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Rare coin burglar
found guilty
By Charlie Spiering
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The law says that Michael Lee Guy is a man after coins, especially those that belong to someone else. County officers describe Guy as a serial house burglar. Indeed, the 26-year-old Guy from Remington was found guilty in the Rappahannock Circuit Court on December 21 on two counts of grand larceny. He had allegedly got into the homes of two coin collectors and made off with rare and precious metals.
Although Guy had pleaded guilty to eight other related theft charges within the county on October 5th, he had pleaded not guilty to the two charges of grand larceny. The defense attempted to win a lesser charge of larceny.
Guy turned himself in to Lt. Connie Smith, the chief investigator for the Rappahannock County SherifFs Office, on June 26. This occurred the day after his wife and alleged accomplice, Krystal Moody, turned herself in.
According to the RCSO, Moody is currently cooperating with the Commonwealth in the prosecution of Guy, but she will eventually be charged for her role in the burglaries. Lt. Smith picked up the trail of the couple while they were exchanging coins at a Culpeper bank.
The pair is also charged with crimes in Fluvanna and Madison counties. Guy is already serving a four and a half year sentence in Fauquier for stealing money out of cars.
Money in rare coins
Thursday’s case turned on the value of coin collections that had gone missing. Guy’s defense attorney
See BURGLAR, Page A3
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