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.According to a witness, a 2006 Pontiac G6 passenger vehicle was driving at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of traffic. The vehicle lost control, traveling onto the right side of the roadway and struck a tree. The vehicle then burst into flames and became fully engulfed. The collision resulted in a small fire in the adjacent wood line. The fire was quickly extinguished by responding emergency responders.
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UPDATE: Escaped Inmate Keith Bradley was captured in Raleigh at about 2:30 a.m. Corrections and law enforcement officers are seeking inmate Keith Bradley #0534855 who has escaped from Wake Correctional Center on Rock Quarry Road in Raleigh.
Inmate Scott Sica #1412673 was found unresponsive in his cell this morning at Scotland Correctional Institution. Prison medical staff and paramedics were unable to revive him and he was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.The Scotland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death.Sica, 40, was serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in 2014 to the 1996 murder of Jonesville police Sergeant Greg Martin. The shooting death happened during a traffic stop on Interstate 77.
A multi-car pile-up or a blazing chemical fire can put North Carolina’s telecommunicators to the test. They are trained to remain calm and communicate clearly as they relay information to first responders. Because of them, lives are saved and calamities controlled.National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, April 10 to 16, honored the workers and their profession.Department of Public Safety telecommunicators work for Emergency Management, State Capitol Police and the State Highway Patrol.
Governor Pat McCrory and officials with the Department of Public Safety today during an open house offered community leaders and elected officials their first view of the renovated Edgecombe Youth Development Center in Rocky Mount. Officials with the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice will open the new center on April 25 to provide safer, more secure and efficient care for committed youth in North Carolina.
Death row inmate Jerry Cummings, 76, died Saturday at a Chapel Hill hospital of natural causes. Cummings was first convicted in 1987 in Robeson County and received the death sentence for the murder of Jesse Ward, 76. That sentence was later overturned, but another jury sentenced him to death for a second time in 1997.
The State Highway Patrol responded to a fatal head-on collision in Wake County earlier today.
State prison inmates are getting some valuable on the job training at the National Guard Joint Force Headquarters dining facility that is hoped to be a recipe for success. The inmates are taking part in the Department of Public Safety's food and nutrition service assistant apprenticeship program. The National Guard and the department teamed up to offer breakfast and lunch meals for purchase by soldiers, state and federal employees that work in the Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ.)
Media Advisory: Meeting of Governor’s Task Force on Safer Schools Set for Next Wednesday in RaleighSteering Committees Meet on Tuesday, April 5 WHAT: The Governor’s Task Force on Safer Schools provides guidance to the N.C. Center for Safer Schools and considers future policy and legislative action that is needed to improve school safety in North Carolina. WHEN: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; 10 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. WHERE: N.C. Department of Public Safety
The State Highway Patrol has charged the driver involved in last Tuesdays fatal collision that resulted in the death of Michelle Simone Barlow, 42, of Wake Forest.Donald Wayne Caulder Jr., 29, of Laurinburg was taken into custody by the State Highway Patrol on Tuesday, March 29th in Scotland County and was charged with Misdemeanor Death by a Motor Vehicle and Failure to Reduce Speed. He was later released under a written promise to appear at his scheduled Wake County court date of Tuesday, June 28, 2016.