The 18-year-old charged in a series of crimes that set the city of Salem on edge last month was denied bond Thursday.

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Bradley Michael Poff was indicted Sept. 20 on seven felonies, including robbery, grand larceny and abduction and eluding, related to a series of incidents that occurred Sept. 18.
Poff's attorney, , said Thursday that the day of the alleged spree, Poff was on probation related to adjudications he received as a juvenile. Several of those juvenile charges are expected to be dismissed in the coming months, Horn said.
Poff was charged in July 2023 with underage possession of marijuana and alcohol, 听said Thursday. Those charges were taken under advisement, and the teen was ordered to comply with probation and to complete a substance abuse assessment.
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According to information Poff provided during that assessment, Agee said, he began using alcohol at the age of 13. He also advised that he had used marijuana for the first time at the age of 8 and tobacco for the first time at the age of 6, smoking up to a pack a day over the previous year.
The following fall and winter, Agee said, Poff was charged with multiple probation violations, which stemmed from positive drug screens and failures to appear for drug screens. In July, he was involved with a standoff with police at the Riverside Mobile Home Park on West Riverside Drive in Salem. And in August, he cut off his GPS monitor bracelet.
The Sept. 18 crime spree,听 said Thursday, began when a white Nissan Pathfinder was stolen from the Riverside trailer park. The owner had started the vehicle to get it warm, then left it running, Pollard said. It was gone when the owner returned.
Shortly after that, police received reports of a robbery in 麻花视频 County. Pollard said a male in a Pathfinder had stolen a high school student's cellphone as the child was walking to the bus stop.
After that, police got a call about an attempted robbery at a parking garage in the听1800 block of Braeburn Drive, Pollard said. A woman was approached by a male in a Pathfinder, who brandished a firearm at her and demanded she give him her purse. Pollard said the woman ran into a stairwell and escaped the threat.
A few minutes later, in a parking lot in the 1800 block of Electric Road, a mother had parked her Audi in an alleyway, Pollard said. Her 5-year-old son, who is autistic and nonverbal, did not want to enter the store with her, so she left him in the back seat while she went inside to get a drink.
Pollard said the male who was driving the stolen Pathfinder abandoned that vehicle and stole the Audi, with the boy still inside. When the mother noticed the vehicle was being stolen, she chased it to an intersection, where she pulled on the driver side door handle. But the door was locked, and the male drove the car away.
Police located the stolen Audi and, knowing a child was inside pursued the vehicle from a distance, Pollard continued. The driver eventually abandoned the car on Intervale Drive in Salem and fled on foot back to Riverside Mobile Home Park.
Police tracked the phone stolen from the high school student from the trailer park to a residence on Wilson Street that belongs to Poff's father, Joshua Patterson, according to court information. Pollard said the man permitted officers enter the home, and inside they found Poff.
Pollard said a search of the residence also yielded a pair of dark sweatpants that had been fashioned into a head covering, or mask. Salem police reported last month that the coverings "made it virtually impossible to compile an accurate description that could have assisted in his capture."
According to an executed search warrant document, police also found a purse in the living room that contained "a small pouch with dinosaurs imprinted on it," an affidavit reads. Inside the pouch was "a clear sandwich bag with a glass pipe and an off-white substance" consistent with methamphetamine.
Horn asked Thursday that Poff be ordered into the Western Virginia Regional Jail's , or RSAT. The defense attorney said the teen wants substance abuse treatment and is already on the program's wait list.听
Clemens said that Poff is innocent until he is proven guilty, but found that the teen is a danger to himself and others and denied his bond request. While the judge did not order Poff into the RSAT program, he did encourage the teen to stay on the wait list.