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11-02-2004, 17:45
Hunting-Incident Defendant Serving Six Years on Drug Charges
A 48-year-old Virginia man convicted in May 2003 of reckless handling of a firearm in the January 1, 2003, shooting of A.T. 2,000-Miler George Ziegenfuss during a short hike on the Trail in Bland County is now in federal prison on drug charges, the Southwest Virginia Enterprise reports. Jackie Leon Keen, Sr., deer hunting that day with a muzzle-loader, was indicted last February on charges of conspiracy with intent to distribute oxycodone and possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense. He was sentenced August 21 to a 78-month term, the newspaper reported. He had received a suspended six-month sentence and $200 fine last May in the hiker case and lost his hunting privileges for life. Keen also was ordered to pay the medical expenses of Ziegenfuss, a retired Lutheran minister who has moved to Wythe County and underwent several operations as a result of the shot in the back. No payments have been made, state officials told the newspaper.
October 14, 2004
A 48-year-old Virginia man convicted in May 2003 of reckless handling of a firearm in the January 1, 2003, shooting of A.T. 2,000-Miler George Ziegenfuss during a short hike on the Trail in Bland County is now in federal prison on drug charges, the Southwest Virginia Enterprise reports. Jackie Leon Keen, Sr., deer hunting that day with a muzzle-loader, was indicted last February on charges of conspiracy with intent to distribute oxycodone and possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense. He was sentenced August 21 to a 78-month term, the newspaper reported. He had received a suspended six-month sentence and $200 fine last May in the hiker case and lost his hunting privileges for life. Keen also was ordered to pay the medical expenses of Ziegenfuss, a retired Lutheran minister who has moved to Wythe County and underwent several operations as a result of the shot in the back. No payments have been made, state officials told the newspaper.
October 14, 2004