Jump to full article: Newport News (VA) Daily Press, 2009-10-30
Author: Peter Dujardin
Intro: At about 11 p.m Monday, Jarry K. Ratliff, 27, took a break from his job at the McDonald's on Jefferson Avenue in Denbigh to light up a cigarette inside the restaurant.
Unfortunately for him, that happened to be when Newport News police officer Matthew Andreoli was going through the restaurant's drive-through.
Andreoli also knew about a new statewide ban on smoking in restaurants.
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He and two other men are accused of robbing two people outside an Ocean View motel in August 2004.
The officers then arrested Ratliff, who faces two counts each of robbery and abduction, four counts of using a gun in a felony and one count of conspiracy -- plus the smoking charge, punishable by a $25 fine.
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