Most Wanted NC News

Kerr Lake Virginia Murder

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:00 GMT

VA CRIME NEWS -- Virginia's Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office is seeking the identity of an unknown white male corpse discovered floating in Kerr Lake near Crescent Lane, Clarksville, Virginia on Saturday, November 21, 2009. Kerr Lake borders North Carolina, therefore, the deceased may be a North Carolina resident...

Safe Streets Task Force Arrests Two Violent Fugitives

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:01:00 GMT

NC CRIME NEWS -- The FBI's Safe Streets Task Force coordinated two federally wanted fugitives' arrests within hours of receiving information of their location in Charlotte, NC. Both fugitives were wanted for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, and one was wanted in California for sex crimes with a child...

Dial-a-Dealer Bust in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:01:00 GMT

NC CRIME NEWS -- Five busted for their involvement in a Dial-a-Dealer drug trafficking operation conducted in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties. junkies could call a telephone number and have their drugs delivered...

Terrorist Conspiracy in North Carolina

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:01:00 GMT

NC CRIME NEWS -- Seven individuals living in North Carolina have been arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad...

Federal Indictment NC - Certified Estate Planners

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:01:00 GMT

NC NEWS -- An Indictment that was returned and filed under seal by a federal grand jury in Asheville, North Carolina on June 3, 2009, was opened yesterday alleging from around January 2003 until about July 2006, in Henderson County, NC, Bryan Noel of Hendersonville among others solicited more than 100 clients to invest large sums of retirement savings with Certified Estate Planners, Inc. The alleged investment scheme resulted in losses of approximately $7 million...

NC Legislature Must Not Interfere With Resumption of Death Penalty

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:01:00 GMT

NC NEWS -- Long-awaited North Carolina Court decision should allow the resumption of the death penalty. The Court ruled Friday that the N.C. Medical Board cannot prevent doctors from participating in executions. This legal challenge by the Board has resulted in a de facto moratorium on executions since August 2006...

Former Brunswick County Sheriff Gets 16 Months in the Can!

editor@357news.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:01:00 GMT

BRUNSWICK COUNTY NC NEWS -- Former Movie Star Sheriff, Ronald E. Hewett, 45, was sentenced in federal court to 16 months imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release as well as a $10,000 fine. Hewett pleaded guilty on June 2, 2008, to endeavoring to obstruct justice, specifically, a federal grand jury investigation into allegations of corruption of his office as Sheriff of Brunswick County, North Carolina...

Bryant Double Homicide Remains a Mystery

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:01:00 GMT

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY NC NEWS -- John Davis Bryant and his wife, Irene went hiking in the Pisgah National Forest. What started as a search for a missing elderly couple, turned into a gruesome double homicide...

Safe Streets Task Force to Combat Gang Activity in NC Triad

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:00 GMT

TRIAD NC NEWS -- New Safe Streets Task Force will combat the growing problem of Street gangs threatening the safety of Alamance, Guilford and Rockingham counties' neighborhoods and communities...

Laurean Wanted for Lauterbach Murder Captured

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:01:00 GMT

ONSLOW COUNTY NC NEWS -- Captured! Former Corporal Cesar Armando Laurean, USMC, in Mexico. Laurean is a suspect in the ongoing investigation into the murder of 20-year-old Maria F. Lauterbach, who was seven months pregnant at the time of her murder...

Former Washington NC Cop Gets 21 Months

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT

BEAUFORT COUNTY NC NEWS -- A former officer of the Washington, North Carolina Police Department, Steven Ray Hilsinger, was sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment for four federal civil rights violations in federal court in Raleigh this week...

Two More Robeson County Sheriff's Deputies Sentenced - Operation Tarnish Badge

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT

ROBESON COUNTY NC NEWS -- United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle this week sentenced two more former Robeson County Sheriff's Deputies for their involvement in the Robeson County Sheriff's Department public corruption scandal uncovered by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Operation (OCDETF) entitled Operation Tarnish Badge...

Serial Bank Robbers Wanted in Charlotte - Mecklenburg County Area

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Once again the FBI Charlotte Safe Streets Task Force is asking for your help in tracking down three serial bank robbers who have robbed banks in the City of Charlotte area of Mecklenburg County, Cabarrus County and Union County...

FBI Assistant Director Miller Blasts Rolling Stone Magazine Story

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:01:00 GMT

COUNTY NC NEWS -- FBI Assistant Director John J. Miller blasts Rolling Stone Magazine Story, "The Fear Factory" written by Guy Lawson. Assistant Director Miller exposes the how Lawson interjects hypothetical theory, one-sided reporting and lack of objectiveness into his article. Furthermore, Assistant Director John J. Miller once again restores the dignity and honor of the men and women who diligently work within the FBI...

Reputed Hidden Valley Kings Leader Captured

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- The reputed head of a North Charlotte drug distribution organization (Hidden Valley Kings) was captured yesterday morning in New York...

Inmate Stabbed to Death in Prison

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:01:00 GMT

SCOTLAND COUNTY NC NEWS -- Scotland County Sheriff's Department and the SBI's investigation into the stabbing death of an inmate, Gary N. Bell, at Scotland Correctional Institution has resulted in inmate Edward Wiley being charged with murder...

Man Found Guilty for Sex Trafficking and Forcing NC Teenager into Prositution

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT

GUILFORD COUNTY NC NEWS -- Evidence presented at trial showed Levar Simms picked the girl up outside the Act Together Youth Facility, a shelter for juveniles in Greensboro, North Carolina. Then took the teenager to a house in Greensboro where he locked her in a room until she agreed to prostitute...

North Carolinian Gets 110 Years

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:01:00 GMT

COUNTY NC NEWS -- As part of a prosecution initiative that was begun by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a U.S. District Judge sentenced a North Carolina man to 110 years' imprisonment for several counts of child pornography...

PA Man Convicted for Attempting to provide Material Support to Al-Qaeda

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:01:00 GMT

NATIONAL NEWS -- Michael Curtis Reynolds, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to a 30-year prison term for attempting to provide material support to Al-Qaeda in the U.S...

WalMart Superstore Explosion Potential Witnesses

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

JACKSON COUNTY NC NEWS -- Law enforcement agencies are requesting the public's assistance in identifying and located the individuals in the featured photographs. The individuals are considered potential witnesses in the investigation into a Wal-Mart Superstore explosion...

Anthony Ray Artrip Captured!

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:01:00 GMT

BUNCOMBE COUNTY NC NEWS -- Anthony Ray Artrip has been captured in Pennsylvania. Artrip was wanted by both the FBI and the U.S. Marshals for bank robbery and escaping from a Detention Center...

Masked Armed Bank Robbery in Charlotte

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Charlotte continues to be plagued with Bank robberies. On Wednesday, an armed bank robbery took place at the Wachovia Bank located at 9005 Albemarle Road, Charlotte, North Carolina...

Clean-Cut Bandit Robs Coastal Federal Credit Union

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Well, Charlotte's starting the month out all wrong. FBI Safe Streets Task force is seeking an individual responsible for Monday's robbery of the Coastal Federal Credit Union in Charlotte, North Carolina...

Bank Robberies of Charlotte 2007

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- FBI Charlotte has requested the public's assistance in identifying the individuals responsible for twenty-eight bank robberies in the Charlotte metropolitan and its surrounding counties this year...

Hoax Distress Calls Costing Taxpayers

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:01:00 GMT

ONSLOW COUNTY NC NEWS -- U.S. Coast Guard is asking for the public's assistance in identifying hoax callers of false distress calls in North Carolina. Also offering a reward for information...

Truliant Federal Credit Union Robbed Again

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Truliant Federal Credit Union has been robbed again. This is the second robbery in less than one month for the Charlotte bank...

ICE and DEA Bust U.S.-Mexican Tunnel

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:01:00 GMT

WASHINGTON DC NEWS -- In Nogales, Arizona, agents from the DEA and ICE executed a search warrant at a house used to conceal the U.S. entrance to a recently constructed tunnel...

Cornelius Postmaster Arrested in Murder-for-hire Scheme

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- The postmaster for the U.S. Postal Service at Cornelius, North Carolina, was arrested for for attempting to orchestrate a murder-for-hire scheme...

Buckteeth Bandit Robs First Citizens Bank

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Well that does it, now, Charlotte has its very own Buckteeth Bandit! The FBI is seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating this bank robber with Buckteeth responsible for the recent robbery of the First Citizens Bank...

Three More Charlotte Banks Robbed

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Bank robberies continue in Charlotte, North Carolina. This time, two armed bank robbery took place at the Wachovia Bank branch located at 801 Kenilworth Avenue and the Wachovia Bank located at 4501 Park Road...

David Lamar Caldwell BUSTED!

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Fugitive David Lamar Caldwell, was apprehended without incident at a residence on Camp Greene Street, Charlotte by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force...

Two more Bank Robberies in Charlotte

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Two more Banks robbed in Charlotte, a lone male robbed a branch of RBC Centura Bank. Then later that morning a SunTrust Bank was robbed by a group of three armed gunmen...

Smuggling Attempts Foiled

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:01:00 GMT

WAKE COUNTY NC NEWS -- North Carolina man arrested in drug smuggling attempt. Elsewhere smugglers were caught using a semi-submersible boat...

Wachovia Bank Robbed in Belmont

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:01:00 GMT

GASTON COUNTY NC NEWS -- Another Wachovia Bank was robbed, this time in Belmont, North Carolina approximately 13 miles west of downtown Charlotte... During the course of the robbery, one of the bank robbers struck a bank employee...

Highway Patrol Crackdown on Truckers avoiding Weigh Station I-40

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:01:00 GMT

ORANGE COUNTY NC NEWS -- The Highway Patrol will be cracking down on truckers avoiding the Hillsborough Weigh Station on I-40. The crackdown will be conducted at the weigh station and on secondary roadways...

Wachovia Bank in Charlotte Robbed

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- A Wachovia Bank in Charlotte was robbed by a lone gunman. The gunman, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, entered the bank and ordering the customers and employees to lie on the bank floor...

American Express Bank International enters Deferred Prosecution Agreement

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:01:00 GMT

GUILFORD COUNTY NC NEWS -- The Miami-based American Express Bank International agreed to enter into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program. The company will forfeit $55 million to the U.S. government...

CBM Environmental Services Ordered to Pay for Conspiring to Rig Bids

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:01:00 GMT

WAKE COUNTY NC NEWS -- North Carolina Business Court Judge Ben F. Tennille, has issued an order for CBM Environmental Services and its CEO to pay the State $350,434 for conspiring to rig bids on state contracts...

Pharmacy Owner Charged with Conducting an Unlawful Prescription Drug Operation

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:01:00 GMT

IREDELL COUNTY NC NEWS -- The owner of Woody Pharmacy in Mooresville and Denver, North Carolina has been charged in 102-Count Federal Indictment for his alleged participation in conducting an unlawful prescription drug operation...

Two Hickory Companies Accused of Misleading Consumers

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:01:00 GMT

CATAWBA COUNTY NC NEWS -- Judge Donald Stephens granted Attorney General's request for a temporary restraining order to stop two Hickory companies, Grant Writing Plus Inc. and Accucredit Inc. from performing grant writing and credit repair services...

Highway Patrol Finishes Conducting First Operation Road Watch

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- The Highway Patrol finished conducting its first Operation Road Watch to crackdown on motor carrier safety violations on North Carolina highways this week...

Arson in Warren County

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:01:00 GMT

WARREN COUNTY NC NEWS -- SBI has determined that two fires were deliberately set at 105 Levi Road, Norlina, NC...

Six Stores in North Carolina Fined for Excessive Price-scanning Errors

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:01:00 GMT

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- Recently six stores in North Carolina were assessed civil penalties for excessive price-scanning errors. All of the six stores are chain stores with three located in the Charlotte area...

Salazar-Espinosa Drug Kingpin Convicted On Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering

editor@countyncnews.com (Rob Cross) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:01:00 GMT

NEW YORK, NY NEWS -- Manuel Felipe Salazar-Espinosa, alias "Hoover," designated by the United States Justice Department as one of the world's most significant drug kingpins has been convicted by a Manhattan jury on cocaine importation and money laundering charges...