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Woman in critical condition
after high speed car chase
BLACK MOUNTAIN ÇƒÓ A woman remains in critical condition at Mission Hospitals following a car crash while being chased by Black Mountain police last Friday night.
Police were asked to assist the State Highway Patrol, who were trying to stop a black SUV that was reportedly driving recklessly.
The chase ended about 9:30 when the SUV collided with a parked vehicle. Only the driver was injured.
The incident is still under investigation and the identity of the woman has not been released.
Man charged with stealing
8 home-security systems
Asheville police
arrested a man last Saturday on charges that he stole eight home
security systems from the Samës Club on Patton Avenue.
Franklin Delano Orr Jr., 46, of Julian Acres Drive in Leicester is accused of taking $6,952 worth of equipment on Aug. 31.
He was charged with felony larceny and released on a $1,000 bond.
Raucous UNCA dorm party
leads to multiple citations
Several people
were issued state citations for alcohol violations last Friday night
after UNC Asheville campus police arrived at the scene of a loud party
in one of the schoolës dormitory rooms.
Among those
charged were three teenagers cited for possession of alcohol under age
21, including Caitlin Ayleece Young, 19, of 314 Lakemere Dr. in New
Bern; Donald Alexander Standridge, 18, of 515 Welsh Partridge Circle in
Candler; and Bradley Scott Alexander, 18, of 10725 Bunhill Terrace in
Raleigh.
Furthermore,
police issued a state citaiton to Nicholas Daniel Knapp, 21, who lives
at 59 Spring Hollow Lane in Fairview for providing alcohol to underage
persons.
The incident
began about 2 a.m., when officers Brandon Hunnicutt, Shannon Green, and
Sgt. Bruce Martin, arrived at room 305 in the Mills Hall dormitory,
responding to reports of a loud party there.
Green knocked on
the door several times, eventually announcing himself as a campus
police officer before Robert Holston answered, according to police
reports.
Hunnicutt then
observed about six people sitting in the roomës lounge area, as well as
several bottles and cans of malt beverage. Knapp was the only person
who was not under 21, police said.
Young,
Standridge and Alexander all agreed to submit to Alco-sensor tests, and
registered a 0.05 BAC, 0.03 BAC and 0.09 BAC, respectively, officials
noted.
In a separate
incident, UNCA campus police charged Tamsen Meserve Cox, 29, of 260
Montford Ave. last Friday afternoon with driving while her license was
revoked, using a fictictious registration and driving without insurance.
Cox was stopped
by Officer Steve Metcalf, while driving her maroon 1990 Toyota Camry
through the UNCAës parking lot nine just before 4 p.m.
Metcalf had
previously issued her a parking ticket, at which time he discovered
that her vehicle had a fictitious tag and no insurance.
When he later
stopped her, he checked the tags with the Department of Motor Vehicles
and found that they were registered to a Dodge Caravan, according to
reports.
He then checked
her license and found it had been revoked because of a failure to
appear in court on a previous charge. The vehicle also had an expired
inspection sticker of May 2006, according to Metcalf.
The vehicle was impounded and Cox was arrested and taken to the magistrateës office for processing.
Missing former police chief
found whistling in woods
The search for a
former Asheville police chief who had been missing since early last
Wednesday ended just after midnight Thursday, when searchers followed
the sound of him whistling.
Fred Hensley,
74, who is afflicted with Alzheimerës disease, had last been seen when
he went out to walk his dog from his Beaverdam Road home and never
returned.
He was reported
missing about 2:15 p.m. According to his daughter, Hensley had recently
begun taking a new medication for his condition.
Hensley was
reportedly able to answer his cell phone, but could not describe his
whereabouts or dial 911 to activate the phoneës GPS signal because of
the disease. About 3:40 p.m., his phone stopped working, either because
its battery died or because he shut it off, officials said.
Meanwhile, the dog had returned without him.
Hensley was
discovered sitting and whistling under a pine tree, off an old logging
road near Faircrest Road. He was not far from Buzzardës Rock.
Hensley was
suffering from hypothermia when he was found. The temperature was about
30 degrees at the time. After being taken to Mission Hospitals, he was
listed as being in fair condition.
More than 100
people were involved in the search for Hensley, including Asheville
police officers, fire and rescue crews and a helicopter crew from the
State Highway Patrol.
Hensely retired
from the Asheville Police Department in 1989 after nine years as chief
and nearly 30 years working for the force.
Two charged with murder
of man over camping spot
Asheville police charged two men with the murder of a homeless man found under the Smokey Park Bridge last week.
Robert Adam
Hoover, 21, of Old Fort and Justin Harrison Nicholson, 20, of Charlotte
were charged in the death of 48-year-old James Lovin.
Lovinës body was found Jan. 28 on state-owned property adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Railroad property, near Roberts Street.
The dispute that
led to Lovinës murder reportedly began when the men fought over the
right to camp in a certain spot under the bridge.
Police reported
that Hoover and Nicholson, who had previously claimed the spot, found
Lovin sleeping there and proceeded to attack him.
During the
fight, Nickholson allegedly kicked Lovin numerous times, including at
least once in the head, but it was Hoover who inflicted the fatal
wounds, stabbing him in the back and the abdomen, according to police.
Hoover is
charged with first-degree murder. He was in custody at the McDowell
County jail at the time the charges were filed. He had been arrested on
an outstanding warrant, at which time a knife was found in his
possession, which police say may have been the murder weapon.
He will be released into the custody of Buncombe County upon his release from the McDowell County facility.
Nicholson is
charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. He
was arrested by police in Greenville, S.C., after getting off a bus
there. Nicholson is currently awaiting extradition back to Asheville.
Marshall man sentenced
to 6 years for making meth
A Marshall man
was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison for possession of
materials used to manufacture methamphetamines.
Ben Lee Bailey,
34, was sentenced to 80 to 105 months in prison after pleading guilty
in Buncombe County Superior court to attempted manufacturing of meth,
possession of immediate precursor chemicals for making meth and failure
to appear in court on a felony charge, officials said.
The materials
were discovered by a state highway patrolman when he stopped Bailey on
Interstate 40 on Feb. 2, 2005. The arrest happened shortly after the
N.C. General Assembly had increased the penalties for attempted
manufacturing of meth.
Man, ex take fight on road,
resulting in head-on crash
CANDLER ÇƒÓ A
head-on collision Jan. 24 between a Canton man and his ex-girlfriend
may have resulted from a fight the pair were having, authorities say.
Nathan Poston,
19, was hospitalized late in the morning, after his Ford Ranger struck
a Ford Mustang driven by Wendy Fowler, 21, about 1 a.m. on N.C. 151,
three miles southwest of Asheville.
Fowler and her passenger Courtney Frizzell, 19, were also treated and released at Mission Hospitals.
Poston was
charged with driving while impaired and reckless driving. In addition,
both drivers were cited for being left of center.
The pair
reportedly began their dispute in Canton, when Poston followed the
Mustang and exchanged gestures with the three passengers in Fowlerës
vehicle.
Authorities say
Fowler dropped off two of her passengers so they could fight Poston,
but he drove around them and continued to pursue her.
Fowler then turned her car around in order to drive toward Poston and the two collided head-on, officials said.
Smoke forces evacuation
of Citizen-Times building
Asheville
Citizen-Times employees were forced to evacuate the newspaperës
downtown office Jan. 17, following reports of smoke on the third floor
of the building.
Fire department
officials received a call about the smoke about 9:45 a.m. and
discovered that the smoke was caused by the buildingës heating system.
Asheville police department
promotes four of its officers
The Asheville
Police Department promoted four of its officers in a ceremony Jan. 12
in the auditorium of the Simpson Building at Asheville-Buncombe
Technical Community College.
Lt. Wade Wood was promoted to captain and is now in charge of Administrative Services.
Sgt. Sean Pound was promoted to lieutenant and is now the commander of the South/Central District.
Officer Ernie Welborn was promoted to sergeant. He remains in Criminal Investigations as a supervisor.
Officer Mike Hensley was promoted to sergeant and has been assigned to the West District.
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