Attorney appointed, October hearing date set in Jackson Street drug case

Bradley David Light – Courtesy Photo/RSW Jail

A preliminary hearing date of October 2nd has been set in the two-count drug distribution/manufacture case of Bradley David Light. Light was in court Tuesday morning, March 5, for a bond hearing after failing to appear on Friday (March 1).

As previously reported Light refused van transport from Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren (RSW) Regional Jail on Friday, claiming claustrophobia according to jail personnel cited in a Refusal to Appear criminal complaint added as a third charge against Light that day.

On Tuesday Warren County General District Court Judge W. Dale Houff appointed Winchester-based Public Defender Matt Beyrau to represent Light. Houff also made no change in Light’s current bond status – he is being held at RSW Regional Jail without bond – but noted that after discussion with his court-appointed attorney he could apply to have bond set. Light did not speak during the brief hearing.

The 54-year-old Light faces one charge of narcotics distribution related to the purchase of the drug buprenorphine by a confidential informant working with the Virginia State Police Drug Task Force unit and a second charge of manufacture of a controlled substance referenced as methamphetamine during Tuesday’s hearing.

The manufacture charge resulted from a February 27 search warrant executed by the Virginia State Police-led Regional Drug Task Force during Light’s arrest at his 409 East Jackson Street residence.

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409 E. Jackson St. with lower level storage area door open and contents in yard – Photos/Roger Bianchini

The criminal complaint resulting from the search warrant references the manufacture of “methamphetamine, its salts, somers”, as well as the seizure of a “Hydrochloric gas generator, one pot, empty Pseudoedrin package, hypophosphite salts, liquefied ammonia gas, and hydrochloric acid.”

Michel Fleming represented the commonwealth during Tuesday’s hearing.