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Authors: Lyndee Walker
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“Detective White is very busy this morning, but he said he’ll call you as soon as he has a chance,” she said. “Is that all we can do for you today?”
“I think it is, thanks.” Smiling, I flipped my notebook closed and tucked it back into my bag as I stood. I had some reports to read, and I still wanted to talk to Aaron, but maybe it wasn’t an entirely wasted side trip.
As an exclusive, the hearing story took precedence over everything else when I returned to the office. Except for coffee.
Pulling my syrup bottle from the cabinet, I shook my head as I tipped it over my cup. It was definitely lighter than it had been the day before. Was someone else using it? I pushed it to the very back of the shelf and took a couple of sips before I started for my desk with an over-full mug.
I tried to stay focused on Billings and his arrest as I typed, but my inner Lois Lane bounced, wanting to file that story and move on to the robbery.
Agents from the Richmond office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made an arrest Thursday in the murder of Daniel Amesworth, 29, the Henrico man whose body was found in the woods near Goochland earlier this week.
James Billings, 56, also of Henrico, was held overnight and released early Friday despite the objection of Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard Corry, who made a rare courtroom appearance to argue for keeping the Raymond Garfield executive in custody until after his trial.
“Mr. Billings is a flight risk,” Corry told Judge Reginald Davis. “Most of the murder defendants our courtrooms see don’t have his resources, or his connections. The Commonwealth wants to ensure that he stays in Virginia until the trial.”
Corry didn’t outline the particulars of the Commonwealth’s case, but the Telegraph has learned that the firm where Amesworth worked does political lobbying for Raymond Garfield.
I debated that sentence for a full three minutes, but left it in because I wanted to have it first. Once Billings’s arrest was live, all it would take for Charlie to find out Amesworth was a lobbyist was a Google search for the relationship between Raymond Garfield and the dead lawyer. I clicked over to my browser and typed the name of Billings’s attorney into my Google bar to see where he worked. Holy shit: the guy’s name sounded familiar because he was a principal in Amesworth’s firm.
I clicked back over to my story, shaking my head. “Defending the guy accused of killing one of his own employees,” I said. “How does Captain Cologne sleep at night?”
By the time I finished pounding out the story and sent it to Bob, it was nearly lunchtime. Which meant my three o’clock deadline for filing my feature with Eunice was fast approaching, and I hadn’t even written the lead yet.
The morning’s police reports sounded so much sexier after my eavesdropping adventure, though. I stared at my notes for the feature, ignoring my noisy stomach and three emails from Eunice wanting to know where her story was. I clicked over to the PD reports database and scrolled, hunting for the one on the robbery. I found it just in time for my scanner to start squawking. I turned up the volume.
“Why the hell do they need a structural engineer for a car accident?” I wondered aloud, jotting down the address and typing it into Google maps. They were calling an awful lot of ambulances out there, too.
When the little red pin popped up, I scrambled to my feet and threw my bag over my shoulder.
“Where’s the fire, sugar?” Eunice asked as I almost mowed her down on my way to the elevator.
“The west end,” I called over my shoulder, not slowing down. “Someone ran a truck through a jewelry store. I promise I’ll have your feature ready by the end of the day.”
It took twenty minutes to get out there. I stopped and rolled down the window to flash my press pass at the RPD uniform guarding the parking lot entrance.
“Miss Clarke.” It
“Detective White is very busy this morning, but he said he’ll call you as soon as he has a chance,” she said. “Is that all we can do for you today?”
“I think it is, thanks.” Smiling, I flipped my notebook closed and tucked it back into my bag as I stood. I had some reports to read, and I still wanted to talk to Aaron, but maybe it wasn’t an entirely wasted side trip.
As an exclusive, the hearing story took precedence over everything else when I returned to the office. Except for coffee.
Pulling my syrup bottle from the cabinet, I shook my head as I tipped it over my cup. It was definitely lighter than it had been the day before. Was someone else using it? I pushed it to the very back of the shelf and took a couple of sips before I started for my desk with an over-full mug.
I tried to stay focused on Billings and his arrest as I typed, but my inner Lois Lane bounced, wanting to file that story and move on to the robbery.
Agents from the Richmond office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made an arrest Thursday in the murder of Daniel Amesworth, 29, the Henrico man whose body was found in the woods near Goochland earlier this week.
James Billings, 56, also of Henrico, was held overnight and released early Friday despite the objection of Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard Corry, who made a rare courtroom appearance to argue for keeping the Raymond Garfield executive in custody until after his trial.
“Mr. Billings is a flight risk,” Corry told Judge Reginald Davis. “Most of the murder defendants our courtrooms see don’t have his resources, or his connections. The Commonwealth wants to ensure that he stays in Virginia until the trial.”
Corry didn’t outline the particulars of the Commonwealth’s case, but the Telegraph has learned that the firm where Amesworth worked does political lobbying for Raymond Garfield.
I debated that sentence for a full three minutes, but left it in because I wanted to have it first. Once Billings’s arrest was live, all it would take for Charlie to find out Amesworth was a lobbyist was a Google search for the relationship between Raymond Garfield and the dead lawyer. I clicked over to my browser and typed the name of Billings’s attorney into my Google bar to see where he worked. Holy shit: the guy’s name sounded familiar because he was a principal in Amesworth’s firm.
I clicked back over to my story, shaking my head. “Defending the guy accused of killing one of his own employees,” I said. “How does Captain Cologne sleep at night?”
By the time I finished pounding out the story and sent it to Bob, it was nearly lunchtime. Which meant my three o’clock deadline for filing my feature with Eunice was fast approaching, and I hadn’t even written the lead yet.
The morning’s police reports sounded so much sexier after my eavesdropping adventure, though. I stared at my notes for the feature, ignoring my noisy stomach and three emails from Eunice wanting to know where her story was. I clicked over to the PD reports database and scrolled, hunting for the one on the robbery. I found it just in time for my scanner to start squawking. I turned up the volume.
“Why the hell do they need a structural engineer for a car accident?” I wondered aloud, jotting down the address and typing it into Google maps. They were calling an awful lot of ambulances out there, too.
When the little red pin popped up, I scrambled to my feet and threw my bag over my shoulder.
“Where’s the fire, sugar?” Eunice asked as I almost mowed her down on my way to the elevator.
“The west end,” I called over my shoulder, not slowing down. “Someone ran a truck through a jewelry store. I promise I’ll have your feature ready by the end of the day.”
It took twenty minutes to get out there. I stopped and rolled down the window to flash my press pass at the RPD uniform guarding the parking lot entrance.
“Miss Clarke.” It
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