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Three face charges after Smith Mt. Lake campground fight

By Carrie J. Sidener Lynchburg News & Advance
Published: August 17, 2009

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Updated 3/18 at 3:01 PM

A Ridgeway woman faces an attempted murder charge and two men face assault charges after a fight Saturday at a Smith Mountain Lake campground, authorities said.

Bedford County deputies were called to Eagle’s Roost Camp Ground on Smith Mountain Parkway in Huddleston at about 10:30 a.m. for a report of an assault, authorities said.

Two women were in a scuffle at the campground. When one drove away, she nearly ran over someone, authorities said. The woman who stayed behind told deputies she had been hit in the head by the woman driving the car, the release said.

Also, a man at the campground told deputies that a male passenger in the car hit him with a beer bottle, authorities said.

Deputies later stopped a car matching the description driving on Smith Mountain Lake Parkway.

The driver, Sandra Mikles, 40, of Ridgeway, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault and battery and conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.

One of her passengers, male age 17 and also of Ridgeway, was arrested and charged with malicious wounding.

Another 17-year-old male passenger in the car from Ridgeway was arrested and charged with assault and underage possession of alcohol.

Mikles and one of the juveniles are held without bond in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail. The unidentified 17-year-old is held at the Lynchburg Detention Home.

The victims are from Staunton.