Storm update
Prison visiting, community volunteer passes, home leaves and work release employment activities that were paused for the winter storm are scheduled to resume Tuesday, Jan. 27.
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On Tuesday, August 4, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina’s 5th District presented Trooper Brett Bush of Ashe County with the Purple Heart, a medal given to members of the military wounded or killed by enemy action or in action against the enemy.
On November 26, 2010, during his third tour while serving in the U.S. Marine Corp, Bush was wounded in Afghanistan. Bush served eight years in the Corp rising to the rank of sergeant before joining the North Carolina State Highway Patrol in January 2015 where he is currently assigned to Forsyth County.
Story by Sgt. Gina Russell
Maj. Gen. Greg Lusk, the adjutant general of the North Carolina National Guard, met with soldiers of Multinational Battle Group-East and talked about the bond between the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve, during a July 17-19 visit to Camp Bondsteel and other military installations in Kosovo.
State Representatives Jamie Boles, Pat Hurley and Allen McNeill joined Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank Perry and other officials in a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 31 for a new public safety training center in Moore County.
The North Carolina General Assembly allocated $10.4 million to renovate 14 of 24 buildings of the former juvenile facility, Samarcand Manor, and build a much-needed firearms training range.
Janet Bundy, a 19-year corrections veteran, has been named as the new superintendent at Carteret Correctional Center in Newport.
Bundy has served as the assistant superintendent at Carteret CC for the past four years. She began her corrections career in 1996 as a correctional officer at Craven Correctional Institution in Vanceboro.
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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.
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.