A Norfolk man, who admitted to leading a crime spree across the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 2023, was convicted Monday in Northampton Circuit Court of attempting to murder Exmore Police Chief Angelo DiMartino, using a gun in the crime, and abducting a Kiptopeke Royal Farms worker.
“I wasn’t arrested,” 33-year-old Brandon Theophilus Gibson, of Lens Avenue, testified. “I was rescued.”
The defendant said that since he was five years old, he had been taking the prescription drug Adderall, a stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. After his doctor retired, he started smoking marijuana and using illicit Adderall, which he said was similar to methamphetamine…