Thefts in Three Counties Earns 14 Year Prison Sentence

Jeffrey Scott Casey , a 41-year-old Dinwiddie man , went on a larceny crime spree last fall, burglarizing and stealing in Lunenburg, Prince George, and Dinwiddie.  Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Clement said Casey was sentenced in Lunenburg Circuit Court in a series of multiple convictions and sentences.

Jeffrey Scott Casey

Casey was sentenced to about 14 years active to be served in prison, and has decades of additional time suspended in all three counties.

In summarizing the evidence for the court, Clement said that in February, 2014, the Lunenburg Sheriff’s Office was notified by Dinwiddie County Sheriff’s Office that Casey and an adult female companion had been arrested regarding thefts in their area.  The female gave details of multiple burglaries, including one in Lunenburg that occurred December 1, 2013 in Dundas.

The woman said she and Casey had met the victim as the pastor of a church in Dinwiddie.  She had asked the pastor to help find work for Casey, and the pastor kindly hired Casey and the woman to cut some trees at his Lunenburg home.  He and his wife allowed them to use their bathroom in the house and fed them lunch.

The woman said Casey mentioned to her that he had seen jewelry in the bedroom of the house as he walked through the hallway.

Waiting until the next Sunday morning when they knew the pastor and his wife would be at church, Casey and the woman went back to the home in Dundas.  The woman said she let Casey out at the house and drove away, and picked him up later at a nearby intersection as he came out of the woods.  She said he pulled out the jewelry, throwing away pieces that did not contain gold, and went to a gold trader shop in Colonial Heights and sold the jewelry for $290.00.  The jewelry was valued at more than a thousand dollars.  Damage to two doors to gain entry totaled more than a thousand dollars as well.

The woman was also charged in the crime and has a trial date of September 9, 2014.

Clement said that, incredibly, Casey was sentenced to four years in prison in 2006 in Dinwiddie, but apparently did not learn a lesson from the experience.

Conditions of Jessup’s suspended portion of his sentence include good behavior, supervised probation upon his release, no contact and staying off the property of the victims, restitution of $3,201.00, and warrantless searches.