Release Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 3:15 p.m.
Harvey L. Bryant, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Virginia Beach, announced that a grand jury meeting in Virginia Beach Circuit Court today returned indictments against 47 individuals charging 113 offenses.
Investigators for the Virginia Beach Department of Human Services presented indictments against 5 individuals involving welfare fraud. These offenses carry up to 20 years in the penitentiary and a fine of $2,500. Those individuals are:
| Defendant Name | Last Known Address | Charges |
| Laurel Whitney Brushingham | 3600 block Ship Chandlers Wharf
Virginia Beach, VA 23453 |
Knowingly Makes Any False Application for Welfare Assistance, Fraudulently Obtaining Welfare Assistance |
| Whitney Wheeler Orrel Gray | 2200 block Wolf Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23454 |
Knowingly Makes Any False Application for Welfare Assistance – 7 counts, Fraudulently Obtaining Welfare Assistance – 4 counts |
| Marisa Louise Riley | 2400 block Casey Court
Virginia Beach, VA 23454 |
Knowingly Makes Any False Application for Welfare Assistance – 2 counts |
| Felicia Anne Williams | 1300 block Longlac Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23464 |
Knowingly Makes Any False Application for Welfare Assistance – 4 counts |
| Hewan Wayne Wolfe | 5300 block Grand Lake Crescent
Virginia Beach, VA 23462 |
Knowingly Makes Any False Application for Welfare Assistance – 3 counts, Fraudulently Obtaining Welfare Assistance – 5 counts |
The grand jury returned indictments against 2 individuals for driving under the influence:
| Defendant Name | Last Known Address | Charges |
| Lawrence Glen Galloway | 1200 block Old Clubhouse Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23453 |
DUI – 3rd Conviction within 5 years |
| Tari Lynn Grimstead | 3500 block Royal Palm Court
Virginia Beach, VA 23452 |
DUI – 1st Conviction with child, Child Cruelty/Neglect/Abuse/ Reckless, Elude Police Officer, Refusal of Blood/Breath Test, Failure to Obey Conservator of Peace |
Bernard Russell Langley Jr, of the 1000 block of Hunting Hill Lane, was indicted for a total of 13 charges, including Abduction (3 counts), Robbery with the Use of a Gun (2 counts), Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony (5 counts), and 1 count each of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Wearing a Mask in Public, and Conspiracy to Commit a Felony. The alleged offenses occurred at a residence in the 900 block of Newtown Road on October 6, 2009.
The grand jury returned indictments against jail inmate Jamel Rhashand Knight-Funches, for a total of 5 felony offenses, including Indecent Exposure-3rd Offense (4 counts) and Tampering or Damaging a Fire Protection/Suppression System. Each of the independent alleged offenses occurred from April 3 to May 31, 2010, while Knight-Funches has been in custody for his third probation violation.
The remaining indictments charged a broad range of criminal offenses from rape, custodial indecent liberties, forcible sodomy, abduction with the intent to defile, assault on a law enforcement officer, robbery, malicious wounding, burglary, grand larceny, and arson. Indictments were returned against 10 individuals for felony drug offenses.
Please contact Macie Pridgen if additional information is desired.
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