Category: Arrests
Fentanyl Dealer Arrested
On 2/29/24, Detectives with the Tri-City Violent Crime Task Force, were conducting surveillance at the Baymont Inn in Forest City after receiving complaints about drug activity at the hotel. During the investigation Detectives conducted multiple traffic stops and interviews which lead detectives…Read More »
Woman Faces Felony Drug Charges after Home Raid
Detective Richard Pittman with McDowell County Drug Enforcement charged 54-year-old Suzie Michelle Huskins with felonious Possession of a Schedule II Controlled Substance, felonious Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver a Sch II CS, felonious Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell…Read More »
Gastonia Police ordered to release body cam video in homeless vet arrest and the taser death of his service dog
Gastonia Police arrested disabled Army Veteran Joshua Rohrer last year and charged him with panhandling. Officers also tased his service dog during the arrest that resulted in the death of the animal. Rohrer, feeling he had been assaulted, pushed for the release…Read More »
31 Animals Seized; RC Woman Arrested
On February 24th 2022, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and Rutherford County Animal Control executed a search warrant at 158 Paws Ranch Rd in reference to animal cruelty. Results of the search warrant was: 23 horses, 17 goats, and one sheep were…Read More »
TRIAL OF FORMER SHERIFF’S DEPUTY FORECASTS ADDITIONAL MISCONDUCT BY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
On Wednesday March 24, 2021, former Sheriff’s Deputy Jamie Dunn was found guilty of assaulting an individual being held in the Rutherford County Jail. Dunn immediately appealed the verdict and the case will proceed to Superior Court. As RC Catalyst previously reported…Read More »
Sheriff’s employee gets probation for $85,790 embezzlement
RUTHERFORDTON — Former sheriff’s office employee, Lacie Felicia Boykins, 40, of Shelby who embezzled $85,790 from RCSD received no jail time in her plea deal. Boykins had pleaded guilty to five counts of embezzlement of cash proceeds by a public official/trustee on…Read More »
QUESTIONS MOUNT AS TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S TOLERANCE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 9/10/2020 On February 27, 2019, Rutherford County Schools administrators acknowledged that they had become aware of allegations involving sexual assault by Gunnery Sergeant Eric Currington and Officer Chris Brown against multiple underage students in the ROTC program. Currington and Brown…Read More »
RC Deputy Terminated in Assault Incident
Chief Deputy Warren Sprouse fired Deputy Jamie Dunn this week after an incident at the jail. Dunn allegedly hit a handcuffed inmate, arrested in a domestic violence call and known to him from his substitute teacher days, after the inmate called his…Read More »