Press Releases
RALEIGH — A staffing shortage at two Asheville-area prisons has led to a temporary reconfiguring of staff and offenders.
Craggy Correctional Center and Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women both have significant staff vacancies. To create safer staff-to-offender ratios, the state prisons system this week temporarily closed one unit at Swannanoa and reassigned 25 correctional staff from that unit to Craggy.
RALEIGH — An officer at Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville was assaulted this morning by an offender.
The officer, a 17-year veteran, was alert when transported for medical attention. The assault occurred at 10:45 a.m. when the offender struck the officer with a fist, causing the officer to fall and cut his head.
Local law enforcement was immediately notified and is investigating. The Department of Public Safety will seek charges and is fully cooperating with the investigation. An internal investigation has been launched as well.
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ALE has concluded an investigation following a single-vehicle crash involving a juvenile, alcoholic beverages and a fraudulent identification.
The investigation began after ALE special agents were contacted by State Highway Patrol regarding a single-vehicle collision involving two underage, intoxicated females.
The driver, a 17-year-old juvenile, and passenger, Avery Wishnefskey, 18, of Iron Station, both had alcohol in their system at the time of the crash. Wishnefskey possessed a fraudulent NC driver’s license.
State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking Foothills Correctional Institution minimum custody offender John Curtis Anderson (#1338690), who escaped from the Morganton prison this morning by climbing a fence at the minimum custody portion of the facility and running away.
He was last seen wearing green pants and either a grey or white tee-shirt around 10:15 a.m. at the prison, where he was serving a sentence of two years and 10 months for identify theft and fraud. He may have jumped into a waiting vehicle of unknown description.
Officials with the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice have promoted Bill Woolard to Assistant Division Administrator in Judicial Division 1, effective Aug. 2, 2021.
In his new position, Woolard will oversee Community Corrections operations in the 1st Judicial Division, which covers 32 counties in the eastern and coastal portions of the state.
Foothills Correctional Institution minimum custody offender John Curtis Anderson (#1338690), who escaped Thursday morning by climbing a fence at the minimum custody portion of the facility and running away, was captured Thursday afternoon in a wooded area approximately three miles from the prison in Morganton.
On Monday, August 9th, 2021, Superior Court Judge Jason Disbrow signed a judgment in reference to a Chapter 19 Nuisance Abatement action involving a convenience store, operating as “Minit Shop,” located at 207 Middle Street, Maxton, North Carolina.
Chapter 19 of the N.C. General Statutes defines a public nuisance, and allows for a civil remedy to abate such nuisance activities.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is actively seeking an offender serving a portion of his active sentence outside of prison who has absconded from his residential location in Cabarrus County. The offender was participating in the Extending the Limits of Confinement (ELC) initiative.
Robert Arnette (#0909867) is a 39-year-old white male who stands 6-feet, 4-inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. He has blond hair and blue eyes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new residential eviction moratorium that will offer protection from eviction for most renters in North Carolina. The moratorium, which will remain in effect through Oct. 3, 2021, applies in U.S.
Gov. Roy Cooper and his public safety team convened state leaders in education, public safety, public health and criminal justice today in Greensboro to learn about North Carolina's new five-year strategic plan for creating safer schools. The State Action Plan on School Safety, developed during the last two years, builds off preexisting school safety studies by the Governor’s Crime Commission, the Center for Safer Schools, the U.S. Secret Service and information gained through public forums and meetings with stakeholders.