Arrest for abduction, rape in Albemarle
Just hours before Charlottesville police stopped a sexual assault in progress in the early morning hours of Thursday, February 21, Albemarle County Police made an arrest of their own. At 11:29pm on Wednesday night, February 20, Albemarle County officers responded to the 100 block of the Turtle Creek Apartments where they met a female juvenile who said she’d been abducted and sexually assaulted.
Police arrested 34-year-old James Gardner Dennis of the 100 block of Woodbrook Woodlake Drive in Four Seasons in connection. Although the incident is still under investigation, Dennis has been charged with four offenses: rape, forcible sodomy, abduction, and enticement of a minor through the use of communications systems.
According to Albemarle County Police Lt. Greg Jenkins, the case is still being actively investigated.
Sick,
Is there anything negative you can find in this article.
Armchair, do you really have to ask?
Hilarious! You guys don’t like what I say, but you keep asking me to comment. Gluttons for punishment! :)
This particular case… I do not know who is investigating it. If you were to say a certain person is investigating it, I would break out in hysterical laughter for 45 minutes.
Otherwise, if the guy did the crime(s), fry him! How’s that?
It’s not him
what’s that supposed to mean sheep dog…if it’s a lieral comment you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Assuming you mean the death penalty comment on the other article. John, I guess it is a bit of a liberal comment although that was not my direction. The city is mostly democrat and they usually don’t believe in the death penalty. The current city commonwealth atty doesn’t believe in the death penalty so I doubt it will be asked for. The county has become more democratic than in the past. The new commonwealth atty in the county does not personally believe in the death penalty, but I do not know her professional stance on the subject. I think as our society as a whole becomes more liberal (and that means all of us) we will see less death penalty sentences. I believe in the death penalty, but I respect other views on it. It is a life and death decision. It was a city jury that gave a man about 2 1/2 years for stabbing a volunteer fireman 18 times until he was dead. That young assailant is now free. Unfortunately the Sisk family lost their son and a good man.
sorry about the typo…I meant Literal…And I re-read all the comments and answered my own question.
Interesting points aboove though.
The most interesting point above is the fact if the young assailant had been an indigent unemployed black youth, he would have gotten a minimum of 20 years in prison. And we all know this is the truth. Local justice is not and has not ever been colorblind in this community.
I assume you mean the court system and not the cops. I think it is color blind, not socially blind. I’ve always said it’s the best defense money can buy. See sick, I’ve got a touch of liberal in me. I watched a young lady the other day call out names in the court room. She was a public defender, the names were her clients, and she was talking to them for them first time on the date of trial. In her defense, these people lie to them about everything and they are told to call and don’t. In past years I’ve seen the peas and deals and who gets what. don’t blame the cops it’s out of our hands at that point. I have a feeling things are changing for the best in the county though.
“She was a public defender, the names were her clients, and she was talking to them for them first time on the date of trial.” No wonder Mr. Hingesley thinks it’s Mr. Garrett’s responsibility to help him watch over his staff and their clients. Isn’t Hingesley off frequently working on the Obama campaign?
sheep dog, trust me on this too please…. don’t get me started on racism in law enforcement agencies. This is a debate you stand no chance of winning. Especially when I whip out an audio tape of a local prominent elected law enforcement official talking about one of his minority employees. I wish I had made it public during an election a while back, it would have totally destroyed the candidates chances at election. I still kick myself in the butt for not making it available to the right people. After several attempts on my life, it and many other items of local interest were taken out of town and preserved in a safe place. (This stuff is real, I am not making it up as I go along!)
By the way sheep dog, since we have gotten so far off topic, what do you think Chip Harding would say about this? DNA sloppiness sending innocent people to jail…..
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February 25, 2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS — The former manager of DNA analysis at the troubled Houston crime lab described “clearly out of control” sloppiness with evidence to investigators four months before police suspended testing in January, according to an internal report.
Contaminated samples and questionable procedures were among problems Vanessa Nelson relayed in September to investigators probing allegations of policy violations by the DNA division leader, which led to her resignation last month.
Nelson’s comments were part of a 73-page investigative police report obtained by the Houston Chronicle for a story in its Friday editions. The internal probe was the latest problem for the crime lab, where issues over accuracy and shoddy work has cast doubt on thousands of cases.
“Analyst morale is at an all-time low, and I question whether or not the section should suspend testing until the entire issue is resolved,” Nelson told investigators Sept. 8.
The crime lab’s DNA division is closed while Houston police seek a replacement for Nelson, who resigned Jan. 24 after investigators concluded that she and two midlevel supervisors helped analysts cheat on a routine skills test.
Crime lab director Irma Rios said problems described by Nelson and other DNA analysts in the report have been addressed. She said the lab has instituted additional training, new procedures and a thorough cleaning to prevent contamination.
The report includes analysts telling investigators of internal troubles like attempts to misrepresent the chain of custody on evidence samples and orders to do work they were not trained to perform.
“We need to look at the time when these statements were made,” she said. “The (internal) investigation had begun and that had added to tension in the lab. We take allegations very seriously and respond appropriately.”
The Houston crime lab’s work has been under scrutiny since 2002, when the DNA section was first shut down. Inaccuracies were later found in four other lab divisions that test firearms, body fluids and controlled substances.
Three inmates have been released from prison because of mistakes by the lab: two men wrongfully convicted of rape and another man convicted of kidnapping and rape whom prosecutors decided not to retry.
First of all, have never seen anyone arrested or treated different due to race, sex, religion, or orientation in my department. I’m sure your laugh right now, but I haven’t seen it. The Houston lab is another story, if analysts are being that sloppy or purposely reckless they should be charged and all tests should be sent to an independant lab for retest. I would rather see 10 bad guys free than one innocent man locked up.
Now, I think I know who you are now that your taping people, but this is an anonymous forum, so let’s forget it. Threats on your life are a little far fetched. I don’t think you hold the answers to the Kennedy assasination.
I can believe you have never seen it for 3 reasons.
#1) People are much more politically correct now and watch what they say very carefully. Because they have come to learn they can trust NOBODY. Not even the people in their inner circle.
#2) You must be tossed out on the front lines doing the work. Those sitting around the office with their feet propped up on the desk while drinking coffee are privy to the conversations I speak of. Or they gain access to these conversations. :)
#3) You’re still a young pup and haven’t seen or heard it all yet. It comes with age and experience. I guess you did see Allen flush his career down the drain with a slip of the tongue? Experiences like that for example. By the time you retire you will have all kinds of horror tales to repeat.
I never said I taped anybody. You’re putting the horse before the cart again while forming your assumptions about who I am. Why does it matter who I am? It irked the hell out of me to see a city councilman call a poster by his full legal name in a local forum recently. I thought it was very unprofessional. As a law enforcement officer you should be encouraging people not to post personal identifying information about themselves anywhere on the Internet. It tickled me to death to watch all the Darrel Rice conversations here not long ago. There was a handful of people here using screen names while yelling at another person for not using their real legal name. Couldn’t they look in the mirror and realize how stupid they sounded?
The Houston lab is not the exception, it’s usually the rule nationwide. Incompetence is causing the entire system as we know it to melt down very slowly. I guess you recall the flawed FBI ballistics testing that probably sent many innocent people to jail for several decades? And thanks to the newfangled DNA testing, murderers and rapists being set free after 15 and 25 years behind bars. Now we have to wonder if the DNA testing setting them free was flawed by incompetent employees too. That’s a scary thought. And back in the summer of 2005 during the Washington case, Virginia had it’s own little DNA fiasco with the lab’s chief DNA scientist, Jeffrey Ban. Do you recall that? If not, see….
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/07/national/07dna.html