10 On Your Side Uncovers New Information about Jeffrey Young

    Using a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request to the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, 10 On Your Side has uncovered new information about the past of Jeffrey Young.

  At last report, Young was still in the custody of mental health authorities in Petersburg after an arrest for allegedly running down a complete stranger in mother’s car in the parking lot of a Floyd supermarket January 30th.  Court records show he then beat the woman with a stick.

  Jeffrey Young is listed in a Floyd County Sheriff’s Office incident report on July 24, 2006.

  At 4:10 PM, deputies were called to the Rocky Knob visitor’s center on the Blue Ridge Parkway after Young reported he had somehow completely severed his left hand.

  One deputy on scene remembers Young stored the amputated hand inside a cooler full of ice.

  The report does not say how Young cut off his left hand.

  The report states he was flown by helicopter to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

  The report also states he drove to the visitor’s center in a white Jeep Wrangler with a black top.

  Roanoke County police have impounded a 1998 White Jeep Wrangler in deadly hit and run investigation of Roanoke attorney Tom Farrell.

  Court records show police found papers with Young’s name on them inside the Jeep.

  Several eyewitnesses can put Young and the Jeep within a couple of miles of the Farrell hit and run crime scene on January 28th, only minutes after police believe it happened.

  Police are still investigating and Young has not been charged with any crimes in connection to the Farrell hit and run.

  Investigators have sent trace evidence from the Jeep to a state crime lab for analysis.

  A separate incident report states Floyd County deputies were called to the county courthouse at 12:43 PM on November 19, 2007.

  Someone complained Young was acting suspicious.

  The report states deputies found probable cause to hold Young for a four hour mental evaluation.

  They took Young to the sheriff’s office where he was interviewed by an official from Access Services, a mental health organization in Blacksburg.

  Police say the official released Young after the interview.

  A spokesman for Access Services said he could not comment on the evaulation due to federal privacy laws, or HIPPA regulations.

  Our FOIA also revealed a call from a Jeffrey Young to the Floyd County sheriff’s department about a minor traffic accident on February 10, 2004.

  The sheriff’s office also had a list of three “contacts” with Young when they had to serve him with civil papers between 2004 and 2007.

  On-line court records show those civil proceedings were court hearings on why Young could not pay several businesses, mostly hospital services.