BY NANCY DRURY DUNCAN, Eastern Shore Post —
A 420-pound Accomack County man who was convicted of distributing oxycodone tried unsuccessfully to have his incarceration delayed while his medical care in prison is coordinated.
Travis Wade Bailey, 59, of Temperanceville, was reciting a list of his medical problems when he was interrupted by an Accomack Circuit Court judge, who asked what Bailey’s medical condition had to do with his sentencing.
Bailey said he suffers from diabetic skin ulcers, high blood pressure, herniated discs, has plates and screws in his arm, has a veinal filter to prevent fatal blood clots, and received injuries in an automobile accident, among other ailments.
Bailey had difficulty walking into the courtroom, even with a walker. He told the court he had weighed 545 pounds but had lost some weight.
His presentence report stated his weight at 420 pounds, said Michael Baker, assistant commonwealth’s attorney.
“Seems like you should be the last person in the world to be distributing oxycodone,” Judge Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. told Bailey.
Carl Bundick, Bailey’s lawyer, asked that his client be allowed delayed reporting to jail to determine his medical care while incarcerated.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Baker said Bailey had 14 charges of drug-related offenses on his record, including a 16-year prison sentence for distribution in Maryland in 2015 from which he was paroled.
The judge commented on Bailey’s seven-page criminal history. He denied his request for a delayed reporting to jail, noting that the case was first set for sentencing in January and said Bailey requested and received a continuance for the same reason.
Lewis sentenced Bailey to 10 years with all but one year suspended. He ordered him to be on two years of supervised probation and on good behavior for five years.
He remanded him to jail.
“They will get you straight when you get over there,” he told him.
