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Bogus $100 bill hits Wal-Mart

Submitted by David Whisenant
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010, 8:53am

SALISBURY - Salisbury Police want to know who passed a bogus $100 bill at Wal-Mart last weekend.

The store's manager reported the crime on Monday. 

According to the report, the fake bill was used to pay for items at register #22 at the Salisbury store on Saturday.

Salisbury Police Chief Rory Collins says it's unusual to find fake $100's.

"It is not common," Collins told WBTV. "Usually merchants more carefully scrutinize larger bills, so the smaller denominations are usually the ones preferred by counterfeiters.

Police have no leads in the case at this time.

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New surveillance video released from Dollar General robbery

Submitted by David Whisenant
Monday, August 2nd, 2010, 9:31am

SALISBURY - Two masked men with guns robbed the Dollar General store on S. Enochville Avenue in Kannapolis Sunday night.

The employees had just closed the store when they noticed the two men approaching the door.

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Salisbury man arrested after drugs found in home, police say

Submitted by WBTV Web Staff
Friday, July 30th, 2010, 4:18pm

SALISBURY, NC (WBTV) - Police have arrested and charged a Salisbury man who they say had several rocks of cocaine, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia inside his home.

Officers with the Salisbury Police Department arrested Delvin Rashadd Davis, 33, on Thursday after serving a search warrant at his South Church Street home.

During the search, they found 15 rocks or 7.2 grams of crack cocaine, a small amount of marijuana, weighing scales, baggies, and other items of paraphernalia.

Police say the drugs have an estimated street value of $420.

Davis is charged with Possession with intent to Sell and Deliver Cocaine, and Possession of Marijuana.

He is being held at the Rowan County Jail under a $35,000 secured bond.

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Car stripped of everything, including engine

Submitted by David Whisenant
Friday, July 30th, 2010, 9:30am

SALISBURY - A Rowan County man popped the hood on his car to find the engine had been taken, and that wasn't all.

Dana Thomas reported to the sheriff's office that not only had the engine been taken, but the transmission and the battery were also missing.

The items were taken from the car parked on Morrow Road in China Grove sometime on Tuesday.

Deputies are investigating.

 

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Police find gun and drugs after chase

Submitted by David Whisenant
Thursday, July 29th, 2010, 9:36pm

SALISBURY - On July 26, 2010 at approximately 10:30 pm, Salisbury Police Officer J. R. Gaither was dispatched to check the 700 block of Victory Street for three black men who were reportedly acting suspicious. 

Once on the scene, Officer Gaither identified the men by the clothing description given at the time of the original call to the Police Department. 

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Scales of justice meet scales of pot

Submitted by David Whisenant
Thursday, July 29th, 2010, 3:38pm

SALISBURY - On Thursday, July 29, 2010, the Salisbury Police Department’s Narcotics Unit executed a Search Warrant at 1209 Bringle Ferry Road. 

During the search, Detectives located 286 grams of marijuana and 2 sets of weighing scales.  This search was the result of a nearly month long investigation into drug activity at this location. 

The street value for the narcotics seized is estimated at $800. 

25 year old Ronald Lee Heggins, Jr., was arrested and jailed under a $2,500 secured bond with a first court appearance set for July 30th.    

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"Smelly" traffic stop yields drug cache

Submitted by David Whisenant
Thursday, July 29th, 2010, 11:07am

SALISBURY - A strange odor coming from an SUV that had been stopped on I-85 in Rowan County led to an interesting find.

On July 27, 2010 while working a joint drug enforcement interdiction project on I-85, members of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office A.C.E Team and the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office I.C.E Team, conducted a traffic stop on a 2010 Chevy Tahoe for a traffic violation just south of the China Grove exit on I-85.

During the course of the stop a strong odor of Marijuana was detected coming from inside the vehicle.

During a search of the vehicle, 19.5 pounds of Marijuana and $ 3181.00 cash was found and seized.

The street value of the seized drugs is listed at $44,225.00.

Meritza Denise Malcolm-Lawrence of Lithonia Georgia and Yazid Tahir Reid-Brown of Stone Mountain Georgia, were arrested and charged with Trafficking in Marijuana and placed in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $20,000.00 bond each.

 

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