Five indicted in racketeering charges

By Linda Cicoira

     Five Accomack County residents were indicted by a Northampton grand jury this week on April 16 racketeering charges.

     Forty-four-year-old Carolyn Jane Abbott, and 18-year-old Marquis Jamar Baines, both of White’s Neck Road in Parksley, and 25-year-old Javontae Tyrell Harris, of Daugherty Road in Accomac, were indicted on counts of racketeering, uttering a forged check, and conspiring to racketeer.

      Twenty-one-year-old Anthony Jquan Beckett, of Scott Lane in Tasley, was indicted on two counts of forgery, two counts of uttering, racketeering, and conspiring to racketeer.

     Twenty-two-year-old Lanequa Pauline Beckett, of Savagetown Road in Painter, was indicted on counts of racketeering and conspiring to racketeer.