James Dyer Buckland is from Virginia, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:
- He is a resident of Pound, Wise County, Virginia. (a)
- On January 13, 2018, Pound Police Department officers pulled over his car in Wise County and found that he had the ingredients to make meth with him. He was arrested and charged with possession of precursors to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of paraphernalia. (b)
- On May 20, 2020, he was facing probation revocation in connection with previous felonies. (c)
- On May 7, 2021, he allegedly shot Norton Police Department chief James Lane near Central High School in Norton, Virginia. That day, he was arrested, charged with attempted capital murder, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and held without bail at the Washington County Detention Center in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. (a) (c) (d) (e)
- He was 36 years old when he was arrested on May 7, 2021. (c)
- On May 27, 2021, he appeared in Wise County General District Court to face charges of attempted capital murder of a police officer, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. (e)
- His case related to the shooting of Lane on May 7, 2021 was rescheduled for a preliminary hearing on July 9, 2021. (e)
- On August 18, 2021, he was indicted on 17 counts related to the shooting of Lane on May 7, 2021. His new charges were brandishing a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, assault and battery of a law enforcement officer, use of a firearm in the commission of felony assault and battery of a law enforcement officer, aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of aggravated malicious wounding, malicious bodily injury to a law enforcement officer, use of a firearm in the commission of malicious bodily injury to a law enforcement officer, shooting a firearm into a vehicle, shooting a firearm in a street resulting in bodily injury, reckless handling of a firearm with reckless disregard for human life and causing serious injury, destruction of property, use of a firearm in the commission of felony destruction of property, disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon. (d)
- On August 23, 2021, he pleaded not guilty to charges related to the shooting of Lane on May 7, 2021. That day, he remained at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Duffield, Scott County, Virginia. (a)
- His trial is on track for January 31, 2022 through February 4, 2022. (a)
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SOURCES:
CONAN Daily 
I could tell you alot more than 10 things about James buckland not that you’d believe them you all have made him out to be a monster, I’m not saying what he did wasn’t wrong it was he knows that to but he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone believe it or not he only wanted to make them shoot and kill him which didn’t work but he was shot 7 times would of been 8 but the bullet didnt penatrate the skin so obviously it just wasn’t his time to go also he swears he only shot his gun once that the other cops bullet must of caught lane the second time, also has nobody noticed the fact that there’s two different stories as to why the cops were responding that day one days a disturbance at Murphys another says a shoplifting call at Walmart and never mind his clothing wasn’t even the same color as the description of the person they were looking for they day there’s no vendeded but two months before this happened the norton police waited at a motel for hours to catch each and everyone of the people in the room with him even though they had to do it one at a time but even months before that and before his probation violation came out December 2021 the norton cops were kicking in doors looking for him yet he didn’t have a charge until Feb I know for a fact they were looking for him very badly because I ended up getting run through and arrested fir a mistamenor probation violation when they pulled over the cat I was in leaving my house looking for him the norton police continued to interrogate me asking his where abouts until the Duffield van got there to get me yet there was never any charges for him at that time and there wasn’t for two months when he got his probation violation in Feb, as I said I’m not taking up for him what he did was wrong but there’s alot of stuff being overlooked like the fact the first psychiatrist that evaluated him said he needed further evaluation so they fired her and got another one to do a evaluation which said he wasn’t mentally ill that day
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