Press Releases
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.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol has identified the trooper involved in the Sunday, March 27th fatal shooting that occurred at Club Aries located near the intersection of Suttontown Road and Poole Road in Lenoir County.
Winston Sherif Richards, 40, a citizen of Jamaica, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided over today’s plea hearing.
On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at approximately 2:15 a.m., a trooper responded to a call for assistance by the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office involving a shooting that had occurred at Club Aries located near the intersection of Suttontown Road and Poole Road.
UPDATE: March 28 1:08 am
Inmate Terrance Allen is back in custody after returning to the facility on his own a short time ago.
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Prison emergency response teams and local law enforcement are searching for escaped inmate Terrance Allen (#0005162). A minimum custody inmate, Allen was last seen on his work release assignment in Wilmington at approximately 7:40 p.m. Sunday.