Press Releases

Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik A. Hooks and other state officials held a dedication today to officially open the state-of-the-art Firearms Training Center at Samarcand Training Academy in Moore County.

What: Governor’s Crime Commission Quarterly Meeting
When: Thursday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Governor’s Crime Commission, First Floor Conference Room, 1201 Front St., Raleigh

Corrections and law enforcement officers are seeking inmate Tony Meeks (#0485911), who has escaped from Gaston Correctional Center, a minimum-security facility in Dallas.

WHAT: North Carolina Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik A. Hooks, along with other DPS leadership, government officials and community members, will participate in the dedication of the new Samarcand Training Academy Firearms Training Center in Moore County.

An inmate who escaped from the Gaston Correctional Center Friday morning is back in custody after being captured late this afternoon.

Members of the prison staff, along with the Gastonia Police Department, captured Tony Meeks in Gastonia around 5:40 p.m.  

Agents with the State Bureau of Investigation arrested a Gates County sheriff’s deputy on Friday, May 26, on sexual assault charges of a prisoner in his custody, and his case went before a Grand Jury in Hertford County this morning.

Severe storms and tornadoes swept through North Carolina late Wednesday evening, damaging homes, toppling trees, closing roads and knocking out power to several Piedmont communities.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named David Millis as the new superintendent at Hyde Correctional Institution in Swan Quarter.