Press Releases

State, federal and local law enforcement and public safety agencies joined forces Thursday in Carteret County for Operation Arrow, seeking wanted fugitives and absconders from probation or parole and conducting searches to ensure compliance of high risk offenders on supervision.

Inmate Steven Haas #0519426 was found unresponsive in his Central Prison cell just before midnight, after an apparent suicide.  He was declared dead at Central Prison’s medical center a short time later.

Correctional Officers from Bertie Correctional Institution pulled an American Eagle jet 25 feet in 7.85 seconds, making them the grand champions of the annual fundraising plane pull for Special Olympics at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. 

UPDATE: 5/1/2016   5:06 p.m.

The State Prison Emergency Response Team has captured escapee William Bailey. He was caught in Winston-Salem without incident around 4:00 p.m. with the assistance of local law enforcement. Bailey now faces escape charges.

Inmate Lori Pote #1459850 was reportedly found ill in her bed at approximately 2:30 this morning at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Pote was transported to a local hospital where she was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.

The State Highway Patrol is investigating a two vehicle collision on I-95 north in Johnston County near the I-40 interchange that resulted in one fatality

UPDATE:   4/27/2016    1 pm  

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, 2016, the Highway Patrol responded to a single vehicle fatality on US 64 eastbound near Shepard School Road.