A navy officer who was stationed at the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey from 1995 to 2000 is facing bigamy charges in
Virginia for being married to two women at the same time
– one of whom he married at the San Benito County Courthouse
eight years ago.
Hollister – A navy officer who was stationed at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey from 1995 to 2000 is facing bigamy charges in Virginia for being married to two women at the same time – one of whom he married at the San Benito County Courthouse eight years ago.
The woman, Julie Flint, filed a bigamy complaint in May against former Monterey Naval Postgraduate School administrator Charles Edward Hicks with the San Benito County Sheriff’s Department, according to sheriff’s Lt. Pat Turturici.
Flint and Hicks were married in April of 1997 and filed for a confidential marriage license at the San Benito County clerk’s office. Turturici said the couple lived in Hollister for a short time after their wedding.
Neither Hicks or Flint could be reached for comment Friday. Hicks is thought to be living in Eagle Rock, Virginia. Flint lives in Utah.
Turturici said Flint filed a complaint in San Benito County Courthouse by phone after receiving a call from a Virginia woman, who failed to identify herself, that she was also married to Hicks.
“She’s claiming they lived together for a short time and separated but never divorced,” Turturici said. “Then she gets a phone call from this lady in Virginia and that’s how it all started.”
The sheriff’s department forwarded the complaint to the investigating agency in Virginia, where Hicks is being charged with felony bigamy.
Hicks was married to seven women over 40 years, and three of those marriages took place while he was married to someone else, according to the Associated Press.
Hick’s current wife in Virginia, Sandra Hicks, discovered in April after two years of marriage that Hicks was still legally married to Flint, according to the Washington Post. She later tossed him out, and Hicks was arrested on the charge on May 25.
Conviction of bigamy in Virginia carries a two to 10-year prison sentence. Hicks’s next scheduled court date is in September.
