Jay Jones reckless driving investigation shifts to Roanoke prosecutor

The continued investigation into the reckless driving arrest of Democratic Virginia Lawyer Basic candidate Jay Jones and subsequent 1,000 hours of service has now moved to its third jurisdiction – 200 miles throughout the state.

New Kent County Commonwealth’s Lawyer Scott Renick was the unique lead prosecutor within the case — earlier than recusing himself final week in a message to Decide Elliott Bondurant — who then appointed James Metropolis County Commonwealth’s Lawyer Nathan Inexperienced to proceed the investigation.

Jones was initially arrested in New Kent in 2022 for driving 116 mph on the notorious straight stretch of Interstate 64 between Charles Metropolis and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.

Bondurant has since signed a brand new denial of Inexperienced and referred the case from Williamsburg to Roanoke.

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Roanoke is understood for its well-known Mill Mountain Star atop a inexperienced stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway, its fashionable downtown, and its industrial historical past remembered by iconic neon indicators dotting the skyline. It is in a very completely different space than the place Jones’ unique case passed off.

New Kent and James Metropolis counties are reliably Republican, whereas Roanoke stands in stark distinction as a darkish blue circle on the map, surrounded by deep pink Roanoke County and the conservative New River Valley.

Star Metropolis’s chief prosecutor, Donald Caldwell, is an independent-turned-Democrat who can be the longest-serving Commonwealth’s Lawyer in Virginia, having been in workplace since 1979. In accordance with experiences, he’ll step down after his present time period.

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Fox Information Digital reached out to Caldwell’s workplace for a press release about his workplace dealing with the case.

Inexperienced formally knowledgeable Bondurant on Thursday that he would recuse himself as a result of it could be “inappropriate” for him to guide the investigation into Jones, with out elaborating.

Jones just lately represented close by Norfolk within the state Legislature and later labored for the town regulation agency Protogyrou — which represented him in his reckless driving case.

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The Mill Mountain Star outlines the skyline of Roanoke, Virginia. (Jeff Greenberg/Getty Photos)

Bondurant’s final order, obtained by the Nieuwpoort News Daily Pressmoved the case to Roanoke to make it geographically distant from the Ninth Judicial Circuit – which incorporates each the unique jurisdictions and the Northern Neck of Virginia.

The transfer to Roanoke did simply that, because the Star Metropolis is 4 hours west on US-460.

Questions have been raised concerning the validity or particulars of Jones’ 1,000 hours of group service — cut up evenly between his personal political motion committee: Meet Our Second, and the NAACP of Virginia.

Representatives from each organizations have filed affidavits obtained by Fox Information Digital testifying to the work Jones allegedly accomplished, however no time sheets or different documentation have been launched or made accessible as that timeframe spans almost 20 hours per week over the course of the case — hearings for which have been postponed a number of instances.

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Specifics had been additionally lacking from the affidavits, as Rev. Cozy Bailey — chief of the state NAACP chapter — wrote that Jones “offered assist in a number of ways in which tremendously benefited our group.”

A Freedom of Info Act request for paperwork and communications between New Kent County and the signatories of Jones Hours yielded a discover Tuesday that data couldn’t be shared due to a bit of Virginia code that states they might intrude with a sure ongoing legal investigation or proceed in a “significantly identifiable method.”