A North Carolina elected official was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly lacing his two granddaughters’ ice cream with drugs. On August 8, James Yokeley, 66, reportedly flagged down Wilmington police at a Sheetz gas station and claimed his granddaughters found two pills in a Blizzard they purchased from a nearby Dairy Queen. However, police said …
A man accused of taking a missing Iowa teen to North Carolina last weekend now faces charges in two states. John Johnson, 25, was initially arrested in Reidsville, North Carolina, after authorities found the missing 15-year-old girl there, WHO reported. She was reunited with her family and Johnson was charged with sexual exploitation of a …
A North Carolina man kicked out of a Charlotte bar for fighting with another patron came back 30 minutes later with a machete and brass knuckles and attacked the patron. “Remember me?” Matthew King, 39, asked his victim when he returned at about 2 a.m. Saturday, approaching the victim from behind and trying to hit …
A 15-year-old North Carolina boy is facing criminal charges for allegedly fatally shooting his aunt, uncle, and grandmother on Tuesday. A 10-year-old in Trotter’s Ridge reportedly called 911, leading police to the bodies of Danny Richards and Sabrina Richards, 57 and 54. The man’s mother, Clara Richards, 74, who was also found wounded at the …
A North Carolina boat owner and her drunk boyfriend were indicted this week on charges related to a boat crash in Chatham County earlier this month that killed a 10-year-old girl and seriously injured her friend’s mother. Quinten Kight, 40, and Annemarie Flanigan, 56, have been charged with second degree murder and other charges in …
A North Carolina man already charged with kidnapping has now been charged with additional counts — including rape — in a neighboring county. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office charged Winston Aaron Eccleston, 26, with kidnapping in May after a woman who had been missing since January turned up and told a harrowing tale. An arrest …
A North Carolina man has been charged with first degree murder after he beat his roommate to death for asking him for a cigarette. William Francis Bordsen, 40, called 911 shortly before 11 a.m. on Sunday and said he’d been in a fight with his roommate, identified as 65-year-old Robert Murphy, and that he “kicked …
A North Carolina police officer was indicted this week on a second degree murder charge for an on-duty shooting that took place late last month. The state Bureau of Investigation said it had been asked to investigate the June 26 shooting by the Newton Police Department. Carlos Alverto Uribe, a Newton police lieutenant, appeared in …
A 30-year-old North Carolina man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, who died Sunday after being hospitalized early Friday with severe head trauma and bruising all over his body. The Raleigh News & Observer said that Lance Nolan Pearce was initially charged with intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, …
A North Carolina man faces multiple charges after police say he deliberately caused a head-on crash in an attempt to kill his wife. Anderson Singleton’s wife and two people in the car he hit suffered serious injuries in the crash just before 6 a.m. on Saturday in Raleigh. The crash was caught on a witness’s …
A 22-year-old North Carolina man was arrested Friday after doctors found his 4-week-old son with multiple broken bones. Kobie Parker is charged with two counts of intentional child abuse with serious bodily injury, WITN reported. According to an arrest warrant, the infant suffered 10 broken ribs, broken tibias in both legs, and a broken fibula …
Months after Michelle Hurd was found stabbed to death in her North Carolina townhome, a former high school classmate has been charged with her murder. Police had investigated Brandon Braxton, 33, after Hurd’s death last July, but he was never charged in the case, even though his fingerprints were found in her vehicle — which …
