Grand jurors handed down more than 20 indictments on March 4, according to records in the Patrick County Court Clerk’s Office.
An indictment is not an indication of guilt, but a grand jury’s determination that enough evidence exists to warrant a trial.
Those named in the indictments are:
*Kenneth Russell Griffith, 33, of Ararat, two counts strangulation and one count abduction, August 11.
*James Daniel Biggs, 33, of Stuart, breaking and entering, September 3.
*Joyce Lee Charles, 40, of Meadows of Dan, one count each credit card forgery and credit card larceny, on or between March 1 through June 30.
*Kelly Simpson Manning, 57, of Stuart, one count each forge public record and perjury, on or between June 5-6.
*Summer Nicole Collins, 36, of Stuart, grand larceny of a motor vehicle, April 1.
*Randall Keith Fagg, 73, of Patrick Springs, possession of a Schedule I or II drug, October 3.
*Darryle Theodore Hand, Jr., 49, of Martinsville, one count each robbery- serious bodily injury and aggravated malicious wounding, September 15.
*Roscoe B. Hensley, 52, of Mount Airy, N.C., one count each grand larceny and breaking and entering, April 1, 2022.
*Benjamin William Plaster, Jr., 40, of Fieldale, grand larceny, September 14.
*Daniel Edward Tucker, 62, of Stuart, possession of a Schedule I or II drug, October 17.
*Timothy Underwood, 25, of Stuart, one count each strangulation and abduction, September 19.
*Johnny Ray Gwyn, 55, of Mount Airy, N.C., one count each breaking and entering and grand larceny, on or about April 1-18, 2022.
*Scottie Andrew Cassell, II, 30, of Stuart, one count each distribute child porn and possess child pornography, July 24.
*Ronnie Daniel Goad, 49, of Meadows of Dan, attempted malicious wounding, October 30.
*Phillip Kentrell Womack, 29, of Greensboro, N.C., elude, November 7.
*Richard Clay Fitzgerald, 35, of Patrick Springs, two counts each aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties and one count solicit child to perform child pornography, on or between October 5, 2017, through October 1, 2022.
