Post by Scumhunter on Jul 14, 2015 23:38:54 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Fredericksburg.com)
A woman indicted on seven felony charges and a misdemeanor is wanted in Caroline County in connection with a 2013 crash that killed a Spotsylvania County woman and injured four others.
Valerie Faye Gorham, 53, was indicted in May on four counts of maiming as a result of driving while intoxicated, involuntary manslaughter, reckless involuntary manslaughter as a result of driving under the influence, driving under the influence of drugs and possession of a controlled substance.
According to Virginia State Police reports, a two-vehicle collision occurred around 1:15 a.m. on June 26, 2013, in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 near Ladysmith.
Five relatives were heading north in the center travel lane in a 1998 Nissan Sentra when it was struck by a 2003 BMW X–5 traveling south in the northbound lanes.
The 19-year-old driver of the Nissan and three of her passengers, all of the Fredericksburg area, sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
Her back-seat passenger, 48-year-old Lucia Chavez of the 1000 block of Dewberry Drive in Spotsylvania, died at the scene.
Gorham, who was driving the BMW, was not seriously injured, but toxicology reports did find trace amounts of cocaine in her system.
Caroline County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tony Spencer said Gorham was expected to turn herself in, but no one knows where she is.
Spencer requested the assistance of the U.S. Marshal Service’s Fugitive Task Force to help find her.
Gorham is described as a black female standing 5 feet 9 inches tall weighing about 150 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.
She is known to have ties to Washington, D.C., Silver Spring, Md., Newport News and Robersonville, N.C.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Virginia State Police at 804/553-3445.
Thoughts? A wrong-way driver, sort of like the Chris Ponce case, although here cocaine is involved. There is nothing in any news reports about alcohol being involved as well, but Gorham was still behind the wheel under the influence.
www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/spotsylvania/most-wanted-woman-wanted-in-fatal-caroline-crash/article_131f77b1-ecdc-5135-8447-a9cfc075edf6.html
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