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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 13:51 |
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Asheville police probing abduction, sexual assault
The Asheville Police Department is investigating an abduction and rape that occurred early last Thursday.
Police were notified by Mission Hospitals personnel that a woman had entered the Emergency Department and reported she that had been abducted and sexually assaulted.
The woman said she was abducted at knifepoint from a parking lot near the YMCA on Town Square Boulevard in Biltmore Park about 5:30 a.m. and forced to drive her car to a remote location, where she was raped. Her abductor left her there and she was able to drive herself to the hospital.
According
to police, the woman did not know her attacker. Sgt. Scott Lunsford of
the Asheville Police Depatment noted that while such rapes are rare in
Asheville, they are not unheard of.
The
assailant is described as a white male, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-6 tall,
wearing a green T-shirt. Police have provided a composite sketch of the
suspect. No vehicle description immediately was available.
According
to YMCA of Western North Carolina Vice President John Mikos, police
have increased patrols in the Biltomore Park area during the night and
early morning.
Police
are asking anyone who may have been in or around that parking lot at
that time, and who saw anything suspicious or anything they think may
be of value in this investigation to contact the Criminal Investigation
Division at 259-5910.
Asheville restaurant owner charged with embezzlement
RALEIGH
?? An Asheville business owner was arrested on May 24 and charged with
embezzling taxes on employee??s wages for more than 10 years.
Sandra Jones Waldrop, 44, oversees the operations of Huntly
Enterprises, according to officials. The company runs two Asheville
restaurants, the Grovewood Cafe in Asheville and Hunter??s Lodge on
Weaverville Highway.
Authorities charge that the company embezzled $131,383 in state income
taxes from employees between May 1, 1994 and Sept. 15, 2005.
Waldrop, scheduled to appear in court May 30 in Raleigh, was being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
Pisgah Forest man charged with kidnapping, sex crimes
A Pisgah Forest man was arrested and charged with fist-degree sexual offense and second-degree kidnapping on May 28.
Police charged Gary Paul Whitney, 34, with the offenses, which involved
a teenage male ?®under 13, 14 or 15,?∆ according to the arrest warrent.
Whitey was being held in the Buncombe County Detention Facility in lieu of a $150,000 bond.
According to police, Whitney ?®confined, restrained, terrorized and removed the boy from one place to another.?∆
Death of Ingles truck driver most likely caused by sleep
Just two weeks away from retiring, Ingles truck driver Richard Fox fell
asleep at the wheel and his rig veered off the road into a ravine,
leading to a deadly ending.
That is the conclusion of an autopsy conducted last week on the body of
Fox, 67, who was missing for five days prior to being discovered in
Putnam County, Ga.
Fox was driving his truck from Ingles?? U.S. 70 warehouse to Gray, Ga. on May 22, when the fatal accident occurred.
According to coroner Gary McElhenney, Fox had no signs of health problems that might have contributed to the accident.
Fatigue is a contibuting factor in 13 percent of all auto deaths
involving a truck, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration.
A funeral service was planned for Fox last Friday at Lake Julian.
Woodfin resident charged with shooting his neighbor
WOODFIN ?? A Woodfin man was charged with attempted murder last Friday
after a shooting incident that took place on Jonestown Road.
Henry Sharpe, 56, was arrested for allegedly shooting Jimmy Mills Jr., 30, around 7:50 p.m. last Thursday.
Sharpe was being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
Mills was in serious condition at Mission Hospitals, according to police.
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