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FREEDOM SHORT FOR EX-CONVICTS
Freedom is brief for two released convicts
Date published: 5/29/2008
BY KEITH EPPS
Two men who got out of prison Tuesday were free less than four hours before they were back in jail again, police said.
Fredericksburg police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said the men were arrested and charged with stealing clothes from the Dollar General at 1255 Jefferson Davis Highway.
The two men had been brought to Fredericksburg to catch a bus to the Norfolk area. They never made it onto the bus.
They were apparently seeking some new attire to replace the clothes they'd been given upon being released from Coffeewood Correctional Center, Bledsoe said.
Stephen Brett Favre, 43, and Joshua Wayne Anderson, 45, were both charged with larceny and placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond. Favre was also charged with obstruction of justice.
According to records from the state Department of Corrections, Anderson and Favre had both served more than two years for crimes committed in the Tidewater area.
They were released Tuesday and given clothes, a bus ticket, $25 in cash and a ride to Fredericksburg, Bledsoe said.
About 2 p.m., Bledsoe said, an employee in Dollar General noticed a shirtless Favre putting on pants over the pants he was wearing.
He also grabbed a shirt and a belt and walked out of the store.
Police were called and got a good description of the suspect, Bledsoe said. The suspect and another man, later identified as Anderson, were soon spotted near Allman's Bar-B-Q.
Bledsoe said Favre, the only suspect at the time, ran when confronted by police but was quickly caught. Anderson complied immediately, but police found clothes on him that had also been taken from Dollar General.
State inmate records show that neither man is a stranger to time behind bars.
Prior to his latest two-year stint, Anderson was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a robbery in Virginia Beach, records show.
Favre has had multiple theft-related convictions, primarily in Newport News, dating back to the early 1990s.
His sentences have totaled nearly 14 years.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
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Date published: 5/29/2008
Most recent reader comments:
Ahhhh
(posted by
fugyou
, May 29, 2008 7:27 pm)
The local brain trust is a it again! LOL ! I'm incredulous that these guys are only in their 40's. Those faces alone should keep 'em at Coffeewood for another 40 years. Face it, these two are hopeless and no social program is going to make a difference to these buggers.
CncrndCitzen
(posted by
1eviltwin
, May 29, 2008 4:54 pm)
question is are u willing to pay higher taxes for these programs? id rather pay higher taxes for things that schools need than for convicts.thats my choice if i had to chose one..these people are in the situations they are in not cause the system its cause they got into the system and now they know no better..they will milk society for there 3 hots and and a bed with 24 hour security for the rest of there lives. compared to being poor and on the streets this is the better option for some
PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY...
(posted by
MF
, May 29, 2008 4:27 pm)
They are not. They will keep on again,and again, and again until someone is killed. The best thing for them- to be executed---publicly.AND..get all those little bad ass 10,11,12,13 yr old hoodlums and let them have a front row seat so they can watch and smell them die. Will it influence them, who knows...Is this an extreme measure, yes it is. Will it work ??? Nothing has so far...
NOT A SERMON.....just a thought......
Re: Wonderful
(posted by
CncrndCitzen
, May 29, 2008 2:31 pm)
I agree w/you 100%. They should be required to move into a halfway house until they find jobs. DOC does the communities no good releasing ex-cons into the streets to become "cons" within 4 hours. If anyone from DOC is listening and the State is listening, Get on the ball and get a decent release program in place. We, as a society, will reap the benefits later.
Only in AMERICA!
(posted by
ivosphere
, May 29, 2008 1:13 pm)
Pathetic
–adjective 1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
2. affecting or moving the feelings.
3. pertaining to or caused by the feelings.
4. miserably or contemptibly inadequate: In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest.
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