22-Year-Old Continues Making Bad Choices

Tyrone Rainey, a 22 year old Victoria man of 1407 9th Street, who had a chance to avoid a felony conviction and mandatory jail sentence in 2012, but failed to comply with his conditions, ending up with the felony of Assaulting a Law Enforcement Officer and serving a seven month jail sentence, violated the law again in 2014 with convictions of Obstruction of Justice and Resisting Arrest.

Tyrone Rainey

As a result, Rainey saw a year revoked on his suspended sentence recently in Lunenburg Circuit Court on a Show Cause Revocation Hearing for failing to be of good behavior.  Rainey threw a fit in the courtroom after being sentenced, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Clement, complaining that the judge’s decision was “crazy” and asking, “So you can just throw a man’s life away?” as he was briskly escorted out of the courtroom by two deputy sheriffs.

Rainey had rejected the prosecutor’s offer to take a six-month sentence, and demanded a hearing with the judge to decide.  He did not testify, but called an older woman with whom he lived to testify as to details of his life, including the fact of a baby on the way by another woman. It was stated in court that he had two children by two other women.  He requested that he be allowed to have a delayed reporting date to jail so he could attend the birth of the new baby.  He also asked for work release, but both requests were denied by the judge.

Rainey’s original conviction of Assault and Battery Upon a Law Enforcement Officer arose when police officers were executing a search warrant in 2012 at a residence on Mecklenburg Street just outside Victoria.  According to Clement, Rainey attempted to avoid a search of his pants pocket by swinging his arm around behind his back and knocking the officer’s arm away, and then attempting to run away.  Rainey tripped and fell, and was apprehended in the yard of the residence.