Law enforcement in the Historic Triangle handled cases regarded the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her apartment, appliances stolen from a vacant James City County home and a woman charged with inadequately caring for puppies at her house on Chickahominy Road.
James City County:
Maintenance Man Allegedly Sexually Assaults Apartment Resident
A 25-year-old Conway maintenance man is facing misdemeanor charges after a woman who lives in the apartments told police he tried to sexually assault her.
The woman told police Guillermo Osvaldo Quintanilla came to fix the door to her apartment, according to Stephanie Williams-Ortery of the James City County Police Department. Quintanilla is alleged to have sat down on a couch next to the woman before trying to hug her. At one point, he kissed the woman’s neck, Williams-Ortery said.
He then picked her up and threw her down on the couch and laid down on top of her and began pressing his body against hers, Williams-Ortery said. She was able to get away and leave the apartment.
Quintanilla has been charged with sexual assault and battery and assault and battery, both misdemeanors.
Appliances Stolen from Vacant Home
The James City County Police Department is investigating after someone stole appliances including a refrigerator, a washer and a dryer from a vacant home on the 3500 block of Danbury Place.
Williams-Ortery said police were contacted regarding the thefts April 3. A relative monitoring the property noticed the items missing March 21 but was unable to get in touch with the home’s owner until later.
There was no sign of forced entry at the house. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Line at 888-LOCK-U-UP.
Fort Bragg Soldier Picks Up Three Misdemeanor Charges in Grand Jury
Margaret Sarah Kloske, 25, now faces two assault and battery charges and a trespassing charge — all misdemeanors — after a grand jury reviewed her case last month.
Kloske, a Fort Bragg soldier accused of driving from the North Carolina base to her husband’s apartment in James City County with the goal of killing herself in front of her husband and his girlfriend in September, is already facing a felony charge of discharging a weapon in an occupied dwelling.
Her original charges included breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, two counts of attempted malicious wounding, assault and battery and reckless handling of a firearm, but the commonwealth’s attorney’s office dropped all but one of those charges during the preliminary hearing.
Kloske’s trial is scheduled for 1 p.m. May 9.
Woman Charged with Animal Cruelty
Alma Shendell Jones, a 34-year-old who lives in James City County, is facing 14 misdemeanor charges related to the care of her dogs.
James City County Animal Control responded to the 2900 block of Chickahominy Road on April 7 where they observed six puppies in a wire crate with its door open and a tarp thrown over it. The crate, wet and muddy on the inside, had a small fenced-in area in front of it, according to the police report.
The Animal Control officers informed Jones, who owns the home, the crate was inadequate shelter for the puppies. Jones told the officers the puppies would not be allowed inside the home, and became angry after the officers insisted on the inadequacies of the shelter and reminded her she had been informed they would need a different shelter several times before this incident.
The officers also noticed an adult dog — one of six additional dogs on the property — was tangled on its own chain and unable to get into its doghouse. Jones refused to untangle the dog, instead sending her children to both untangle that dog and bring the six puppies inside. During that time, the officers noticed another adult dog and two more puppies inside the home.
Jones refused to provide officers with identification, instead closing the door to her home and refusing to speak with the officers again.
After researching Jones’ licensed and unlicensed dogs and their rabies vaccinations, the animal control officers charged Jones with six counts failing to provide adequate shelter and eight counts of failing to have current rabies vaccinations. All the charges are misdemeanors.
City of Williamsburg
Woman Extradited from Florida on Williamsburg Fraud Charge
A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly cashing a $2,450 check that did not belong to her.
Marlene Rae Prevatt, a 22-year-old from Hollywood, Fla., is charged with two counts of attempted fraud and one count each of forgery, uttering and conspiracy.
Prevatt is accused of providing false identification to cash a check at a bank in the City of Williamsburg. The police report also accuses Ronald Jason Rhoda, a 41-year-old also from Florida, of driving a white Chrysler through the bank’s drive-thru lane where Prevatt presented the false ID to cash the check.
The legitimate account holder filed a police report in Hanover County a month prior to the incident identifying Prevatt and Rhoda.
Williamsburg Police obtained warrants for both Prevatt and Rhoda on March 12, with Rhoda taken into custody the same day on charges of forgery, uttering, attempted fraud and conspiracy to commit a felony. Prevatt was arrested March 19 in Florida and held until her extradition to Williamsburg on April 8.
Both are being held at Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail.
York County
Cell Phone Theft at Walmart
The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of a cell phone from a shopping cart at the Walmart on the 2600 block of George Washington Memorial Highway around 2 p.m. April 2.
A photo taken from the surveillance camera is included to the left of this report. Those who have information should call 888-LOCK-U-UP.
Stolen Credit Card Numbers Used at Walmart
YPSO is also investigating the use of stolen credit card numbers at the Walmart on the 2600 block of George Washington Memorial Highway around 5 p.m. March 15.
The stolen numbers were used to buy several gift cards.
The two suspects, described as black males who spoke with African accents, arrived to the store in a red four-door vehicle that was possibly a Chevrolet.
Photos taken from the surveillance camera is included in this report. Those who have information should call 888-LOCK-U-UP.
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