Cape Charles woman sentenced for forged check; two others sentenced in separate Northampton cases

By Linda Cicoira

A Cape Charles woman was given suspended sentences Monday in Northampton Circuit Court for a felony charge of uttering a forged check and a misdemeanor count of illegally obtaining less than $1,000.

. Twenty-seven-year-old Marie Nicole Williams pleaded guilty to the offenses, which involved checks belonging to her father in May of 2024. Williams was given a five-year suspended sentence for uttering and a 12-month suspended sentence for illegally obtaining money.

In a plea bargain agreement, she agreed to repay a local bank $3,900 for several checks. She was given five years of supervised probation for each offense.

In another case, 25-year-old Tra’veon Lemar Satchell, of Trehernville Drive in Birdsnest, was sentenced to five years with all but six months suspended and fined $200 for felony eluding police in October 2024. He will be on supervised probation for three years. The incident occurred on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

Twenty-six-year-old Jakobi Kyree Taylor, of West 33rd Street in Norfolk, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison with all but five months suspended for destruction of property. According to court records, he used his fist to crack a window in the C Housing Unit of the Eastern Shore Regional Jail, which caused more than $1,000 worth of damage on Jan. 11. Restitution was $5,576.