By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, several streets were closed in downtown Raleigh this afternoon when a woman threatened to jump off of a building. Three downtown street blocks were closed including Salisbury Street, Cabarrus Street and Gale Street. Earlier in the day, Jim…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE - According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department, detectives arrested and charged a Fort Bragg US Army soldier with breaking in to a local gun store and allegedly stealing $68,000 worth of guns early this morning, Monday May 7th. Arrested in the case was William David…
By The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – The Durham Police Department said that it recently arrested several business owners and operators in Durham for allegedly running a retail theft ring where stolen items were taken from local stores and then resold in area establishments at a discount. Other arrests were made for…
By The Raleigh Telegram CARY – According to the Cary Police Department, on Sunday an unidentified man stabbed a female domestic partner and held her hostage inside of an apartment located at 105 Ribbon Lane. The apartment complex is located off of Lochmere Drive off of Cary Parkway in the…
By The Raleigh Telegram GREENVILLE – A third East Carolina University student has now been arrested in just a few days, according to law enforcement officials. According to the US Marshals Service, today, the Joint Fugitive Task Force arrested ECU basketball player Shamarr Bowden, age 22. The student athlete just…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who recently robbed a bank last week. According to spokesman Jim Sughrue of the Raleigh Police Department, a man is his mid-50′s in age walked into a PNC Bank in Raleigh…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a 26 year old man was shot and killed on Tuesday and police have arrested three men as suspects in the case, with one more suspect being sought by detectives. The Raleigh Police Department said that Daniel Lavon…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – Two people close to the investigation into the disappearance of Fort Bragg soldier Kelli Marie Bordeaux have been arrested, but on unrelated charges, adding some strange twists to the missing persons case that has already received international attention. The Fayetteville Police are still looking…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – In Cumberland County, police are looking for a man who broke into a school after hours, took his clothes off, and walked around the school naked. Investigators say the whole incident was caught on surveillance video cameras in the school. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department, three people are dead after a lover’s quarrel turned deadly. The shooting incident took place on Wednesday night at a home on Cedar Creek Road near Fayetteville. According to the police, the two victims of the shooter…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles’ License and Theft Bureau last week announced that they arrested a man who is accused of impersonating a North Carolina DMV inspector. The DMV says that the man is suspected of “charging Hispanic victims thousands of dollars…
By The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – The Durham Police Department says they have made an arrest of two men who police say maliciously tried to kill their robbery victims, including an assault on one victim with a tree stump. “Durham police investigators have arrested two men and charged them with…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The trial of the suspect accused of brutally raping and murdering state school board member Kathy Taft begins today in Raleigh. On trial is Jason Keith Williford, a young musician who is accused of severely beating Taft, age 62, who died from her injuries…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – WRAL-TV, the local CBS television station affiliate in the Triangle, will air a two hour documentary about wrongfully convicted former prisoner Greg Taylor. Entitled “6,149 Days” after the number of days that Taylor spent behind bars, the show will air on Thursday, April 12th…
By Voice Of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – Two high-ranking U.S. military commanders say Mexico’s violent war against drug cartels has moved into other parts of Central America and that Iran is increasingly trying to become involved in the area. Air Force General Douglas Fraser, the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, four suspects were charged last week in the murder of a store clerk that took place in Raleigh in December. Police say that the suspects murdered the store clerk during the hold-up at the M3 tobacco and convenience…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Over five years after the murder took place, Jason Young was found guilty of brutally killing his pregnant wife Michelle Young by a Wake County jury on Monday afternoon at the conclusion of his second murder trial. The first murder trial last year resulted…
By The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – After a week of hearings, Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline was removed from office today by Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood. Judge Hobgood announced his decision this morning after presiding over hearings this week at the Durham courthouse that examined Cline’s recent actions. Cline…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Earlier this year in Raleigh, a young man who had his whole life ahead of him, tried to do the right thing by turning his car around after seeing an accident and stopped to help out some complete strangers. Tragically, this selfless act by Eleazar…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – An incident earlier this year reported by The Fayetteville Observer involving a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant was featured on the comedy news show The Colbert Report last week. The host of the show, Stephen Colbert, picked the incident as his “Righteous Tase Of The…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Garner Police Department, a bank robbery suspect who was arrested and convicted of robbing a Garner bank in 2008 has been arrested for allegedly robbing it a second time. Last Wednesday February 22nd, Garner Police say that Lemar Raymon Dasher was arrested…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the North Carolina Attorney General’s office, identity thieves are now using stolen Social Security numbers to file false tax returns and steal tax returns from unsuspecting taxpayers. At least 15 people have contacted his office to say that they have been victims of this…
By The Raleigh Telegram According to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, a Raleigh man has been charged with selling vehicles with altered odometers out of his home. The NC DMV License and Theft Bureau said that a search warrant was served today at the home of Francis Marimo, who had been…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Federal Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina arrested a Greensboro man and charged him with the robbery of two Triangle SunTrust banks that are located in Kroger stores. The FBI identified the man as John Larry Morrison, age 36, who the FBI says also…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Feberal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a local bank robber who they think is responsible for at least two local robberies in the Triangle area. According to the FBI, the man has “protruding teeth”, a gray beard, and stands between 6’3″ and…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a Raleigh police officer who serves with the Special Operations Division was shot at several times yesterday and is currently in the hospital. Police say that the suspect who shot at him is dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.…
By Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on January 23rd that American police must secure a search warrant before they track criminal suspects with the use of global positioning system technology. The nation’s nine-member highest court unanimously decided that law enforcement…
By Elliott West, The Raleigh Telegram CEDAR GROVE, NC – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced late last week that detectives have made two arrests in a murder and robbery case that left a former sheriff’s deputy and a store owner dead at a rural Orange County store earlier this…
By The Raleigh Telegram CHAPEL HILL – The Chapel Hill Town Council recently voted to apologize to the News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh and one of its reporters who was arrested and detained by Chapel Hill police while covering a story in November. In a resolution introduced by town…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, two men are in jail after a Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy allegedly found 22 pounds of cocaine in their car. Phyllis Stevens of the Wake County Sheriff’s Office said that Elder Camacho and Angel Peralta were…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – On Sunday, Occupy Raleigh protesters staged a march on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh to celebrate their 100th day of organizing protests, but the well-attended march resulted in the arrests of two men after police say they were blocking the streets. According to the…
By The Raleigh Telegram NASHVILLE – According to statements on a radio show on Monday afternoon, US Senator Rand Paul said he was “detained” by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials at the Nashville airport as he was going through the security checkpoints to board an airplane earlier that morning. Senator…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement agents say they have arrested a man and charged him with allegedly supplying the alcohol that possibly led to a deadly crash that killed a Raleigh high school student. Special agents NC ALE said this weekend that they arrested…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is looking for a bank robbery suspect who evidently is a fan of Miller Lite beer. According to the Raleigh Police officials, a local SunTrust Bank was robbed on January 17th at around 4pm. According to police, the suspect seen in…
From The City Of Raleigh, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram On January 3rd, the Raleigh City Council accepted the donation of a seven-year old Painted/Draft horse from Mrs. Martha Burke of Upperville, Va., for the City of Raleigh Police Department’s mounted patrol. The horse’s original name was Parker but the Raleigh Police…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is investigating a home invasion, traffic accident, and subsequent stabbing that took place over the weekend that left one man dead. According to Jim Sughrue of the Raleigh Police Department, just before 5am on Sunday, a home invasion robbery took…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Students, family, and friends are mourning the loss of 17 year old student Elizabeth Molloy of Raleigh. Molloy, who lived on Ceremonial Court, was a popular student at Millbrook High School in Raleigh. According to police, another student has been arrested on multiple charges…
By The Raleigh Telegram FAYETTEVILLE – Adding new meaning to the term “man’s best friend,” according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, a man has been arrested and charged with allegedly having sex with his neighbor’s dog. In a statement from Sheriff Earl “Moose” Butler, detectives have charged a Cumberland County…
RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department is looking for a burgundy Ford Windstar that they say was used in a burglary where a Raleigh resident was shot at by one of the suspects. According to the Raleigh Police Department, at around 12:30am on December 29th, a resident in the 3000 block…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Raleigh Police Department has made an arrest in a fatal hit and run case that left Mellissa Sue Johnson, age 32, of Summit Avenue in Raleigh dead. According to the Raleigh Police Department, the accident occurred on January 1st at approximately 7:15 p.m.…
