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INCIDENT REPORT August 19, 2008
2008-06184
Found Livestock
Assigned: Officer Brown
Location: 920 Old Lincolnton Crouse Rd.
Victim:
Livestock found on Property
Date Reported: August 18, 2008
District A
2008-06185
Breaking & Entering, Larceny
Assigned: Officer Wilson
Location: 729 Seven Springs Way
Victim: Keith Norton
Suspect entered building and took 1 Troy Bilt
Push Mower, red in color
Date Reported: August 18, 2008
District C
GASTONIA MAN SHOCKED WITH TASER
DURING INCIDENT
By Jon Mayhew
Publisher
GASTONIA – Gastonia Police said
Monday it was a bad day for a 19-year-old who had
to be shocked
with a taser over the weekend while being
arrested for misuse of 911.
Police say that Robbie Douglas Maney, Maxton
Avenue, Gastonia, called 911 four times on
Saturday.
Gaston County Communications said two calls were
hang-ups; the third call a shooting on Rosewood
Lane; and the fourth
was to report a domestic violence incident on
Esses Street. Click here for the whole story
TENTATIVE
FERREE TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE RELEASED
By Jon Mayhew
Publisher
MAIDEN -- The fourth annual Josh
Ferree Memorial Softball Tournament is just
around the corner. For the 2008 tournament,
around 10
teams have signed up to participate in the
tournament held in memory of Josh Ferree, who
suddenly and unexpectedly died while
in the Basic Law Enforcement Training program.
Ferree was in training to be a trooper with the
North Carolina Highway Patrol. The schedule is
tentative and the tournament
will be held at the Maiden Recreation Center this
Friday and Saturday. A Home Run Tournament is
also scheduled for both nights.
DRUG TRAFFICKERS FACE
ADDITIONAL CHARGES IN GASTON COUNTY
By
Jon Mayhew
Publisher
LINCOLNTON -- A Lincolnton woman,
already in jail on drug charges, now faces more
charges in a Gaston County drug case.
Cherryville Police charged Tana Brown Parker, 45,
Lincolnton, and Heather Marie Stephenson, 27,
Dallas, with obtaining methadone
tablets through using a counterfeit prescription.
Cherryville Police Det. Mike Allred arrested
Stephenson Aug. 11 after she allegedly forged a
120-tabled prescription at a
.......... NEWTON
–The United
State’s Attorneys Office said over the
weekend a brutal beating last month in Newton is
not a hate crime.
Former Maiden High School football standout Tommy
Henry and two other suspects, Jarvis McCullough
and Johnny Abernathy were arrested in the beating
and torture of a
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INCIDENT REPORT August 18, 2008
2008-06028
Animal Bite
Assigned: Animal Control
Location: 803 Low Bridge Rd.
Victim: Kenneth Gross
Animal Bite
Date Reported: August 11, 2008
District B
Lincoln County 4-H'ers are Winners at State 4-H
Congress
By: April B. Dillon
Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development RALEIGH -- Lincoln
County 4-H'ers received honors at state
competitions during the annual North Carolina 4-H
Congress. The Congress
was held July 21-25 at North Carolina State
University.
State Winners were:
Cody Johnsen, 13, son of Jeff and Kristi Johnsen
of Denver, won the silver medal for the 11-13 age
division Soil Water and the
Environment Presentation.
GASTON WOMAN JAILED
IN WILD PARKING LOT INCIDENT
Police say “Extra Low Prices” Not
Motivation for Incident
By Jon Mayhew
Publisher
CHERRYVILLE
– A wild parking lot scene Sunday
at a Cherryville grocery store lands a Gaston
County woman in jail.
Police say that Patricia Gail Terres, 58, West
Church Street, Cherryville, chased another woman
around the parking lot of Food Lion
in Terres’ vehicle. Terres also struck a
vehicle in the parking lot and nearly struck the
vehicle’s driver, who had to jump out
of the way.
HEAVY
RAINS SLAM AREA
By Jon Mayhew
Publisher
LINCOLN/CATAWBA COUNTY – Mother
Nature brought heavy rain, thunder and lightning
around the Lincoln/Catawba County line
just after midnight Sunday. Around 12:30am,
thunder rumbled around Lincolnton and north of
Lincolnton.
The largest amount of rain fell between Newton
and Maiden in Catawba County, with reports of
anywhere between 6 and 8 inches
of rain.
The
Lincoln County Board of Commissioners will meed
tonight at 6:30 p.m.
in the Board of Commissioners' Room on the third
floor of the James W. Warren Citizens Center
at 115 W. Main Street.
The citizens of Lincoln County are always
encouraged to attend. The following is the agenda for this meeting
LINCOLN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
AUGUST 18, 2008
6:30 PM Call to Order
6:31 PM Invocation – Reverend Dr. Stanley
Spence
First Baptist Church
LINCOLNTON – With more than
12,000 children going back to more than 20
Lincoln County Schools next week, t
he following elementary and intermediate schools
are holding open houses.
The following schools will hold
their open house on Thursday, August 21, 2008:
1. Battleground Elementary – 5:00 pm to 7:00
pm
Lincoln County Officials
Laying the Smackdown on Two Shelters….
Something
happens of note every year when I go visit my
mother-in-law in the greater Georgetown, SC,
area.
This
year, it started with an email I received from
Joann Hager, informing me that Vicki Rauch was
arrested for failing to
appear in court regarding the complaint on her
animal shelter, filed by Lincoln County
government.
We
first reported the issue on The Carolina Scoop
after being contacted by both Rauch, whose son
owns All Creatures Great and
Small in Lincolnton, and a neighbor of
Rauch’s, who said the smell and noise of
Rauch’s 100-plus animals is
“unbelievable.”
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
ADDRESSES METH LABS
AT CONFERENCE
By
Jon Mayhew Publisher
CHARLOTTE
– North Carolina’s attorney
general Roy Cooper will address a state
conference in Charlotte on meth amphetamine labs.
Law enforcement officials across many levels
throughout the state will attend the Clan Lab
Investigator’s Association (CLIA)
conference 10 a.m. Monday in Charlotte.
The conference
will take place at the Hilton Charlotte City
Center, located at 222 East Third Street in
Charlotte.
Cooper will
speak to clan lab investigators, narcotics
agents, and police officers from across the
country about
LOW-FLYING PLANE
CROSSES GASTON/LINCOLN COUNTIES
By Jon Mayhew
Publisher
CHERRYVILLE – Several residents
along the Highway 182 corridor near the
Gaston/Lincoln County line
reported seeing a low-flying aircraft Friday
evening.
And, according to the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), they weren’t seeing
things.
An airbus, flying about 30 miles northwest of
Charlotte, had developed landing gear problems.
As a result,
the plane had to “dump” some fuel.
Kathleen Bergen with the FAA said the term
“dumping” fuel is misleading.
Wanted by the Newton Police
Department for Breaking and Entering
Click here for the whole story
THE
CAROLINA SCOOP'S
RELAXATION VIDEO
Publisher Jon
Mayhew recently spent a couple of days
"relaxing" at Surfside Beach, South
Carolina. "Relaxing" to Jon means not
having
to chase a story.....
In this exclusive
video on The Carolina Scoop, Mayhew showcases
what makes Surfisde Beach -- and the entire Grand
Strand, for that
matter -- absolutely beautiful.
Enjoy the
relaxation and a few moments at the beach.
TOURNAMENT TO REMEMBER FALLEN BLET CANDIDATE
Ferree Tournament Set for Friday, Saturday
By
Jon Mayhew
Publisher
LINCOLNTON -- Bats will be swinging for
a good cause Friday and Saturday, Aug.
22-23.
It's the fourth annual Josh Ferree memorial
softball tournament, which will be held at the
Maiden Recreation Center
in Maiden. Proceeds will go into a scholarship
for people attending Basic Law Enforcement
Training at Cleveland Community
College.
Ferree, who was in BLET at Cleveland Community
College, suddenly collapsed and died as he was
heading into the
woods as part of the training more than three
years ago.
Retired North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper
Jack Ferree, Josh's father, said the idea for the
tournament came from
Trooper B.E. Hipp.
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meth amphetamine labs. 
