A James City County man is facing felony charges of bigamy and possession of fraudulent records after police say he married two women in 2015.
The bigamy charge is a class 4 felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
York County deputies charged 36-year-old Corey A. Chapman on June 5, exactly two years after he married his first wife in James City County, according to York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Shelley Ward.
Police received a call from one of Chapman’s wives on March 22, 2016, reporting her husband was married to two different women, Ward said.
The woman told police Chapman married one woman in James City County on June 5, 2015, then married a second woman at the York-Poquoson Courthouse five days later on June 10, 2015, according to police.
Both women are listed in police documents as residents of Toano, Ward said.
Ward said police talked to Chapman and told him he needed to sort out the matter “civilly.” It is a criminal offense to marry two people in the state of Virginia.
“We gave him time to clear it up himself,” Ward said. “Since he didn’t do so, that’s why the arrest came so much later.”
The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office arrested Chapman June 5.
Online court records have not been updated to show Chapman’s case.
