SALISBURY - A 72-year-old Rowan County woman who is already facing charges of sex crimes involving a 7-year-old boy, is now charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and intimidating or interfering with a witness.

Juanita Byars had been out of jail on bond, but was charged again by deputies after this incident.

According to the sheriff's report, Byars assaulted a witness in the sex crime case, in fact, deputies say she threatened to kill the alleged victim and his mother and threw a brick at them.

SALISBURY - 9 people who were responsible for hundreds of break-ins in several counties have now been sentenced.

The man considered the "ringleader," Michael Chad Bowers, is going to prison for 27 years.

In August, 2009, sheriffs from 10 counties in North Carolina, 2 in South Carolina and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, held a press conference in Stanly Couny to announce that a break-in ring responsible for stolen property worth nearly $1,000,000 had been rounded up.

"There are no boundaries for criminals," Stanly County Sheriff Rick Burris said on the day of the press conference in 2009.

Earl Woodham of the BATF announced the federal indictment of nine people for firearm and conspiracy law violations.

125 firearms were recovered from the break-ins, including revolvers, rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic handguns and black powder rifles and revolvers.

ROWAN COUNTY - A Rowan County man has been charged with animal cruelty after deputies say he shot and killed his neighbor's pet chihuahua.

Samuel Wright, 41, was arrested Monday afternoon after he told Sheriff's deputies that he shot Otis, the pet chihuahua, when it came into his yard along the 100 block of Ashcraft Lane in western Rowan County.

Wright told deputies that he'd asked his neighbor, Kerry Worthy, multiple times to keep Otis away from his yard.

On Monday afternoon, deputies say a friend of Worthy's, Tammy Smith, came to the home to let the dog out and Otis went into Wright's yard.