BADIN –
Jack Clelland has been named as the new administrator at Albemarle Correctional Institution in Stanly County. Clelland is a 25-year corrections veteran who has most recently served as the assistant superintendent for custody and operations at Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Polkton.
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Last week officers from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, along with partners from local and federal law enforcement agencies, conducted compliance operations to check on high-risk offenders under community supervision and to locate fugitives and absconders from probation or parole supervision. Three separate operations based in Wake, Durham and Iredell counties wrapped up Thursday and resulted in numerous arrests and charges, the seizure of weapons, drugs and drug paraphernalia and cash.
Summary information for each operation follows:
UPDATE:
Attention All News Directors and Editors:
The State Highway Patrol has charged the tour bus driver, Eric Jimmerson, 23, of New York, N.Y. with the following charges:
Update:
Attention All News Directors & Editors:
The State Highway Patrol has charged the driver,
Kanak Singh, 28, of Raleigh, N.C.,
with the following charges as a result of the fatal collision that occurred on Monday, August 3, 2015 on I-540 near the Wake/Durham county line:
On Sunday August 2 at approximately 4:20 a.m., the State Highway Patrol responded to a collision on I-95 near mile marker 82. A tour bus operated by by Eric Jimmerson, 23, New York, NY, was traveling south on I-95. Mr. Jimmerson traveled off onto the right shoulder and struck a guard rail. The bus then crossed both southbound lanes into the median, traveling south in the north bound travel lanes where the driver of the bus was ejected.
Update: Escaped offender Jamie Parrish is back in custody. He was arrested at about 7:15 this morning by deputies from the Robeson County Sheriffs Office at a WalMart store in Pembroke.
Corrections and law enforcement officers are searching for Jamie Parrish who escaped from the Robeson CRV Center tonight. He was discovered missing shortly after 10 p.m.
Parrish, 40, was serving a 90-day period of confinement in response to a violation of his post-release supervision.
What:
National Guard and Active Duty exercise focused on air to ground integration.
When:
Saturday, August 1, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where:
Multiple sites on Fort Bragg, meet up at Stryker Golf Course, Bldg. K-1219 Bragg Blvd. (between Knox Street & Gruber Road).
Media Contact on Site:
Lt. Col Robert Bumgardner, Cell: (919) 612-9712
School officials, emergency managers and first responders at the state and county level are partnering to safeguard North Carolina’s public schools from all types of threats ranging from floods to tornadoes, fire, chemical spills or an even an active assailant.
School and safety officials have spent the past year developing detailed schematics of every public school facility in the state to provide emergency workers with the necessary information to respond to emergencies at any school.
The North Carolina National Guard celebrated the service and sacrifices made by the veterans of the 30th Infantry Division “Old Hickory” during a Veteran Recognition Day, at the Joint Force Headquarters July 24.
More than 20 WWII 30th Infantry Division veterans from across the country celebrated the service of the soldiers and the sacrifices of their families during WWII. The unit exemplified the dedication and patriotism of the Citizen-Soldier during WWII.
North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement special agents arrested a man this morning on alcohol and weapon violations following an early Sunday morning raid at an illegal nightclub in Bladenboro.
ALE agents and deputies from the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office raided The Honey Hole, 88 Spivey and Currie Drive, Bladenboro, after receiving numerous citizen complaints.