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Steven Rene Wright, the 20-year-old police informant in the Ryan Frederick case, was granted bond Thursday and will be freed if he pays it. The case involves grand larceny, credit card theft and fraud.
Circuit Judge Bruce Kushner granted Wright a $25,000 secured bond on a charge of grand larceny and $2,000 personal recognizance bonds on other charges against him.
Wright has been in the Virginia Beach jail since October after he failed to appear in court on the charges against him. He was indicted in Chesapeake in October on a felony charge of failure to appear.
Wright was a confidential police informant in a drug investigation of Ryan Frederick, a 29-year-old Portlock man on trial in Chesapeake Circuit Court in the fatal shooting of a detective on Jan. 17, 2008, as authorities attempted to execute a search warrant at Frederick's home. Wright, who was working with police as an informant, has admitted burglarizing Frederick's garage days before the deadly police raid. He has not been charged.
Wright's attorney argued that he has family ties to the area and that the charges against him are nonviolent offenses.
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Amanda Abbey asked that Wright be held to guarantee that he appears in court, if needed, for the capital murder case against Frederick and other cases. Wright will be supervised while free on bond and must remain in the area, the judge ruled.
John Hopkins, (757) 222-5221, john.hopkins@pilotonline.com
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He must have had a good bail
He must have had a good bail bond for these charges. The only time I was unfairly charged I had to call Austin bail bonds to get me out of trouble. Innocent people have the right to a good protection against unfair charges.
INFORMANT
I don't care what time of day it is, if someone busts down my door with a gun and I am armed I will put them down. Officer Shivers is a victim of this country's moronic "war on drugs". There was no reason for the CPD to raid Fredrick's house. Even if he had a million marijuana plants in his house he posed no threat to anyone's life, liberty or property.
On top of all this the police got their search warrant based on the statements of someone that had broken into Fredrick's house? A break in that may have been at the request of the CPD?
A very weak case for the prosecution...
Well I guess I'll be seeing
Well I guess I'll be seeing him soon.
I give it a month before he
I give it a month before he is re-arrested on new charges.
so funny
It's amazing to me how all of you self proclaimed "FREE RYAN" fanatics can't see the forest for the trees. I think everyone is caught up in what is being said at this trial rather than the bigger picture...Ryan Frederick pulled the trigger, not Steven Wright! No matter how you slice it he was shooting to kill "someone" that night. And, in the country I live in...that's murder. It was not "in the middle of the night" like everyone is making it out to be. It was 8:30 pm. You can't tell me after all the events that had taken place over the past few days, (i.e. someone breaking into his home), he would be sound asleep at that time of night. Further more, Steven Wright might not be the most creditable witness in this case, but his testimony should not be discounted. He was "hanging" with Ryan just a few days before. He had been welcomed into Frederick's home as a guest several times. Frederick IS GUILTY. He committed a crime that should not be overlooked. He killed someone. He was aiming for someones husband, son, father, brother... Now, whether Det. Shivers was the "right" recipient of that bullet, we will never know. I don't think that Steven Wright should be raked over the coals for
Dumb and Dumber
Chesapeake Dumb
Virginia Beach Dumber
Stay Gold,
TPB
Bruce Kushner
Judge Kushner was a prominate Chesapeake attorney and was also a judge in Chesapeake. I was unaware that Judge Kushner had moved to Virginia Beach as a judge.
Please!
Please don't tell me that there is a conspiracy between the prosecutors in the RF case and the judge in the bond hearing. Strange decision!
oh great
another criminal loose on the streets, think he'll contact CPD about some great information he will sell them for $500?
Are you freakin kidding me??
Are you freakin kidding me?? The day after he LIES on the witness stand he gets out of jail? Seriously, this is just wrong.......