Tag Archives: kidnapping
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A home in an upscale south Charlotte community was ransacked and a teenager pistol-whipped by the invaders, police said. Police took the suspects into custody early Friday night and the victim’s stepbrother said he believes they knew what …Read More
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. —Three people are in jail Wednesday morning after police say they burst into a man’s home, attacked him and led officers on a chase. Police say they got a call around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday from a man …Read More
BELMONT, N.C. – Police in Belmont say a gunman who was holed up inside a CVS Pharmacy has come out and surrendered to investigators. Edward Scott Russ, 46, of Gastonia, took the three employees inside the store hostage. Russ was charged …Read More
KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. – A 15-year-old impersonating a Kershaw County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested after investigators say he entered a woman’s home and demanded she strip down. Sheriff Jim Matthews says the unidentified teen is currently detained by the Department of …Read More
MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. – A Mount Holly man has been charged in the abduction of a 3-year-old child and it’s mother. Ricahrd Yates Dagnen, 29, of 218 Tomberlin Rd., Mount Holly, was cahrged with kidnapping, breaking and entering and assault. …Read More
GASTONIA, N.C. – Police in Gastonia are working three separate kidnapping cases they believe are all connected. Gastonia Police say the first kidnapping occurred about 1:30 Saturday morning when a victim, who’d just left work, was unloading groceries from his …Read More
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. – Two men in their 60s said they were kidnapped from a church Monday morning. Claude Burdette, 69, and Tony Patterson, 60, said they were kidnapped from Flint Grove Baptist Church in Gastonia. Around 6 a.m. Monday, …Read More
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. – A Gaston County man appeared before a judge on Tuesday after he was accused of holding a woman hostage and assaulting her over the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Rodney James Helton, Junior was arrested on Sunday after officers talked …Read More
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. – Gaston County officials say 21-year-old Rodney James Helton, Junior was arrested after officers talked him out of a wooded area where he was hiding Sunday night. The capture ends a manhunt several hours long in the town of …Read More
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — There is a massive police presence in Mount Holly as law enforcement is attempting to capture a suspect. According to first responders, the call came in around 1:02 p.m. that a suspect on probation had kidnapped a …Read More
MONROE, N.C. — Officials said that a man followed a woman on Monroe Road Sunday night and then attacked her around 9:45 p.m. Police arrested Christian Pinzon-Reyes and charged him with second-degree rape and kidnapping. Officials said the victim did not …Read More
GASTONIA, N.C. – A domestic situation in Catawba County led to a 40-year-old woman’s death in Gaston County around 5:20 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. 321 at Duke Power Road, near Gaston College. A man with whom she had a relationship …Read More