ANTHONY LUNDY, JR.
SOLDIER FROM PETERSBURG CHARGED WITH AT T. MURDER
Also: Probe into $21,000 worth of missing MATES batteries
A Petersburg National Guardsman — wanted on an Attempted Murder charge in Richmond — has been arrested recently at Fort Pickett.
State Police say Anthony Jabar Lundy, Jr., who was apprehended on base without incident on Saturday, Dec. 10th, also is charged with Malicious Discharge of a Firearm in a Building, Use of a Firearm in Commission of a Felony, and Failure to Appear in Court. Sources tell the Courier- Record that Lundy had reported to Pickett for weekend drill. Nottoway deputies responded to assist State Police.
Lundy, 31, was transported to Nottoway Sheriff’s Office and then Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville.
The alleged Attempted Murder occurred May 4th of this year, according to court records. He was arrested May 18th, indicted in Richmond Circuit Court in October, and allegedly failed to appear in court on Nov. 29th, according to online court records.
The National Guard at presstime said that Lundy is a private first class assigned as a horizontal construction engineer in the Blackstone-based 157th Engineer Platoon, 276th Engineer Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group. He enlisted in the Virginia National Guard March 30, 2018, and has approximately four years and eight months of service. He is a traditional status National Guard Soldier, meaning he normally attends training one weekend each month and 15 days each year.
In other unrelated news at Pickett, the National Guard confirmed reports to this newspaper that an investigation is underway into suspected theft of a large number of batteries from MATES.
In a statement, the Guard said, “Supervisors at the Fort Pickett Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site (MATES) conduct routine quarterly inventories of all assigned equipment and supplies, and during an inventory conducted Nov. 10, 2022, discovered 92 batteries worth approximately $21,000 were missing. Virginia State Police was immediately contacted to begin an investifacilities gation, and the VNG is awaiting results of the investigation to take any further action.”
The Guard statement added, “More than 90 personnel assigned to the MATES provide maintenance support for 12 direct support and package units and more than 250 combat vehicles and other equipment positioned at Fort Pickett…
“In addition to VNG vehicles, MATES personnel maintain equipment assigned to the North Carolina and West Virginia Army National Guard which is drawn when units from those states come to Fort Pickett for training…”
Loading Comments