’s vehicle on 72ftrii* checked on Dbdson’Svdriving record and found that his operator’s license had been suspended. Dodson was cooperative after an initial statement that he had not been driving that day when Deputy Settle did find him a few days later.
Dodson said that he did not stop at the road check because he knew that he did not have a license. He said that he has not been able to get his license back because of financial requirements. Dodson’s attorney, Frank Reynolds, asked Judge John Alexander to impose a fine and jail sentence that would allow Dodson to continue working so that he can eventually pay to have his license reinstated. “He broke the law, but there was no danger posed to anyone during the incident since there was no high speed chase,” Reynolds said.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke said that the charge of driving on a suspended license was aggravated by the fact that Dodson went through the road check. “The only reason there was no high speed chase was because Deputy Settle couldn’t get around behind him (Dodson) soon enough,” Luke said. Luke said that there would be no objection to Dodson serving any jail sentence on weekends.
For the charge of failure to stop for an offi.er, Judge Alexander fined Dodson $100 in addition to $20 costs, sentenced him to 10 days in jail with six of those days suspended. Dodson will be allowed to serve the four remaining days on two consecutive weekends.
Judge Alexander reduced the charge of driving on a suspended license to driving with no operator’s license since Dodson has not gotten his license back due to financial circumstances. Dodson was fined aa additional $100 and received a suspended 30 day jail sentence for the reduced
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