A man charged with helping an inmate escape from jail in Lynchburg was denied bond on Thursday.
Joseph Edward Vesley, 19, of Urbanna, was in the Lynchburg Adult Detention Center on drug charges when Larry Dodson Jr. made his March 10 escape.
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Chuck Felmlee told Judge Leyburn Mosby that witnesses will testify to seeing Vesley throw bed sheets up to Dodson.
According to authorities, Dodson escaped from the jail’s recreation area by lowering himself more than 100 feet on a rope made of tied-together bed sheets. After almost a month on the run through eastern North Carolina and Louisiana, Dodson was captured April 5 near Savannah, Ga.
In seeking bond, defense attorney William Quillian told the judge that Vesley had been accepted into a halfway house and a drug-rehabilitation program in the Richmond area.
The judge denied the request, but did order Vesley transferred to the jail in Rustburg after Quillian complained his client had to be jailed in Lynchburg in solitary confinement as the only means of protection against inmates who had threatened him.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Doucette said prosecutors in Chatham County, Ga., will go forward with felony charges there against Dodson of theft by receiving stolen property, theft by bringing stolen property into the state, and eluding before he is brought back to Virginia to face any escape charges here.
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