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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappakumock N«w« Staff Writer
In General District Court Tuesday Anthony F. Moody was found guilty of two counts of petit larceny and several counts of destruction of private property in connection with a series of incidents that occurred on May 9.
Judge James Robeson, substituting for Judge Charles Foley, also found sufficient evidence in a preliminary hearing of felonious assault to have that charge presented to a grand jury.
Public defender Brandon Gladstone, representing Mr. Moody, taped most of the case and implied he felt his clients constitutional rights had been violated by the Major Rick ' MacWelch of the county Sheriff’s Office in interrogating Mr. Gladstone’s client while he was in the custody of the Warren County jail.
Judge Robeson sentenced Mr. Moody to 180 days in jail on each of the misdemeanor charges.
As the first witness for the prosecution, Major MacWelch testified that he first learned of a complaint by Natasha White, who works for the Faith Mountain Company, that someone had vandalized her car while it was in the company’s parking lot and taken a back pack from it.
Then he heard that a vehical belonging to RCHS junior Jon Arnold had been vandalized and items taken from it. Next he heard that two pickup trucks and a car had been vandalized at Massie^ Comer.
Major MacWelch submitted numerous photographs of the vehicles with their windows smashed in.
He learned that the suspect was driving an Isuzu Trooper. That was .located in Page County. A chase followed involving Page County and Warren County deputies that ended in a wreck and Mr. Moody ended up in Warren County jail.
Major MacWelch said he interviewed Mr. Moody who first said, “You don’t have anything on me,” and then began confessing after Major MacWelch said there were witnesses.
Major MacWelch said Mr. Moody was agitated during the questioning and they were separated by bars. He said he read Mr. Moody his Miranda rights “immediately after he made incriminating statements.”
He said Mr. Moody nodded that he understood and waived his rights after
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