Post by WaTcHeR on May 26, 2006 14:40:08 GMT -5
05.26.2006 - Richmond police officer Goldie Rene Weaver, her husband Michael Dean McCray and her mother Judith Marshall Weaver all pleaded guilty yesterday in Henrico County Circuit Court and were convicted on illegal gambling charges for running a suburban poker parlor.
The three were arrested March 30 on allegations that for about two years they ran poker games, generally six nights a week, in Judith Weaver's house in the 2400 block of Vollmer Road. Court papers alleged the operation started in January 2004 and continued until early this year.
Yesterday Judge Catherine Hammond gave them suspended sentences, fines and orders to perform community service.
Stephen W. Miller, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Richmond office, declined to comment when asked if the Weavers and McCray are under federal scrutiny.
Law-enforcement officers have been investigating what was going on in that house for some time. Authorities are being stingy with details about the investigation, including when and why it began and how it has been conducted.
A Richmond-area multijurisdictional grand jury returned indictments, which were initially sealed, against the Weavers and McCray on March 22.
Customers of the poker parlor would ante up for approximately 20 to 25 hands per night, authorities said. Pots ranged from $25 to as much as $1,000.
On some occasions, a source told The Times-Dispatch at the time of the arrests, the house cut was several thousand dollars. On perhaps the operation's busiest night, authorities said, about 40 players' cars were parked near the Vollmer Road house.
McCray pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal gambling operation, a felony, and was sentenced to three years in prison suspended for 10 years. He was fined $1,000 and ordered to put in 200 hours of community service.
Judith Weaver pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors: being an accessory to an illegal gambling operation and allowing an illegal gambling operation in her home. She received the same sentence on each -- six months in jail suspended for three years, a $500 fine and 100 hours of community service work. That's a total of $1,000 in fines and 200 hours of community service.
Goldie Weaver pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, being an accessory to an illegal gambling operation. Like her mother on that charge, she got six months in jail suspended for three years, a $500 fine and 100 hours of community service work. She is on suspension without pay from the Richmond Police Department.
Goldie Weaver, a martial-arts expert, had most recently been assigned to work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
In 2001, she and another officer shot and killed a man, Levester Carter Jr., when he resisted after he was stopped in his car near 27th Street and Fairfield Avenue. Police said Carter grabbed a third officer's pistol and shot him in the arm. Weaver and the other officer opened fire and continued shooting when Carter refused to drop the gun. Carter was shot 13 times.
The three were arrested March 30 on allegations that for about two years they ran poker games, generally six nights a week, in Judith Weaver's house in the 2400 block of Vollmer Road. Court papers alleged the operation started in January 2004 and continued until early this year.
Yesterday Judge Catherine Hammond gave them suspended sentences, fines and orders to perform community service.
Stephen W. Miller, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Richmond office, declined to comment when asked if the Weavers and McCray are under federal scrutiny.
Law-enforcement officers have been investigating what was going on in that house for some time. Authorities are being stingy with details about the investigation, including when and why it began and how it has been conducted.
A Richmond-area multijurisdictional grand jury returned indictments, which were initially sealed, against the Weavers and McCray on March 22.
Customers of the poker parlor would ante up for approximately 20 to 25 hands per night, authorities said. Pots ranged from $25 to as much as $1,000.
On some occasions, a source told The Times-Dispatch at the time of the arrests, the house cut was several thousand dollars. On perhaps the operation's busiest night, authorities said, about 40 players' cars were parked near the Vollmer Road house.
McCray pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal gambling operation, a felony, and was sentenced to three years in prison suspended for 10 years. He was fined $1,000 and ordered to put in 200 hours of community service.
Judith Weaver pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors: being an accessory to an illegal gambling operation and allowing an illegal gambling operation in her home. She received the same sentence on each -- six months in jail suspended for three years, a $500 fine and 100 hours of community service work. That's a total of $1,000 in fines and 200 hours of community service.
Goldie Weaver pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, being an accessory to an illegal gambling operation. Like her mother on that charge, she got six months in jail suspended for three years, a $500 fine and 100 hours of community service work. She is on suspension without pay from the Richmond Police Department.
Goldie Weaver, a martial-arts expert, had most recently been assigned to work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
In 2001, she and another officer shot and killed a man, Levester Carter Jr., when he resisted after he was stopped in his car near 27th Street and Fairfield Avenue. Police said Carter grabbed a third officer's pistol and shot him in the arm. Weaver and the other officer opened fire and continued shooting when Carter refused to drop the gun. Carter was shot 13 times.