By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A CBS News investigative journalist is saying that both her work and home computers have been “compromised” and are “under investigation,” possibly by officials within the Obama administration. Sharyl Attkisson, who has won Emmy awards for her investigative reporting in the news division of…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Some parents have complained that a police presence was not necessary when water balloons were thrown by students as part of an end of school prank last week. The prank resulted in seven students and one parent being arrested at Enloe High School in…
By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – In a recently released report, an Obama administration official is recommending that the blood alcohol limit for criminal charges to be filed in Driving Under the Influence (DUI) cases should be lowered by almost half. National Traffic Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman recommends…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, an eight year old girl reported her own mother’s murder this afternoon after leaving the apartment to tell someone about her mohter. The Raleigh Police Department said that at 7:30am this morning, they received a call to the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department says that a man was arresting after robbing a local bank and then trying to make a getaway in a taxicab. According to the Raleigh Police Department, just before 2pm today, a man entered the State Employees’ Credit Union located…
By The Raleigh Telegram CHARLOTTE – Before the Democratic National Convention was held in Charlotte last year, the City of Charlotte passed an ordinance that was directed toward protest groups that would give police extra powers to arrest protesters, even if they were not committing acts of violence. Strangely, the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, an unidentified man and a woman were stabbed in Raleigh on Monday. Police spokesman Jim Sughrue said that shortly before 5:30 pm on Monday, Raleigh Police officers responded to the 6600 block of Tealbriar Drive to respond to…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department announced on Tuesday evening that detectives made an arrest in an unsolved homicide that occurred last Halloween. Raleigh Police Department detectives say they have now charged three suspects with murder in connection with the death of Alfonso Rincon, who was…
By The Raleigh Telegram DANVILLE – According to the Danville Police Department in southern Virginia, a famous character known as “Tickle” on the popular “Moonshiners” reality television show on the Discovery Channel has been arrested recently. Police said today that they arrested Steven Ray Tickle, age 35, on charges of…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, two men were robbed at gunpoint at Pullen Park between Western Boulevard and Hillsborough Street late last night, Monday, March 11th. Police said that at least one shot was fired during the incident, which took place around 10pm.…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Raleigh Police Department detectives are still seeking a bank robbery suspect from the holidays who went inside of a downtown bank and walked out with cash. According to police, at around 11:15am on December 3rd of 2012, a man entered the First Citizens Bank…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department said today that detectives have charged a Durham man with robbing a Harris Teeter grocery store in Raleigh earlier this year. According to police, Richard Todd Hawkins, age 50, of Durham was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon in…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – At least two of the five teenagers who are accused of beating a Raleigh homeless man to death and then stuffing his body in a trash can will be tried as adults in regular court a judge decided today at a hearing in Wake…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Justice and the State Bureau of Investigation said in statements to the press that methamphetamine drug lab busts in total numbers were up in 2012. State Bureau of Investigation agents investigated around 460 meth labs in 2012, compared to…
By The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – Three police officers were arrested in Durham after a bizarre incident that city officials say involved a nightclub, a stolen police badge, and people chasing a man down the street. Overall, six people were arrested including the three police officers, said Durham Police Department…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Many North Carolina gun owners and gun enthusiasts are worried that new gun proposals that go far beyond an assault rifle ban would make many of the otherwise law abiding 80 million Americans who are gun owners into criminals if they do not register…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a couple living in a downtown home in the historic Oakwood neighborhood were victims of a home invasion, shooting, and attempted rape early Monday morning. Police say that after the suspects fled, the men were apprehended after a…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office, a student who was home sick from school last month fired his father’s gun at a man armed with a gun who had broken into their family home, scaring him away. Police say the incident took place…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department announced that it recently five local school students in the murder of a homeless man whose body was found in a trash can in the woods after he disappeared. According to Jim Sughrue of the Raleigh Police Department, Regynald Jose…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is looking for a group of men that they say savagely beat and attacked a downtown Raleigh restaurant worker who was trying to keep them from stealing money from a woman’s purse. According to police, the group of assailants were…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to City of Raleigh officials, the Raleigh Police Department is investigating a series of fake parking tickets that were recently put on cars in the Hillsborough Street area in downtown Raleigh. “The bogus notices also include information on the amount of the original…
By The City Of Raleigh, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – On November 6th, the Raleigh City Council accepted the donation of two horses for the City of Raleigh Police Department’s mounted patrol. Ms. Donna Sparkman donated a five-year old, crossbred Percheron and Quarter horse named Prince (aka Zeus),…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – In addition to the manhole covers, fire hydrants, catalytic converters, street signs, and other items being stolen in the cities by metal thieves, rural areas across North Carolina are now being hit as well. The targets? Churches and cemeteries where there are few people…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A disagreement over $300 has resulted in the death of one man and two others being shot including a Raleigh police officer. Several shots were fired during a gun battle outside of a local shopping center where a Raleigh police officer was injured after…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is seeking any help from the public to help solve the October 31st shooting of a Raleigh man who went outside to check on his car late at night. Police say that killed in the shooting was Alfonso Canjay Rincon,…
By The Raleigh Telegram CHARLOTTE – An illegal drag race between two Mitsubishi Eclipse cars ended in tragedy on Saturday, according to the NC Highway Patrol and WCNC-TV in Charlotte. A two year old boy was killed when a car driven by his father collided with another car and then…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, a series of events led to the discovery of an alleged methamphetamine lab in an upscale subdivision where houses run from $400,000 to $500,000. According to Debbie Tanna of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, the police are…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, detectives are looking for a man driving a low-rider Chevrolet Caprice that was used as a get-away car in an attempted robbery of a local McDonald’s. According to police, just before 3am on September 24th, a man approached…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, investigators have made an arrest in the recent murder of a young man. The department has said that the shooting “does not appear to be a random act,” but did not elaborate on a motive. The shooting took…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a bank robbery suspect stole cash from a downtown bank and then jumped into a taxicab to make a daring getaway. The robbery took place at the Mechanics & Farmers Bank at 13 Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a young mother allegedly murdered her two year old son and then tried to kill herself. The woman was identified as 29 year old Michelle Daniel Harpster. Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue said in statements to the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The shooting death of a woman at a store in the upscale Cameron Village shopping center in downtown Raleigh last week has shocked many people in the area. Shooting crimes in the Cameron Village and tony Oberlin Road area are rare and police are…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – At the Raleigh Spy Conference, director for INTERPOL’s Puerto Rico operations Albert Grajales talked about the modern terrorist, including famous villains such as Carlos the Jackal and how terrorism has changed over the years to become a global phenomenon. Since the unique event was…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department announced that they recently arrested two unnamed juveniles in the arrest of a third teenager who was shot earlier this month in Raleigh. On Wednesday, August 15th, the Raleigh Police Department said it sent two officers to respond to a…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department said they have made an arrest in a shooting that left a 43 year old mother dead in Raleigh. Raleigh Police spokesman Jim Sughrue said that Agata Filipska Vellotti, age 43, died from being shot and was pronounced dead at…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Detectives today said today that they arrested a man in the murder of a woman whose body was found floating in a river. The victim was identified as Heather Nicole Smith, age 30, of the 800 block of Flaming Star…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Today City Manager Russell Allen announced that Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan would retire on October 1st of this year. “Chief Dolan’s retirement after five years as police chief caps a law enforcement career spanning 32 years and a tenure that brought progress to…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Despite a recent series of explosions and subsequent arrest of a man accused of making drugs in his apartment, the Raleigh Police Department says that meth labs are not seen in the city like they are in rural areas. “They are pretty rare in…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Spooks, spies, secret agents, experts in espionage, intelligence officers, Cold War historians, and others engaged in the field of spycraft will be coming to Raleigh later this month for the annual Raleigh Spy Convention. Organized by magazine editor Bernie Reeves, the event has drawn…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A recent trip by members of the Raleigh Police Department to Civil War sites in the eastern United States has raised some eyebrows, especially given the final bill to taxpayers. The trip has cost taxpayers $12,755 in total, say a Raleigh Police Department spokesman.…
