RUSTBURG — A former Liberty University convocation director pleaded guilty Thursday to five charges in connection with a series of Campbell County burglaries.
Scott Alan Ray, 43, pleaded guilty in Campbell County Circuit Court to four felony counts of burglary and a misdemeanor charge of possession of hydrocodone, a narcotic painkiller.
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul McAndrews told the court Ray was arrested after a Spring Oaks Drive resident who believed someone had been breaking into his home set up a surveillance camera. McAndrews said the camera captured Ray walking through the man’s home and taking the hydrocodone.
A Campbell County Sheriff’s Office news release in September noted investigators recognized Ray in the video from a 2005 arrest on a similar offense. McAndrews said Thursday that investigators were able to con-nect Ray to four separate break-ins between November 2008 and September last year.
In one of the incidents, McAndrews said, one victim had been attending a basketball game at Liberty University with Ray. The prosecutor said the woman mentioned to Ray that her son had been hurt recently and that Ray seemed particularly interested in what painkillers the son was taking.
McAndrews said Ray left the basketball game, then went to the woman’s home and broke in. He was foiled when another of the woman’s sons was home at the time.
Grady Donaldson, Ray’s lawyer, told the court Ray completed a residential substance abuse program and has been in follow-up treatment.
“He has taken care of his addiction,” Donaldson said.
Ray pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of trespassing last month in Lynchburg General District Court and was given a 12-month suspended sentence. The charge had been reduced from another breaking-and-entering charge from an August incident on Leesville Road.
He is set to be sentenced in Campbell County on April 21. He is currently free on bond.
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