The suspect, a 14-year-old, is facing 20 counts of damage to personal property and 20 counts of discharging a barreled weapon into an occupied vehicle, officials said Friday afternoon.
A woman who spent 30 years in prison for the deaths of residents at a Michigan nursing home has been released on parole, and she’s allegedly moving to Fort Mill, S.C.
During the search, officials say they found 21 marijuana plants growing in a camper, 84 grams of marijuana individually packaged, 44 grams of methamphetamine, 3 handguns, 2 rifles, a tactical shotgun and an assault rifle.
Charlotte staple Brooks’ Sandwich House will reopen February 1, 2020 following the fatal shooting of the restaurant’s co-owner, 61-year-old Scott Brooks.
Arthur Tyrone Mitchell, 22, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, robbery with a dangerous weapon and second-degree burglary.
The New Orleans Police Department said it has obtained an arrest warrant for simple battery after Odell Beckham Jr. was seen in a video making contact with a security guard.
Detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are trying to identify two men who stole jewelry from the Compare Foods supermarket in northeast Charlotte
A man with four driving under the influence convictions within the past 10 years was charged with his fifth DUI on Tuesday night after a crash in West Ashley.
A body found in the Catawba River off the Interstate 85 bridge near the Mecklenburg/Gaston County line last week has been identified by police as 56-year-old Eric Byers, who was reported missing on January 4.
A pregnant teenager was beaten and robbed in the University City area over the weekend at the intersection of North Tryon and Stetson Drive near the University City Boulevard light rail station. Thankfully the 19-year-old is okay and the baby is healthy as well. Police are still looking for the fou
An inmate at the Mecklenburg County Jail collapsed from a drug overdose and spent nearly seven minutes slumped over on a couch before jail staff checked on him. His mother wants answers as to how her son got drugs inside the jail and why staff didn't act sooner to try and save him.
An employee with the Darlington County School District was arrested for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student, district officials said.
A 911 call was released from one of the bank robberies connected to the FBI search for the ‘Bad Wig Bandit’ who is suspected to have robbed three banks in North Carolina in the past three weeks.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say officer Emily Bishop was off duty and with her husband when “multiple suspects” attempted to rob her husband at gunpoint in the Waterford Square Apartments parking lot on Waterford Tide Loop, just off Pineville-Matthews Road.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police reflected on the crime in 2019 Friday morning, while also recognizing officers who worked to break “the cycle of violence.” CMPD covered 107 homicides last year, and violent crime has only increased since 2018.
The former longtime University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill women’s basketball coach was cited with a misdemeanor after she was involved with a fatal pedestrian-involved collision on Monday, Durham police said.
A Wilmington man was arrested in Cape May, New Jersey on several weapon charges after he tried to bring a machine gun and high capacity magazines on to a military base.
Ronnie Long’s five-decade fight to overturn his rape conviction was dealt a significant blow this week when federal judges acknowledged that police corrupted the original investigation but refused to reopen the Concord man’s case.
We’re calling it the case of the cut and run – when someone is let out of jail but told to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet, but then they cut it off. Suddenly, they’re free and clear. When you start to look at the people accused of doing this, you find many are repeat offenders.
One arrest was made during the demonstration, as a 22-year-old was arrested without incident for violation of the city’s noise ordinance (city code 15-61(b).
The FBI says the same suspect is believed to have robbed all three banks in the Charlotte-Metro area in the last three weeks. In each robbery, the suspect wore a different wig.
Nine months after the death of Kendal Crank, one of the people charged with her murder was back in court. Tychicus Dobie was in court requesting his bond be reduced. The judge denied this request.
A U.S. attorney announced Thursday that 37-year-old Luis Pineda-Anchecta, a Honduran national who was the center of a conflict between ICE and Mecklenburg County’s sheriff, has been charged with kidnapping via a federal criminal complaint filed in federal court in Charlotte.
Flanked by armed Rock Hill police officers, the 36-year old stood before a judge for his first bond hearing Thursday afternoon after being extradited from Florida.
Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spent Tuesday afternoon canvassing the Pawtuckett community in west Charlotte. The neighborhood has had an uptick in home burglaries over the past few months, according to police.
Officials determined that someone set multiple fires inside the house, which had been vacant for the last four years and was a common area for homeless individuals to be found sleeping and taking shelter from the weather.
A white nationalist who ran for the U.S. Senate in Florida and was a featured speaker during the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
A Charlotte funeral home director found herself with a close connection to a recent violent crime, since a person who was shot and injured was her son.
Deputies searched the vehicle after finding several syringes, according to a sheriff’s office incident report. Inside a metal container in the center console, deputies found 23 grams of powder, the report stated.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police released surveillance video and photos of one of the suspects wanted in the shooting death of popular NoDa restaurant owner Scott Brooks.
A man shot and killed in north Charlotte early Wednesday morning, marking Charlotte’s first homicide of 2020, has been identified by police as 43-year-old Devonne Lamonte Smith.
The warrant from the Chester County Sheriff’s Office states that 28-year-old Amanda Watkins was charged with unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person.
Community leaders are asking what’s next after city council heard a presentation last night on violent crime. The presentation highlighted important data the city hopes they can use to reduce crime in Charlotte and make educated decisions on how to tackle what they’re calling a public health issue.
