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ONE- Inside Virginia B4 THURSDAY MAY 15 1997 RICHMOND T1MES-DISPATCH BRIEFLY From statk staff and Associated press reports Inmate captured in Greensville He escaped through 1-85 drainage pipe BY BOB PIAZZA Times-Dispatch Staff Writer PURDY A state prisoner who escaped Tuesday morning from a work detail in northern Brunswick County was captured yesterday in an adjoining county Authorities said inmate John Russell 28 stopped on a road in Purdy in northern Greensville County yesterday morning to chat with someone who later oiled police State Department of Corrections spokesman David Botkins said the resident recognized face from news accounts erf the escape Botkins said Russell had slept outdoors in underbrush Tuesday night Botkins said Russell may have had a domestic problem apparently tied to a recent letter that prompted him to escape Russell a prisoner at Baskerville Correctional Unit No 4 in Mecklenburg County was serving 17 yean for breaking and entering and grand larceny officials said lie was sentenced in Prince George County and Chesapeake Botkins said he had been denied parole since 1993 Russell escaped into a big drainage pipe beside Interstate 85 about 10:30 am Tuesday authorities said He was taken into custody without inci dent by Greensville County deputies about 9:20 am yesterday Russell was working on a road crew of inmates who were cutting grass and brush along the interstate when he entered the drainage pipe Botkins said that after seeing Russell enter the drainage pipe "a guard ran across the highway to catch Russell when he left the pipe As it turned out the pipe empty out directly across the road but did so 100 yards away' how he made his Botkins said He declined to name the guard Botkins said a continuing investigation would also focus on the security at the site look at whether or not there were any shortcomings there" More than 100 people were searching for Russell Tuesday including guards highway workers and state and kical police 1 Tracking dogs found candy wrappers and fabric from clothing Tuesday but Russell managed to elude his pursuers "And then night-fell came and made it twice 89 Botkins said He said capture was a example of state and local cooperation in apprehending a BOB PIAZZA Lynchburg slaying being investigated APPOMATTOX Authorities are investigating the slaying of a Lynchburg woman whose body was found in the James River late Sunday The body of Lisa Yvonne Crider 23 was found in the river near Mate Route 60S about 6 pm Sunday by two fishermen Appomattox County Sheriff Wil- Son Staples said She was bound with duct tape and had been shot in the head with a shotgun he said Staples said the case does not appear to have any connection with several recent slayings of young women in the Fredericksburg and Culpeper areas Crider had testified in drug-elated cases in Campbell County 1993 and 1994 he said I 1 Student suing school oyer cheating conviction fUFFOUt A student at Nan-semond-Suffolk Academy is suing the private school contending that an honor council wrongly convicted him of cheating on a homework assignment The 17-year-old junior from Portsmouth is not identified in court papers His lawyer Christopher A Abel said the student just wants his name cleared before he starts applying to colleges The suit contends the student suffer permanent dam- age to his reputation standing jmd future business educational and social opportunities and will be greatly and irreparably Jftince William schools Weigh appearance code Vmanassas Prince William jEpunty school officials are consid- 4)fhg an appearance code to H(bsych youthful self-expres-iorisas spiked hair and body HALT The Virginia State Folk stopped Jidte Nation deft) and BU Scott and the other members of the Last Petrol at the North Carolina line MHng the group of veterans It could not inarch up Interstate 95 Marching veterans halted No pedestrians on Interstate 95 Virginia police say Tribe gets $90000 to improve hatchery Virginia State and the of (lent want to to imjxiir to gpt their out What interested in is and the others BY LAWRENCE LATANt III Times-Dispatch Staff writer kinq william The Pamunkey Indian Tribe has been awarded a $90000 federal grant to improve its shad hatchery so fish hatched there next spring can be chemically branded for study That will put the hatchery on par with government-run hatcheries elsewhere on the Chesapeake Bay that use the antibiotic tetracycline to tag the shad fry they produce trying to set things up so everybody uses distinct tetracycline marks so you know where the Btockcd fish came said Kate Bisland who works for the Environmental Protection Chesapeake Bay Program in Annapolis Md which awarded the grant Knowledge of where the stocked shad travel and their numbers is becoming increasingly valuable on the estuary where Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are trying to restore shad populations with stocked fish Studies show that hatcheries are effective because eggs placed in hatcheries are more than twice as likely to hatch than those deposited in the wild The shad population has crashed in the Chesapeake Bay but remained comparatively healthy on the Pamun-key River Tom Gunter a state Department of Game and Inland Fisher- is ics biologist said recently that Pa-munkey shad may have held their own because of the Pamunkey longstanding hatchdry Mirations Pamunkey Chief William Miles said the tribe has been hatching shad from eggs and restocking them in the Pamunkey since 1918 The tribe released about 1 million shad fry this spring he said That matches the number that the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries expected to hatch at its own hatchery from Pamunkey shad Miles said the federal grant also probably will allow the tribe tqn increase its baby shad production next -spring There are so few in the bay that both Maryland and Virginia have banned shad fishing Commercial catches in portion of the Chesapeake and its tributaries dropped from the 2 million pounds that were taken routinely in the early 1970s to 65000 pounds in J993 The marking takes place in vats where the fry swim in tetracycline solution A bone in the fry called the otolith absorbs the antibiotic: The otolith grows in concentric ringfcand bears the tetracycline stainXorcach day the fish is left in the solution By varying the number of day the fry are exposed to the tetracycline hatcheries can devekip distinctive markings that identify the fish they produce BY PETER BACQUt AND BOB PIAZZA Times-Dispatch Staff Writers A small group of veterans marching from Florida to Washington to call attention to issues was stopped from hiking up heavily trafficked Interstate 95 by Virginia State Police at the North Carolina line yesterday The said safety requires them to walk on the interstate highway the Virginia State Police said safety requires the marchers to walk off the interstate The veterans vowed to "rally at the state line and gauge our support" this morning before deciding whether to defy the interstate pedestrian ban One option is to drive to Richmond and "march for a couple days a spokesman fin1 the group said Twenty-two veterans from three American wars several of them wearing military medals patches or commemorative bracelets are making the Last Patrol march Virginia State Police and the Commonwealth of Virginia want to do anything to impair their ability to get their message said LL Col Gerald Masscngill the state police's field operations director "What we're interested in is their safety and the safety of my concern said Michael Martin a march leader "The last thing we want to do is get someone hurt out Martin said he has made more than 30 such marches walking thousands of miles: line that's my area erf expertise not Virginia's deputy secretary of transportation Shirley Ybarra sent the Last Patrol a letter yesterday on Gov George stationery saying the state Department of Transportation had no objection to their using U5 301 and US 1 tor their march wish you a safe trip and good luck with the Ybarra said "Please remember to emphasize safety as you proceed on your Meanwhile another state agency the Virginia National Guard is helping the marchers by putting them up in its armories in Petersburg Sandston and Bowling Green as they hike through central Virginia By law pedestrians are not allowed on interstate highways very concerned about pedestrian' Masscngill said So far this year there have been 33 in Virginia The Last Patrol is marching to raise public awareness of concerns over Gulf War syndrome the POW-M1A and Agent Orange issues from the Vietnam War and homelessness Yesterday's imbroglio almost but not quite re- Ai The Police Commonwealth Virginia do anything their aMittj message their safety safety of LT COL GERALD Viroinia peated the situation in which the group found itself in 1987 on a similar march to Washington Eight state troopers were prepared to arrest 26 members of the Last Patrol on Interstate 81 as they crossed the Virginia -Tennessee line Oct 27 1987 but then Gov Gerald Baliles arranged a hasty exemption to the anti-pedestrian law The state also provided the marchers with a police escort The Last Patrol was not allowed to walk on 1-95 in North Carolina according to the chief of the North Carolina Highway Patrol did take USJ 301 through part of North said Karen Tallhamer with the Last Patrol "We have four people who have poison Bumac all over the place from walking on the side of the highway through the South Carolina also blocked the Last Patrol from walking on the interstate highway said Col James Cauldcr commander of the South Carolina Highway Patrol we had to arrest The 22 marchers were later released on their own recognizance he said were gracious enough to go on the primary roads and highways other than the intestate once they were Cauldcr said he expected that South attorney general will drop the misdemeanor charges The Last Patrol US 301 according to marcher Chris Hamrick a Desert Storm veteran who is missing part of his left leg In many places he said walking along the interstate was safer than US 301 which has more blind hills and curves and occasionally no shoulders been there done he said "These back roads are highly Only two or three marchers are on the road at any one time the veterans said They walk single-file feeing into traffic and wearing orange safety vests so their situation is no more hazardous than that of highway workers he said Two carry flags and the third tics yellow ribbons to mile markers negotiated jungles and Martin said got as much sense as a construction The Last Patrol started hiking April 10 from Melbourne Fla where a veterans reunion is held with the aim of being in Washington tor Memorial Day Veterans from the wars in Vietnam Korea and the Persian Gulf are making the march Tallhamer said and range in age from early 20s to 65 They are being sponsored by veterans organizations such as the American Legion and the Veterans erf Foreign Wars Students say such things aren't a big distraction because seen at school so often Jschool 'officials disagree 4 Under a proposal made last week by a committee of administrators and parents the school code of student behavior gmuld declare that "overall appearance must meet basic standards of and that disruptive appearances not -be A A Convicted suit against victim dismissed MASKNGU State Pouck Lab Semi-Annual ULMWAULin TRAVELING CONVERTIBLE JACKET Gearance 50 and MORE on Entire Stock I A lawsuit by a convicted rapist 'against the woman he was found guilty of attacking was dismissed at a 15-minute court hearing Tuesday General District Judge JR Zcpkin ruled that the statute of imitations had elapsed cm Bernard complaint finally over 1 can put it behind the tearful woman afterward as she hugged ''her attorney In 1994 a jury convicted Brown 36 of burglary rape and robbery He was sentenced to 55 years in prison Brown lost his appeals to the Virginia Court erf Appeals and the state Supreme Court In January he sued the woman fur $5 (XX) contending she falsely -testified against him moving 900 inmates NVa prison to Ohio vv' MASHM6T0N The District of Columbia yesterday began moving 1KX) city inmates from its Lorfon Prison in Northern Virginia to a private prison in Youngs- town Ohio Prison officials said the trans- for was needl'd to ease crowding ini the dilapidated correc- lions system The city's financial control 1 hoard approved an emergency contract for housing the inmates with Nashviilc-liased Cor- rections Corporation of America beginning Tuesday Under the $66 million contract up to 900 medium and high- medium security inmates housed at the Lorton prison com- pick in suburban Fairfax Coun-: ty Va will be moved to the Ohio facility SIMPLY Seniors Uhmilr MwfMito Zyutfsletw tumtrb wsi Vntttil VW XrwM If-fnlcUiytkm Vntcd Submerged car contained bodies of 2 men The Associated Press PORTSMOUTH A car found submerged in the Elizabeth River 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