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CRIME & SAFETY
Saxis man convicted of setting girlfriend on fire
They had been drinking for hours when a Wachapreague woman refused to drive her former boyfriend across Accomack County one late afternoon in November of 2022. So, the then 72-year-old man pushed her to the floor of the Saxis home, poured lighter fluid on her leg, and set her on fire.
Custis sentenced in 2023 crimes, including murder
A Greenbush man’s presentence report stated “he regretted all that happened” and “was (only) trying to scare them a bit” when his gunfire blasted a Jacob Street apartment in Onancock in 2019 killing a recent high school graduate. Twenty-six-year-old Eric Bruno Custis Jr., of Wharton...
Bloxom man pleads guilty to malicious wounding
A local man pleaded guilty to strangling and maliciously wounding an out-of-town woman Thursday in Accomack Circuit Court during a bizarre drug-induced sexual encounter that turned wrong last November. Sentencing was deferred for two years for 26-year-old David Michael Turner, of Big Road in Bloxom. He will be on supervised...
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