The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia -... -
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Published on: 12/13/2006
Last Visited: 12/13/2006
Ronald J. Collins Jr., 26, of MacArthur faces 36 years in prison and/or a $750,000 fine if convicted, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia.Collins was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury convening in Charleston.
Collins is charged with forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with an officer of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Police Service while the officer was performing his official duties in Beckley Nov. 18, according to the indictment.
On Nov. 29, and also in Beckley, Collins is accused of doing the same to a chief and a lieutenant of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Police Service, this time inflicting bodily injury upon the chief, according to the indictment.