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Jump to full article: Newport News (VA) Daily Press, 2009-11-03
Author: Peter Dujardin
Intro: NEWPORT NEWS - The good news for Jarry K. Ratliff is that he might avoid the $25 fine he faces for smoking in a local McDonald's last week.
The bad news? He still faces armed robbery, abduction and gun charges that could land him in prison for a long time.
Ratliff, 27, a McDonald's employee, was discovered as a fugitive Oct. 26. That came after a Newport News police officer at the drive-through of McDonald's, on Jefferson Avenue in Denbigh, spotted Ratliff lighting up a cigarette inside.
In issuing Ratliff a smoking summons, Officer Matthew Andreoli and Sgt. Daniel Butler ran Ratliff's name through a national database of fugitives, finding he was wanted in an armed robbery outside a Norfolk motel in 2004.
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