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  • Nurses' assistant pleads guilty to selling wedding bands stolen from ailing veterans

    07/10/2012 1:47:20 PM PDT · by Darnright · 26 replies
    roanoke.com ^ | 7-10-12 | Neil Harvey
    One of two nurses' assistants charged in the thefts of wedding bands from ailing, elderly veterans pleaded guilty today in Roanoke Circuit Court to eight felonies. Ashley Michelle Sweeney, 23, of Ferrum admitted that in January she accepted rings taken from four patients at the Virginia Veterans Care Center on Shenandoah Avenue in northwest Roanoke. She also admitted selling them at two pawn shops along Williamson Road. Judge Clifford Weckstein found Sweeney guilty of four counts each of receiving and selling stolen property, offenses that carry a combined maximum penalty of 120 years in prison. She will be sentenced at...
  • Theft victim might never leave nursing home - 90 YO's ring was cut off her hand by attackers

    07/30/2002 2:06:27 AM PDT · by MeekOneGOP · 14 replies · 456+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 30, 2002 | By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News
    Theft victim might never leave nursing home Her cherished wedding ring was cut off her hand by attackers 07/30/2002 By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News Mary Tucker doesn't know why she lives in a nursing home. A week and a half ago, she lived alone in her house and had a friend who checked on her daily. She sometimes remembers two men breaking down her door and cutting off her finger to steal the wedding band she wore for nearly 70 years. All Mrs. Tucker, 90, knows is that she wants to go home. Her best friend...