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Man charged with trying to abduct boy at Oceanfront
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by CJaye | June 6, 2008 at 04:29 am
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Steve Vernon Fleming
A 54-year-old man is being held without bond in the city jail on a charge that he tried to abduct a 4-year-old boy Wednesday at the Oceanfront.
The child was standing in line with his mother about 8:50 p.m. at the Dairy Queen, at 16th Street and Atlantic Avenue, when a man grabbed the boy and started to run away. The child’s mother chased the man down, and wrestled her son away.
The mother walked her son back to a table where other family members were sitting and called police. As she spoke with an emergency dispatcher, the man returned to the family’s table and “tried to entice” the boy to come with him.
Witnesses pointed to Steve Vernon Fleming, 54, as police began to arrive at the scene. Fleming, was arrested and booked into the Virginia Beach Correctional Facility on one count of attempted abduction.
source: http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/man-charged-trying-abduct-boy-oceanfront
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at 05:46 on June 6th, 2008
I found this in a Georiga newpaper it was written last year. Also I don't know if it is the same man the age is right also he's an indegent, fit's the profile.
DUI SENTENCINGS
Steve Vernon Fleming, 53, of Gilbert, S.C., 14 days in jail, 12 months' probation, fined $941 and ordered to perform 30 days of community service, undergo clinical evaluation for substance abuse, pay a $25 photo fee, surrender tags, pay a $50 indigent defense assessment fee and attend a risk-reduction program
source: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/091307/ric_143341.shtml
at 05:56 on June 6th, 2008
CJaye, thanks for the update. (We also have our Highlight tool, which makes quoting a bit easier and less copy-pasty... check out the snazzy new link in the upper right of this page)
at 06:00 on June 6th, 2008
CJaye, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:16 on June 6th, 2008
Jordon, there must be a problem on your end I use the highlight tool everytime I post a article. I get a message 99% of the time I post about the highlight tool. I don't understand what your not seeing I see it why can't you? Jordon please fix it because I feel like I'm back in grade school having a paper graded by you guys eveytime I post. This is just crazy!
at 06:29 on August 13th, 2008
CJaye, I like this story. It's good stuff. I am a close friend of the family in this article. Steve Fleming has a long list of prior conviction as well as mental/substance abuse. Maybe if the court system would have gotten him the help he needed, this might not have happened. Thank goddness that the Mom reacted as quickly as she did, as she was able to save her son and who know how many other children that could have potentially fallen pray to this person.
at 07:01 on August 13th, 2008
I keep forgetting about the reply thingy sorry Rene':)
horatiossweepea when I answered you I didn't use reply and you should but I keep forgetting.
at 06:59 on August 13th, 2008
Thank you for the flag and comment. You having a connection makes it hard I'm sure. If the courts did what they should have he'd just be in jail. Someone who cares about him needs to speak for him if he's that messed up. Put him in a Treatment Center! They have clinic's all over Virginia where mental health can admit him without insurance. This is the problem with 90% of the homeless mental patients now in Virginia. They don't have or don't think they have anyone who cares. Being a perp is a mental problem in my opinion! Thank God he didn't get his hands on that child and his mother was there. I'm telling you if I'd been at the beach that night OMG ! My only fear is that the sweet child doesn't carry the memory of this scum the rest of his life and scar him into years of therapy.