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Calling drugs a “pernicious influence,” Judge W. Shore Robertson sentenced Ronald Lee Nicholson of Washington to 12 months in the Rappahannock County jail on a charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Nicholson was arrested last December at his home on the Fodderstack Road. State Police troopers and special agents, acting on information received from a man arrested on a drug charge in Richmond, obtained a warrant to search his residence and arrested him when the search turned up approximately six ounces of cocaine and a small amount of marijuana.
According to the affidavit filed in support of the warrant, George Massie was arrested by special agents of the Richmond Police Department with approximately four ounces of cocaine in his possession. Massie and two other individuals detained with him told the investigators that he had obtained the cocaine from Nicholson.
On the basis of Massie’s testimony, Magistrate Francis Eldred authorized the search warrant, which resulted in the seizure of the cocaine. A chemical analysis determined that the cocaine was approximately 92 percent pure according to the laboratory report.
Nicholson’s plea agreement stipulates that a possible 40-year prison term be suspended, with 12 months to be served in the Rappahannock County jail. He will be on supervised probation for four years following his release, with drug screening and counseling to be determined by his probation officer.
A charge of possession of marijuana was dropped.
Judge Robertson declined to impose a fine, which Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke requested, explaining that he preferred to use “jail and probation as standard means to rehabilitate people . . . (and) meet their debt to society.”
In addition, the agreement requires Nicholson to cooperate with the Commonwealth’s Attorney “in certain other criminal investigations” including giving testimony before grand juries “that are investigating relevant matters.”
Recently, Mr. Luke confirmed that a multi-jurisdictional grand jury empanelled in Henrico County is in
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