Release Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:30 p.m.
Harvey L. Bryant, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Virginia Beach, announced today that Patrick Craig Barnes, 29 years old, who previously resided in the 1800 block of Cougar Court, Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday by Circuit Court Judge Patricia L. West on a probation violation.
In 2004, Barnes was given a sixty (60) year sentence for four (4) counts of Burglary and four (4) counts of Grand Larceny. The Court suspended the entire sentence, conditioned on his successful completion of the Youthful Offender Program. Due to multiple institutional violations, Barnes was removed from that program in 2006 and was given a two (2) year penitentiary sentence.
In 2008, Barnes appeared before the Court on a Violation of Probation because of his involvement with a gang. The Court revoked and re-suspended all but forty-five (45) days of his remaining fifty-eight (58) year sentence, conditioned on good behavior for fifty-eight (58) years and supervised probation until released. After Barnes was released, he committed a robbery while wearing a mask in Roanoke, Virginia. He was sentenced to a total of thirteen (13) years on those charges with six (6) years suspended.
Judge West revoked the fifty-eight (58) years that were remaining on his sentence and re-suspended twenty-five (25) years, leaving him an active sentence of thirty-three (33) years to serve.
Barnes was also indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on charges of Grand Larceny and Statutory Burglary, which are alleged to have been committed by him in 2009. One of the items that he was alleged to have stolen in Virginia Beach was the gun used to commit the robbery in Roanoke.
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Philip C. Hollowell prosecuted the case. Please call Julie Pickell if additional information is desired.
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