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Chesterfield cop sentenced to jail for stealing woman’s ring

A Chesterfield County police officer was sentenced to serve two months in jail Tuesday for stealing a diamond ring from a woman he drove to the hospital and then selling it at a Colonial Heights pawn shop.
As part of a negotiated agreement, Officer 1st Class Joshua J. Hill, 34, entered an Alford plea to a charge of petit larceny, reduced from felony embezzlement, in the theft of ring between Feb. 10 and May 10 of last year.


Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges there is sufficient evidence for a judge or jury to find him guilty. Special prosecutor Nelson Fisher agreed to reduce the charge in part because the victim in the case has since died and is no longer available to testify.
Chesterfield Circuit Judge Harold W. Burgess Jr. accepted Hill’s plea, which is tantamount to pleading guilty, and sentenced him under terms of the agreement to 12 months in jail with 10 months suspended. Hill also must surrender his Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services law enforcement license.
Hill reports to jail Jan. 24 and will be allowed to serve his time on weekends or under the jail’s work-release program.
According to a summary of evidence, Hill responded to an emergency medical call Feb. 10, 2013, and transported a woman with mental-health issues to a local hospital. Before she died less than a month later, she told family members she had given two rings to Hill for safekeeping.
Following the woman’s death, family members tried to inquire about the rings by leaving voicemail messages for Hill, but the officer never returned their calls. After a friend of the woman’s family sought to retrieve the jewelry and notified police, the department began an investigation and a detective questioned Hill about the items.
Hill told the detective that he found one of the rings in question in the rear seat of his patrol car. That ring, which contained several diamonds, was appraised at $7,500. Hill told the detective that he sold it for $145 at Boulevard Pawn in Colonial Heights and pocketed the money.
Hill said he retrieved the other ring, which had little value, from a hospital trash can after the woman he assisted had thrown it there. Hill turned that ring over to the police and investigators recovered the diamond ring from a person who purchased it through the pawn shop.
The prosecutor said described Hill as a thief who betrayed the public trust and “failed to exercise his good judgment” in a situation that was “completely avoidable.”
“This is more than your typical property crime case,” Fisher said.
Defense attorney Craig Sampson said there is no question that Hill mishandled the woman’s property, but the offense was more of a crime of opportunity than one of premeditation.
The judge described the plea agreement as a “fair resolution” to the case considering the circumstances, noting that state sentencing guidelines would have called for probation and no jail time had Hill been convicted of the felony offense. Hill, who joined the force in 2009, left the department last September.
After the proceeding, a Chesterfield detective returned both of the rings to the victim’s family.