A local woman is missing two computers and other electronics worth a total of over 4-thousand dollars, following a recent break-in. Frances O’Neill reported last week that while she was attending to her husband, who was hospitalized after a stroke, a person took the electronics from their home. The person the O’Neills accuse of doing this, whose name has not been released, is also accused of taking two-thousand dollars out of their checking account, causing eleven checks to bounce. Mrs. O’Neill says the person she beoieves did this is the only person she knows of that has access to the house. The case remains under investigation.
Daily Archives: April 10, 2007
Juvenile Escapee Leads Deputies on 90-minute Chase
A youngster that had e3scaped form an out-of-county juvenile detention center led local deputies on a foot chase that lasted quite a while. Deputies were called to an address on Dehart Church Road Friday afternoon after a tip that the boy was there. As the first deputy pulled up, the teen ran into the woods.
Two other deputies arrived, and the three began pursuing the boy through the woods, eventually enlisting the help of Wildlife officers in the search, which lasted more than an hour and a half. Once they closed in on him, the boy would not remove his hands from his pockets. It turns out he was concealing a pair of scissors, which he threw onto the ground when he finally gave up. He was detained for Alexander county authorities, who picked him up later in the day.
Two other deputies arrived, and the three began pursuing the boy through the woods, eventually enlisting the help of Wildlife officers in the search, which lasted more than an hour and a half. Once they closed in on him, the boy would not remove his hands from his pockets. It turns out he was concealing a pair of scissors, which he threw onto the ground when he finally gave up. He was detained for Alexander county authorities, who picked him up later in the day.
Woman Uses Child as Drug Hiding Place
There’s no other way to describe what one Millers Creek woman did than to say it’s amazing. And not in a good way.
The woman, who is not identified on a sheriff’s department crime report, was driving recklessly on College Street yesterday afternoon about 1. The deputy says when he pulled her over, the woman was slurring her words, but when asked if she’d had anything to drink or if she’d taken illegal drugs, she said no. She’d gotten out of the car at the request of the deputy, and when he asked if she would allow him to look through the car, she asked if he had a search warrant.
Then — and this is where the amazing part comes in — she crawled back into the Mustang, into the back seat, and began loving on her 6-year old boy. The deputy watched through the window as she tried to stuff a baggie into her son’s front pocket, and when that didn’t work, she put it in his back pocket. At that point, the deputy arrested the woman, as there were also prescription drugs in the car that did not belong to her.
The baggie she’d tried to hide in her son’s pocket turned out to be marijuana, and the deputy found straws and apparent cocaine in the car. He called social services and after they took custody of the boy, he hauled the woman to jail, where she was booked for child abuse and multiple drug possession charges. Her bond was set at 75-hundred dollars.
The woman, who is not identified on a sheriff’s department crime report, was driving recklessly on College Street yesterday afternoon about 1. The deputy says when he pulled her over, the woman was slurring her words, but when asked if she’d had anything to drink or if she’d taken illegal drugs, she said no. She’d gotten out of the car at the request of the deputy, and when he asked if she would allow him to look through the car, she asked if he had a search warrant.
Then — and this is where the amazing part comes in — she crawled back into the Mustang, into the back seat, and began loving on her 6-year old boy. The deputy watched through the window as she tried to stuff a baggie into her son’s front pocket, and when that didn’t work, she put it in his back pocket. At that point, the deputy arrested the woman, as there were also prescription drugs in the car that did not belong to her.
The baggie she’d tried to hide in her son’s pocket turned out to be marijuana, and the deputy found straws and apparent cocaine in the car. He called social services and after they took custody of the boy, he hauled the woman to jail, where she was booked for child abuse and multiple drug possession charges. Her bond was set at 75-hundred dollars.