VIRGINIA BRIEFING

I-64 SHOOTINGS

Teen's Sentence Changed To 180-Day Program

A teenage boy who pleaded guilty for his role in a series of shootings in March along Interstate 64 near Charlottesville will spend 180 days in a program at a juvenile center.

A judge decided Tuesday to suspend the original sentence for the 16-year-old and send him to the post-disposition program at the Blue Ridge juvenile detention center. He was also sentenced to supervised release and ordered to pay about $12,500 in restitution.

The teen had been originally sentenced to an indeterminate amount of time at a state juvenile facility, meaning he could have been held until he was 21. He appealed that sentence.

Slade Woodson, 19, is also charged in connection with the shootings, in which two people were slightly injured. Woodson's trial is scheduled for Sept. 16.

-- Associated Press

GLOUCESTER COUNTY

Sheriff, 4 Supervisors Face Indictments

Four of the seven members of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors have been indicted on suspicion of conducting public business in secret. The county sheriff was also indicted in connection with the case.

Teresa Altemus, Michelle Ressler, Robert "Bobby" Crewe and Gregory Woodard were indicted Tuesday on a total of 12 misdemeanors.

A special grand jury report says the four conspired to seize control of the board and hired an interim county administrator without permission.

The report also says they enlisted Sheriff Steve Gentry to disable network accounts and seize the computers of the county administrator and attorney after they had been terminated at a board meeting. Gentry was indicted on one misdemeanor count of unlawful warrantless search.

Woodard and Gentry said they did nothing wrong. Altemus, Ressler and Crewe could not be reached.

-- Associated Press