Charlottesville businessman threatened with jail over Madison County Zoning violation

Eight of 50 Saab vehicles on a Jacks Shop Road property in Rochelle. The property’s and car’s owner, Ton Dinh, was threated by a judge with jail if he didn’t get his act together and remove them from Madison County during a hearing Thursday in the county’s circuit court. PJR photo courtesy MCP&Z.

A retired judge from Virginia Beach was ready to throw the book and incarceration on a Charlottesville businessman Thursday in Madison County Circuit Court.

Judge Designate H. Thomas Padrick sternly looked down on defendant Ton Dinh, who owns a 5.9-acre property on Jacks Shop Road in Rochelle. Dinh has a Saab repair shop in Charlottesville and has used his Madison property as an illegal storage facility since 2023…

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