Here’s the site of Saturday’s alleged crime in Asheboro (Courtesy of Asheboro Police Department) ASHEBORO — A teenager has been charged with first-degree murder of a woman in Asheboro. Nikkese Tyshawn Matthews, 19, of Baltimore is in custody following the death of Mary Smith. Smith, 31, was found dead inside an apartment at 156 […]
Several Randolph County residents face charges as part of wide-sweeping law enforcement effort that resulted in nearly two dozen arrests on sex-crime related charges. The multi-jurisdiction Invictus Task Force worked as part of a 12-day sting operation in October. Charges were announced in mid-November. The operation involved identifying child predators and individuals who’ve shared child […]
ASHEBORO — Charges have been filed and a grand jury returned an indictment in the case of a shooting death in an Asheboro parking lot. Branson Russell has been charged with second-degree murder stemming from the Aug. 30 incident. Alexander Benitez-Hernandez, 23, died from a gunshot wound to the back, Asheboro police said. Police issued […]
ASHEBORO — A 23-year-old man died at the scene of an Asheboro shooting during the weekend. Alexander Benitez-Hernandez suffered from a gunshot wound to the upper-chest area, according to a police report. Asheboro Police officers arriving offered aid until medical personnel arrived, but Benitez-Hernandez didn’t survive. Shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday, police responded to shots fired […]
ASHEBORO – Charges have been filed against three men in connection with a with a November homicide in the city. Nearly six months to the day following the shooting death of David Matthew Davis, arrests were made as part of a murder investigation. Police had said that Davis’ death stemmed from an armed robbery of […]
ASHEBORO — A Providence Grove student died in an Easter Sunday traffic accident and a driver of one of the vehicles involved faces charges. Michael Bautista-Chauiz, 16, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a passenger in the back seat. Suzanne Lewis, 43, was charged with felony death by motor vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, driving […]
Utopia on North Park Street in Asheboro is one of the establishments included in the police department’s investigation. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record) ASHEBORO — A crackdown on illegal gambling rooms in Asheboro has resulted in five arrests after an extended operation. The Asheboro Police Department executed search warrants on four locations. The targeted establishments were Oklahoma […]
TRINITY — The head of the Randolph County School system has vowed that the district will be more attentive to safety issues and he said broken hinges on a door that contributed to an intruder entering a school last week have been repaired. Superintendent Stephen Gainey addressed the incident at Hopewell Elementary School in a […]
WINSTON-SALEM — An Asheboro man was sentenced last week to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to a firearm charge. Musin Shaborr Roberts, 22, was sentenced to 108 months in prison plus three years supervised probation based on information from Randall Galyon, acting U.S. attorney of the Middle District of North Carolina. According to […]
RALEIGH — A North Carolina appeals court has said for a second time that a woman convicted of killing her lover should receive a new trial, declaring that text messages and photos from her cellphone wrongly presented to the jury likely prevented her acquittal on self-defense grounds. A divided three-judge panel of the intermediate-level Court […]
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