A State Trooper is being credited with arresting a murder suspect wanted in the death of a Durham Store Clerk on April 27, 2016.
As North Carolinians begin making summer plans, Governor Pat McCrory has declared May 15-21 as Hurricane Preparedness Week to remind residents to update their emergency plans and supply kits. Hurricane season officially begins June 1 and runs through November.
State, federal and local law enforcement and public safety agencies joined forces Thursday in Carteret County for Operation Arrow, seeking wanted fugitives and absconders from probation or parole and conducting searches to ensure compliance of high risk offenders on supervision.
Prom night can give teens an expectation of a glamorous night out with their school chums. For several hundred Cape Fear High School seniors, their Thursday afternoon arrived with a sobering pre-prom safety message thanks to Trooper Deric Reed of Troop B, Fayetteville.
Inmate Steven Haas #0519426 was found unresponsive in his Central Prison cell just before midnight, after an apparent suicide. He was declared dead at Central Prison’s medical center a short time later.
Correctional Officers from Bertie Correctional Institution pulled an American Eagle jet 25 feet in 7.85 seconds, making them the grand champions of the annual fundraising plane pull for Special Olympics at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
UPDATE: 5/1/2016 5:06 p.m.
The State Prison Emergency Response Team has captured escapee William Bailey. He was caught in Winston-Salem without incident around 4:00 p.m. with the assistance of local law enforcement. Bailey now faces escape charges.
Inmate Lori Pote #1459850 was reportedly found ill in her bed at approximately 2:30 this morning at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Pote was transported to a local hospital where she was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.
The State Highway Patrol is investigating a two vehicle collision on I-95 north in Johnston County near the I-40 interchange that resulted in one fatality