Kenyan man faces child neglect charges

A Suffolk grand jury indicted 33 defendants on 65 charges this week, including a man who allegedly left his two young nieces home alone.

Patrick Thuo, 27, was arrested March 7 after a traffic stop. When asked for identification, he told the officer he is from Kenya and in the United States on a visa, city spokeswoman Debbie George said at the time of the arrest.

The officer sent another officer to the residence where the vehicle was registered in an attempt to get some identification from the man. That officer allegedly found the door open with Thuo’s 1- and 6-year-old nieces there alone.

According to George, the investigation revealed the girls’ mother had left them in Thuo’s care, but he decided to go shoe shopping.

He was indicted on two counts each of child abuse and neglect, cruelty or injury to a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In addition, the man who pleaded guilty of attempting to steal from a retired police officer after getting shot at during the botched burglary has been indicted on more charges from a separate incident.

Quamaine Lassiter was indicted on charges of possession of marijuana by an inmate, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and obstruction of justice.

The charges stem from a July 19, 2010, incident in which an officer detected a heavy odor of marijuana on Lassiter in the 1000 block of Cogic Square, George said. After being told he would be searched for narcotics, Lassiter allegedly ran, throwing a bag of cocaine as he fled.

After he was taken into custody on the charges, Lassiter was searched at Western Tidewater Regional Jail, where jail officials found marijuana in his buttocks.

The full list of indictments is below.

• Anthony Bates — receiving stolen property; intent to sell stolen property; possession of vehicle with altered VIN number
• James Thomas Baum — grand larceny
• Kenyatta L. Benton — failure to appear on felony charge
• Edward Lee Brown — child cruelty; domestic assault and battery
• Robyn Leigh Burcham — grand larceny
• Darryl Christopher Campbell — possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
• Davon Maurice Cheeks — assault on law enforcement/DOC person
• Tina Trisha Durosseau — grand larceny
• Iris Laverne Ellis-Odallo — driving while intoxicated by drugs, third offense
• Lois Vanessa Gary —forgery; uttering; grand larceny
• Joseph Cativo Gonsalves — credit card theft; credit card fraud
• Lavele Marquice Hayes — possession of cocaine with intent to distribute
• Thomasina L. Houk — habitual offender, subsequent offense
• James Brodie Jernigan — reckless driving, endangering life
• Deshaun Marqui Johnson — robbery of business with gun; use of a firearm in commission of a felon, first offense; conspiracy to commit robbery
• Quamaine Lassiter — possession of marijuana by an inmate; possession of cocaine with intent to distribute; obstruction of justice: drug/gang etc.
• Heather Ann McCarter — forge public records
• Patricia Lynn Perry — embezzlement more than $200
• Toi Porter — malicious wounding
• Toni Marie Ramirez — possession of vehicle with altered VIN number; receiving stolen property; obtain money by false pretenses; intent to sell stolen property
• Norris Ray Riddick — concealment, third or subsequent offense
• Fernando Rodriguez — assault and battery; point/brandish firearm
• Alexander Ruffin — possession of cocaine with intent to distribute; possession of heroin with intent to distribute; possession of firearm/ammunition by felon
• Kenneth Tyrone Skinner — possession of cocaine
• Lynda Iona Stewart — possession of cocaine
• Bennie Ewing Tankersley III — domestic assault and battery, third offense
• Patrick Thuo — child abuse/neglect (2 counts); cruelty/injury to child (2 counts); contribute to delinquency of a minor (2 counts)
• Shannon Stallworth Weaver — obtain prescription drugs by fraud
• Nicholas Wellons — threatening to burn
• James Martinelli White — embezzlement more than $200 (3 counts)
• Brian Lamont Williams — possession of marijuana with intent to distribute; possession of cocaine with intent to distribute; possession of firearm by violent felon; psosesison of firearm with drugs
• Stephanie Annette Williams — attempted malicious wounding; child abuse and neglect; assault and battery of family member; contribute to delinquency of a minor
• Dionne C. Windley — cruelty/injury to a child; contribute to delinquency of a minor