Tuesday, May 05, 2009
UNITE Impersonator Pleads Guilty
Tony Ray Herald of Pike County pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Pikeville to working with Vernon Todd Griffie, a former Perry County volunteer sheriff's deputy, and going to homes of people in Letcher and Knott counties for the purpose of scoping them out and arranging to buy drugs. Later, the two would return, impersonating police and Operation UNITE officers, and, while using a gun, place the victims in handcuffs while robbing them of cash and pills. An accomplice, Brooke Leann Collins, pleaded guilty in Feburary to helping in September 2007 with the robbery of a Mayking resident. Griffey filed for a rearrainment in April and is awaiting a second psychiatric evaluation following a suicide attempt. Herald will be sentenced August 17th.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:03 PM 
