By Linda Cicoira — Rashem Huhi Amun-Re, of Onancock, a violent felon, admitted Wednesday in Accomack Circuit Court to possessing cocaine, heroin, marijuana, guns, a bulletproof vest, more than $2,000 in cash, and two pipe bombs, when he was arrested last August after police came to his house looking for a suspect in an unrelated hit-and-run crash.
His motives for having explosives, guns, and the vest were not mentioned during the trial. He told police he did not sell drugs, he used them.
Also known as Aman-Re, 40, he entered pleas via an agreement with Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Randy Fultz. The defendant admitted to possessing the drugs, the bombs, being a felon and possessing guns, and possessing guns while possessing drugs, all felonies. Fultz did not prosecute a charge of possession of fentanyl, which couldn’t be proved, and possession of a stolen gun because the original owner of the weapon could not be found.
Fultz also did not pursue drug distribution charges. He said although a search warrant was issued before the items were seized there could have been questions about the sweep police conducted after smelling marijuana and being told no one was home by the accident suspect even though Amun-Re was inside. Fultz said the warrant did not list items the officers saw when they did the sweep.
Amun-Re had been free on an unspecified bond and was working at a local Royal Farms. Judge W. Revell Lewis III remanded him to jail to await sentencing set for Oct. 3. The defendant could be given up to 50 years in prison and fined up to $15,000. Amun-Re legally changed his name from Terrell Stewart more than a decade ago, He was convicted abduction and robbery that occurred in 1999.
