Illegal alien gets six months in prison for killing roommate

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On Wednesday, a judge in Petersburg, Va. sentenced Norman Jose Carcamo-Arias, 25, to 10 years in prison with nine years and six months suspended. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his roommate, Josiel Venturi Garcia-Orbina, 24.

Since Arias, a Honduran national, has already been in jail for a year, local law enforcement are now just waiting for him to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

Petersburg Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Blalock told the Richmond-Times Dispatch: “They said they were going to come down and pick him up to deport him back to Honduras.”

On Jan. 8, 2009, police arrived at the apartment responded Arias and Orbina, shared, along with three others. There, they found Orbina’s body with a fatal shotgun blast to the neck.

Two of his roommates claimed that they came home and found Orbina dead, and had no idea how he was killed.

When police caught up to Arias, he told them that the homicide was the result of a bad drug deal, and that an unidentified black male shot Orbina.

Eventually, all of them recanted their stories and admitted that Arias shot Orbina, after the two had apparently been playing with a shotgun, pointing it at one another.

Blalock described Arias’ actions: “He apparently pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he then cocked the gun and pulled the trigger again. The second time the gun fired.”

When Orbina fell dead, his four roommates ran from the apartment, bringing the gun with them.

Blalock said: “When they left, they gave the gun to someone on the street. Then they took Carcamo-Arias to Richmond and let him out of the car before returning to the apartment and calling police.”

All of the roommates are in the country illegally.

 

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Va. set to execute multiple murderer in May

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On Friday, a judge in Richmond, Va. set a May 20 execution date for Darick Demorris Walker, 37, who was convicted of two separate murders, several years ago. According to trial records, on Nov. 22, 1996, Walker broke into the apartment of Sta...watch immigration news videos

Illegal alien gets six months in prison for killing roommate

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On Wednesday, a judge in Petersburg, Va. sentenced Norman Jose Carcamo-Arias, 25, to 10 years in prison with nine years and six months suspended. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his roommate, Josiel Venturi Garcia-Orbina, 24.

Since Arias, a Honduran national, has already been in jail for a year, local law enforcement are now just waiting for him to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

Petersburg Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Blalock told the Richmond-Times Dispatch: “They said they were going to come down and pick him up to deport him back to Honduras.”

On Jan. 8, 2009, police arrived at the apartment responded Arias and Orbina, shared, along with three others. There, they found Orbina’s body with a fatal shotgun blast to the neck.

Two of his roommates claimed that they came home and found Orbina dead, and had no idea how he was killed.

When police caught up to Arias, he told them that the homicide was the result of a bad drug deal, and that an unidentified black male shot Orbina.

Eventually, all of them recanted their stories and admitted that Arias shot Orbina, after the two had apparently been playing with a shotgun, pointing it at one another.

Blalock described Arias’ actions: “He apparently pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he then cocked the gun and pulled the trigger again. The second time the gun fired.”

When Orbina fell dead, his four roommates ran from the apartment, bringing the gun with them.

Blalock said: “When they left, they gave the gun to someone on the street. Then they took Carcamo-Arias to Richmond and let him out of the car before returning to the apartment and calling police.”

All of the roommates are in the country illegally.

 

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Va. set to execute multiple murderer in May

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On Friday, a judge in Richmond, Va. set a May 20 execution date for Darick Demorris Walker, 37, who was convicted of two separate murders, several years ago.

According to trial records, on Nov. 22, 1996, Walker broke into the apartment of Stanley Beale, pointed a gun at him and asked: “What you keep coming up to my door? What you looking for me for?” Beale told Walker he did not know him, Walker then shot beale to death in front of his 13-year-old daughter.

The other murder occurred on June 18, 1997, when Walker forced his way into the home of Clarence Elwood Threat, after the man’s girlfriend turned Walker down for a date. Walker shot Threat seven times.

Throughout his lengthy appeals process, Walker has made various claims including that he is mentally disabled.

Recently, a federal appeals court rejected Walker’s case, which cleared the way for his execution.

The execution will be Virginia's 107th since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the resumption of the death penalty. Only Texas has carried out more executions with 451.

In Virginia, the condemned are given the choice of death either by lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 18, convicted murderer, rapist Paul Warner Powell chose the electric chair, making him only the third to do so since the Commonwealth began using lethal injection as a means of execution in 1994.

 

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Va. set to execute multiple murderer in May

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On Friday, a judge in Richmond, Va. set a May 20 execution date for Darick Demorris Walker, 37, who was convicted of two separate murders, several years ago.

According to trial records, on Nov. 22, 1996, Walker broke into the apartment of Stanley Beale, pointed a gun at him and asked: “What you keep coming up to my door? What you looking for me for?” Beale told Walker he did not know him, Walker then shot beale to death in front of his 13-year-old daughter.

The other murder occurred on June 18, 1997, when Walker forced his way into the home of Clarence Elwood Threat, after the man’s girlfriend turned Walker down for a date. Walker shot Threat seven times.

Throughout his lengthy appeals process, Walker has made various claims including that he is mentally disabled.

Recently, a federal appeals court rejected Walker’s case, which cleared the way for his execution.

The execution will be Virginia's 107th since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the resumption of the death penalty. Only Texas has carried out more executions with 451.

In Virginia, the condemned are given the choice of death either by lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 18, convicted murderer, rapist Paul Warner Powell chose the electric chair, making him only the third to do so since the Commonwealth began using lethal injection as a means of execution in 1994.

 

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Illegal alien gets six months in prison for killing roommate

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On Wednesday, a judge in Petersburg, Va. sentenced Norman Jose Carcamo-Arias, 25, to 10 years in prison with nine years and six months suspended. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his roommate, Josiel Venturi Garcia-Orbina, 24.

Since Arias, a Honduran national, has already been in jail for a year, local law enforcement are now just waiting for him to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

Petersburg Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Blalock told the Richmond-Times Dispatch: “They said they were going to come down and pick him up to deport him back to Honduras.”

On Jan. 8, 2009, police arrived at the apartment responded Arias and Orbina, shared, along with three others. There, they found Orbina’s body with a fatal shotgun blast to the neck.

Two of his roommates claimed that they came home and found Orbina dead, and had no idea how he was killed.

When police caught up to Arias, he told them that the homicide was the result of a bad drug deal, and that an unidentified black male shot Orbina.

Eventually, all of them recanted their stories and admitted that Arias shot Orbina, after the two had apparently been playing with a shotgun, pointing it at one another.

Blalock described Arias’ actions: “He apparently pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he then cocked the gun and pulled the trigger again. The second time the gun fired.”

When Orbina fell dead, his four roommates ran from the apartment, bringing the gun with them.

Blalock said: “When they left, they gave the gun to someone on the street. Then they took Carcamo-Arias to Richmond and let him out of the car before returning to the apartment and calling police.”

All of the roommates are in the country illegally.

 

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Norfolk woman charged with murder of her husband

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On Wednesday, Norfolk police arrested Corey Boone Purvis, 33, and charged her with the murder of her husband, John Purvis, 33.

She was taken into custody in her home, the scene of the homicide. Police say the couple had been arguing prior to the shooting.

In a related story, Mozella Jones, a security guard at the National Gallery of Art, was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Kerry Jackson.

She claimed that she shot her husband in self-defense on Feb. 1, 2009.

The shooting took place following an argument, after a neighbor called Jones at work to inform her that her toddler son had been wandering the neighborhood, while her husband was supposed to be watching him.

Jones’ sentencing hearing will be held on May 21.

 

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Norfolk middle school guidance counselor charged with drug distribution, kept working

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Nearly three months after her arrest, Sheena Latoya Ingram, was still working at Lafayette-Winona Middle School in Norfolk. School administrators told WAVY-10’s Mary Kay Mallonee that they had no knowledge of her arrest, until the reporter brought it to their attention on Friday.

School spokesman Mike Spencer said: “It was really through that contact that we became aware that we had an employee at one of the middle schools who had been arrested. Once we got that information, as policy would dictate, we placed that individual on leave.”

Spencer continued: “Just having a role model of that caliber around children is not what you and I would want for our children.”

On December 22, 2009, Ingram was arrested by Norfolk police, and charged with possession of heroin and marijuana with the intent to distribute, as well as two weapons charges.

On March 3, she was indicted on all four felonies.

Apparently, the Norfolk school system has no procedures in place to discover such information on their own.

Norfolk school officials claim that employees are responsible for reporting any arrests or convictions to administrators, on their own.

Ingram has since been placed on administrative leave.

Lafayette-Winona Middle School has been rocked recently by multiple cheating scandals in which teachers were found to be giving students the answers to questions on standardized tests.

 

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Child rapist/murderer to be executed tonight

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In January, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of VA death row inmate Paul Warner Powell, 31, which allowed the state to set another date for his execution. Powell was actually sentenced to death as a result of a letter he wrote to Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert, in which he bragged about his horrific crime.

Powell was convicted of the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of her 14-year-old sister in Manassas, VA.

Powell wrote to a friend: “I get to ride the lightning.”

Not long after his conviction, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the verdict, claiming that the prosecution failed to prove that Powell had committed death penalty-eligible offenses, prior to killing Reed. Such offenses include rape and robbery.

The court however, upheld Powell’s convictions for the rape and attempted murder of Stacie Reed's younger sister.

As Powell sat in his prison cell in 2001, thinking he was free from further prosecution for the murder of Stacie Reed, he wrote a profanity-laced, taunting letter to Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert. The letter revealed previously unknown details of the crime.

Powell wrote: “Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are.”

Powell said he went to the Reed home to confront her about her current boyfriend. He forced Stacie to the floor and tried to rape her. He said that when she tried to resist, he stabbed her in the chest and finished her off by stomping on her throat.

Powell continued: “I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned. Ha Ha! Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?”

Powell also admitted that after he killed Stacie, he hid in the house waiting for her little sister, upon her return from school he viciously attacked her and thought that she would soon die.

In light of this admission from Powell, he was not only charged again with the murder of Stacie Reed, but with her attempted rape as well, which made him eligible for the death penalty. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death.

Last July, Powell was granted a stay by the Supreme Court while they deliberated whether or not to hear his appeal.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision, Ebert said: “I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case. The survivors -- Stacie's mother and [her sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay. Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years.”

In an email to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Stacie’s mom, Lorraine Reed Whoberry said simply “Praise God,” when told of the court’s decision.

Both Ebert and Whoberry plan to attend Powell’s execution tonight.

The execution will be Virginia's 106th since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the resumption of the death penalty. Only Texas has carried out more executions with 451.

 

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Virginia's only woman on death row says sentence unfair

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On Tuesday, lawyers for Teresa Lewis, the Commonwealth’s only female death row inmate, told a federal appeals court that her death sentence should be rescinded because her drug addiction and alleged personality disorders were not considered at her trial.

In 2002, Lewis pleaded guilty to masterminding the murder of her husband and stepson in Pittsylvania County.

At her sentencing, Circuit Court Judge Charles Strauss addressed Lewis, telling her that she was a cold, emotionless killer, and was motivated solely by financial reasons.

Prosecutors said that Lewis boasted to friends that she had married Julian Lewis Jr., simply for money and offered sex to the two men who carried out the murders. She was to be the sole beneficiary of $250,000 in insurance money.

The gunmen, Rodney Fuller and Matthew Shallenberger, were both sentenced to life in prison.

Lewis' daughter, Christie Lynn Bean, who knew about the plot but kept quiet, also served time in prison.

Lewis’ attorney, James Rocap now claims that his client was not capable of plotting the murders due to her severe dependency on prescription drugs, as well as a personality disorder which rendered her overly dependent on men.

If executed, she would be the first woman to die in Virginia’s death chamber since 1912.

 

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