by Ireland Hayes | Nov 30, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Judge: ‘Too much [jail] time,’ but approves anyway Despite voicing concern that a negotiated eight-year sentence was “too much” jail time, Judge Robert Smith agreed to accept a plea deal in an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force case in Rappahannock...
by Ireland Hayes | Nov 28, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
A Rappahannock County Circuit Court judge ordered a Castleton man Thursday to pay a total of $10,000 to three victims after he was found guilty of stealing a tractor, a trailer of camping equipment and two antique replica cannons, one of which the prosecution said is...
by Ireland Hayes | Sep 15, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
A Washington man entered into a plea agreement in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Monday, pleading guilty to six counts of child sex crimes connected to an inappropriate relationship he had with a county teenager in 2018. Anthony Aaron Pyle, 50, was originally...
by Ireland Hayes | Aug 15, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
After hearing nearly a dozen witnesses lay out the prosecution’s case against Chester Brown in the murder of Washington resident Doris Critzer — including new DNA evidence — a Rappahannock County District Court judge on Tuesday found enough probable cause to send the...
by Ireland Hayes | Jul 21, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
From what appeared to be a classroom in the Lunenburg Correctional Center in Victoria, Va., accused murderer Chester Brown, 64, appeared by video call in Rappahannock County District Court Tuesday for a less than three-minute hearing — one his attorney, Ryan Rakness,...
