NOTES: East
Lincoln's Velazquez ejected in fourth quarter and
may be off team per school officials.....Maiden's
first CVAC conference win........
So-Called
“H2O Bandit” Strikes at Two Convenience
Stores in Lincoln County
By Jon Mayhew
LINCOLNTON
– Lincoln County Sheriff’s detectives
are investigating thefts at two convenience
stores on Highway 150 east of Lincolnton, after a
suspect poured water on the floor, told the clerk
then searched the checkout counters while the
clean-up was underway.
The suspect is described as a white male, 40 to
45 years old, with brown hair and wearing blue
athletic shorts and a long sleeve button up shirt
He went into Falls Quick Stop at 4999 East
Highway 150 and Country Corner at 2847 East
Highway 150 between 4 pm and 5 pm on Wednesday.
At Falls Quick Stop the man emptied several
bottles of water on the floor in front of a
cooler then reported to the clerk on duty that
there
WOMAN
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT, LARCENY FROM
CONVENIENCE STORE Woman arrested when
reporting for work at Times Turn Around
By Jon
Mayhew
LINCOLNTON --
Instead of clocking in for her shift and starting
work on Thursday, a 35-year-old Lincolnton woman
is arrested and taken to jail, charged with
stealing from her employer.
Brenda Wright
Parson of Magan Drive, Lincolnton, was arrested
around 3:40 p.m. by Lincolnton Police officer
NORTH BROOK --
Lincoln County Sheriff's Department detectives
are investigating whether or not an overnight
shooting was the work of the victim or someone
else.
The incident
started unfolding around 2:30 a.m. Friday at a
residence located in the 6600 block of Charleston
Trail.
The 47-year-old
male victim called 911 himself to report the
shooting. When authorities arrived,
Funeral for Chastity Spivey
planned for Saturday in Maiden
By Jon Mayhew
LINCOLN COUNTY
-- As the family of Chastity Spivey prepares to
say goodbye Saturday at the 23-year-old's funeral
in Maiden, family is also praying and hoping
Spivey's two children continue recovering from a
tragic ordeal the trio suffered Tuesday night.
The Carolina
Scoop has learned Chastity Spivey was born in
Lincoln County December of 1984.
Family members
said the children -- Taylor Peyton, 4, and John
Peyton, 2 -- are still in critical condition
Thursday night at Carolinas Medical Center in
Charlotte.
Tuesday before 9
p.m., Spivey and her two children were traveling
on Gladden Drive near Springs East Road in
northern Lincoln County, when Spivey lost control
of her SUV and ended up in a pond, upside down in
about five feet of water.
Spivey's fiance
was in a vehicle in front of Spivey. He stopped,
jumped into the water and while trying to make
entry into the vehicle, screamed for help.
Neighbors unsuccessfully tried to get into the
vehicle and, according to a neighbor that was in
the water, the fire department got into the
vehicle, rescuing the trio.
None of the
vehicle occupants had pulses when they were
pulled from the water, according to authorities.
They were all three revived on the way to the
hospital but Spivey died early Wednesday morning
in Charlotte.
Thursday night,
the children's aunt Amy Carden said the thing
people can do the most is pray for the children.
"That's
what we all can do for them right now," she
said.
Family members
said John gave them hope Thursday, moving his
arms and legs and coughing. While doctors were
able to slightly reduce his level of sedation,
the toddler remained sedated for pain management.
The same,
however, can't be said for his older sister,
Taylor. Thursday, doctors had to put a tube in
her lungs when they
Photo by The Carolina
Scoop's Adam Diaz Police have identified the driver of a
Geo Metro who struck a residence as 38-year-old
Antonio Velazquez of Lincolnton.
By Jon
Mayhew
LINCOLNTON --
The driver who hit a residence on Huss Street
Thursday afternoon has been identified in a
Lincolnton Police Department accident report.
Officer T. Potts
identified the driver of a Geo Metro as Antonio
Velazquez, 38, of 2305 Arney Street.
Potts indicate
Velazquez was traveling south on Huss Street
around 1:10 p.m. when he crossed the center line,
traveling nearly 80 feet off the roadway before
striking a porch at 202 Huss Street.
Velazquez's
vehicle was crushed by the impact; authorities
said there weren't any skid marks prior to
impact.
Authorities at
the scene indicated speed may have been a factor
in the accident, that blocked Huss Street at
Arney
Police: Car went 77 feet off Huss Street near
Arney Street.
By Jon Mayhew
BOGER CITY --
Lincolnton Police said a driver went nearly 80
feet off of Huss Street without slowing down,
striking a vacant house just before 2 p.m.
Thursday.
Lincolnton
police, investigating the incident, said the
unidentified male driver left the road in the
curve just after Arney Street, sideswiping the
tree and striking the unoccupied house's front
porch. There were no signs of skid marks.
The house, at
202 Arney Street, was being remodeled by the
landlord at the time of the accident.
Neighbor Debi
Fletcher said she was sitting at her computer at
the time of the crash.
"It sounded
like an explosion," she said.
The driver had
to be extricated from the vehicle and taken by
ground to Carolinas Medical Center - Lincoln.
Authorities wanted to
Photo by The Carolina
Scoop's Adam Diaz
Lincoln Charter School principal Judy Smith was
"arrested" Thursday, one of 50 people
in Lincoln County sought to raise money for the
Muscular Dystrophy Association.
PEOPLE
"ARRESTED" FOR GOOD CAUSE THURSDAY Muscular Dystrophy
Association Exceeds Goal for 2008
By Jon
Mayhew
LINCOLNTON -- In
front of her children Thursday, Judy Smith was
arrested by Lincoln County Shereiff's deputy Don
Sain.
It wasn't for a
crime that Smith, principal of the Lincolnton
campus, was arrested for, however; it was to help
in the fight against Muscular Dystrophy.
Thursday, the
Boger City Fire Department turned into a
"jail," an attempt to "lock
up" a dreaded neuromuscular disease that
affects millions of lives.
Authorities
spent the day "rounding up suspects,"
who were then "jailed" under
"bond" and had to call family, friends
and co-workers to raise "bail."
As she was being
processed into "jail," Smith said that
her Lincolnton students raised more than $1,450
dollars in a penny war towards her
"bail."
"Men
don't believe in the devil now, as their fathers
used to do? They've forced the door of the
broadest creed to let his majesty through; There
isn't a print of his cloven foot, or a fiery dart
from his brow, To be found in the earth or air
today, for the world has voted so. But who is
mixing the fatal draught that palsies heart and
brain, And loads the earth of each passing year
with ten hundred thousand slain? Who blights the
bloom of the land today with the fiery breath of
hell. If the devil isn't and never was? Won't
somebody rise and tell? Who dogs the steps of the
toiling saint, and digs the pits for his feet?
Who sows the tares in the field of Time wherever
God sows his wheat? The devil is voted not to be,
and of course the thing is true; But who is doing
the kind of work the devil alone should do? We
are told he does not go about as a roaring lion
now. But whom shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row To be heard in home, in church,
in state, to the earth's remotest bound, If the
devil, by a unanimous vote. is nowhere to be
found? Won't somebody step to the front forthwith
and make his bow and show How the frauds and
crime of the day spring up, for surely we want to
know. The devil was fairly voted out, and of
course the devil's gone; But simple people would
like to know who carries his business on."
Unknown
Photo
by Jon Mayhew/The Carolina Scoop
INCIDENT REPORT
October 9, 2008
2008-05144 Larceny
Assigned: Investigator Sain
Location: 2168 Gastonia Hwy
Victim: Randy Carpenter
Suspect took assorted tools from bed of truck
Date Reported: July 10, 2008
District A
2008-06658 Operate/Possess
Slot Machine, Slot Machine Agreement, Operate
Video Gaming Machine
Assigned: Detective McKenzie
Location: 9413 Hwy 10
Victim: State of N.C.
Suspects participated in the operation of video
gambling
Date Reported: September 3, 2008
District A
More than 1,100 first
graders did "YMCA" during the opening
of the 17th annual Fire Safety Fair at Betty Ross
Park in Lincolnton.
Photo by Jon Mayhew/The Carolina Scoop
RAIN DOESN'T
DAMPEN SPIRITS AT FIRE SAFETY FAIR
Exclusive video of the kids
doing "YMCA" and "The Twist"
during the opening of the fair.
By Jon
Mayhew
LINCOLNTON --
More than 1,100 first graders invaded Betty Ross
Park Wednesday morning to learn about fire and
life safety at the annual Fire Safety Fair.
Lincolnton
firefighters were joined by Lincoln EMS and
Lincoln Life Saving Crew, as well as firefighters
from other departments across
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Lincoln
County Schools finance director Steve Zickefoose
(center) receives congratulations from
superintendend Dr. David Martin (left) and school
board chairman George Dellinger (right) for
receiving a certificate of excellence in
financial reporting for the 17th year in a row
from the Association of School Business Officials
International. School board members plan to talk
to county commissioners about $15 million in
bonds held up Monday. Photo by Jon
Mayhew/The Carolina Scoop
SCHOOL BOARD
MEMBERS TO TALK BONDS WITH COMMISISONERS
By Jon
Mayhew
LINCOLNTON -- In
an early sign of tough economic times, county
commissioners Monday night put a hold on issuing
$15 million in school bonds to Lincoln County
Schools. Wednesday night, board members discussed
on how to move forward in dealing with the issue.
School board
member Fred Jarrett brought up the issue during
the regularly scheduled meeting.
"I'm
bringing up the issue because some of the bond
money may not be released because the interest
rate has spiked," said Jarrett.
School officials
say the $15 million would be used for a new roof
on Lincolnton High School; work on Rock Springs
Elementary in Denver;
LINCOLNTON --
One of Lincolnton's more colorful characters is
in trouble with the law and now the man called
"Spiderman" has a court date.
According to an
incident report on file at the Lincolnton Police
Department, Issac Gillespie, 25, assaulted
another man in the 900 block of Catawba Street.
MOTHER,
TWO CHILDREN CRITICALLY
INJURED IN TUESDAY NIGHT ACCIDENT A woman driving an SUV
ends up in a pond on Gladden Drive Tuesday night.
The woman and her two small children are
arilifted to Carolinas Medical Center in
Charlotte with critical, life-threatening
injuries.
Photo by Jon Mayhew/The Carolina Scoop.
By Jon
Mayhew
NORTH LINCOLN --
A mother and two children, aged two and five, are
rescued from their overturned vehicle in five
feet of water Tuesday night. The incident
happened around 8:40 p.m. on Gladden Drive, off Springs East Road
and Maiden Highway.
Now, the mother
and two kids are clinging for life as authorities
are investigating the accident.
Originally,
authorities said the two children didn't have a
pulse. However, while authorities pulled the car
out of the water, word came the two children were
revived by medics while en-route to the hospital.
All three were airlifted from Carolinas Medical
Center - Lincoln to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
Two Children, boy age 2
and girl age 5, are in critical condition By Jon Mayhew
NORTH LINCOLN --
The Carolina Scoop has learned one of three
victims in a tragic Tuesday night accident has
died at Carolinas Medical Center.
Chastity Spivey,
23, was driving the family SUV on Gladden Road
near Springs East Road around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday,
when she lost control of the vehicle and flipped
upside down in a pond.
Spivey and her
two children -- John Peyton, 2, and Taylor
Peyton, 5 -- were trapped in the SUV in about
five feet of water.
