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Two Separate Events Kept Police Busy


Posted on Oct 14, 2008

Waynesboro Police were busy on Sunday afternoon after a man defended himself with a machete at his home and a separate event put a detective in the hospital. 

Multiple subjects were retained after a residential fight near W. Main Street and Poplar Avenue.  Within an hour, police were called to help subdue a man who knocked a detective’s head into a wall after being confronted for theft at Wal-Mart in Waynesboro.

The first incident started when a police officer who was on patrol, witnessed a fight at an apartment near Family Dollar at approximately 3:26 PM Sunday.  The police officer, Sgt. Kelly Walker, was walking up the alley-like driveway to investigate when he narrowly avoided a car that came straight at him.  Additional police officers arrived on the scene and pursued the vehicle and later detained a man at McDonald’s on West Main and a second man near Park Road.

Christopher Ray McDaniel, a 38-year old man, was arrested by police for felony attempted assault on an officer and felony reckless driving as a habitual offender, according to Walker.

The fight followed a domestic dispute in which Ray McDaniel and his brother John “Tim” McDaniel came to the home after a threatening phone call, according to John McDaniel’s ex-wife.  Her current husband, Daniel Simmons, fought the brothers and grabbed a hiking machete from the back porch.  However, the brothers were not deterred.

John McDaniel received a deep cut from the machete and was later treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville for non-life-threatening injuries.

Simmons will most likely not be charged for the defensive use of the machete, but other charges are possible. 

Christopher McDaniel pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine while an inmate and driving with a revoked license in 1998.  He was also found guilty of unlawful wounding that year, court records indicate.

Before detectives even had a chance to write their reports, they were called to Wal-Mart, where Detective John Webb struggled with a 33-year old Waynesboro man, Daniel W. Zawharodny.

Zawharodny had attempted to steal a sweatshirt, shorts and a roasted chicken at approximately 4:30 PM.  When he was confronted by employees, the man called for police.  Webb, who works at the store part-time, showed Zawharodny his badge.  Webb took Zawharodny into Wal-Mart’s Loss Prevention Office where the two struggled.  Zawharodny hit Webb’s head against the wall.  Police were able to subdue Zawharodny after they warned him a Taser would be used.

Webb was later treated at Augusta Medical Center.  Zawharodny faces charges of larceny and felony assault on an officer.  Court records show that he was previously convicted of grand larceny in June 2007.

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