A man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for a bizarre murder-for-hire plot that involved hiring a hitman and purchasing radioactive substance to poison food.
Javier Rubio Chavez, 27, is wanted for four counts of indecent liberties with a child, statutory rape, statutory sex offense on a child and damage to and interfering with an electronic monitoring device.
Vurnel Smith Jr will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty Thursday to the brutal murders of his wife’s parents.
Detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are trying to identify the suspect in multiple armed robberies at 7-Eleven stores in Charlotte.
Two people are being sought after one of the owners of Charlotte-staple Brooks’ Sandwich House was shot and killed in what police say appears to be an attempted robbery.
The arrest report says the suspect admitted to hitting the victim in the head with a cup, then holding her down on the floor and hitting her several times in the head with a frying pan.
For weeks, we have been digging into facts, police numbers, motives, locations of homicides, ages of those doing the killings and those killed. We’ve talked with moms who lost their children, dads who’ve lost their children, homicide detectives, assistant district attorneys, and city leaders.
Dontray Cumberlander and Greydon Hanson are both charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted. The two are accused of killing three people in the parking lot of a Hickory pub in the spring of 2017.
The incident began on Highway 73 around 1:45 a.m., when a deputy got behind a white Ford Explorer allegedly driven by 21-year-old Jhamari Keishon Sowell, of Stanley.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney announced Friday that the department would be ending the electronic GPS monitoring system for homicide suspects.
Court records show police have been staking out an intersection in West Charlotte where they say a shopping center on West Boulevard nearby Remount is an “open air drug market.” After several shootings and even a homicide, businesses in the area are fearful of the continued violence.
Police have dismissed charges against a man who was initially accused in a shooting that killed a 71-year-old woman and left her 72-year-old husband injured.
The female, only known as Jane Doe 37, may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation.
New video has been released weeks after a mother was charged in her 3-year-old son’s death after he fell from an escalator at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in September.
Detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are trying to identify a man accused of stealing a firearm from a security guard in a southwest Charlotte arcade.
Ariane McCree’s parents were among a crowd of 50 outside the police department. The family wants a better explanation of what unfolded that day. Michael McCree, Ariane’s father, says he wants answers.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, officers responded to Pierson Drive around 5 p.m. in reference to an assault with deadly weapon with injury call.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the incident happened in the parking lot of a BP gas station on E. WT. Harris Boulevard around 10:45 p.m.
According to CMPD’s third quarter crime report released in September larcenies from cars are up by five percent over last year and larcenies overall are up 4.3 percent.
A man noticed on his security camera footage that at 1:30 a.m. Monday, a man was on his back patio, looking into windows as he and his wife slept inside.
Thousands of shoppers will head to the malls on Thursday night. But it’s not just shoppers you’ll see if you’re going, police officers will be there in full force.
Eight people have been arrested, $6,000 worth of illegal drugs and seven firearms have been seized during a three-day saturation of November 22nd through November 24th.
Detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are trying to identify the man who robbed a convenience store in north Charlotte at gunpoint.
The man killed has been identified by police as 19-year-old Nathaniel Lee Isenhour. Officials say he is the son of a deputy with the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office.
The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte announced Tuesday that additional allegations of sexual misconduct have been found “credible” against former chancellor Monsignor Mauricio West.
Judge Elizabeth Trosch says she’s seen more cases involving a teenager and a gun this year than in all of her past 10 years on the bench. But she says just because it feels like there’s more crime, judges cannot punish someone until they get a conviction. She says judges have to set conditions of re
