Jail and Corrections

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (114+ words) The case ultimately resolved through a plea rather than a capital trial. Judge Michael Duncan ordered Cook to serve three consecutive sentences of 300 to 372 months for the three murders, plus 64 to 89 months for arson, putting his total exposure between 964 and…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (201+ words) A Lenoir woman is now on the Burke County Sheriff's Office's Most Wanted list after failing to show up in court to face felony methamphetamine charges stemming from a traffic stop more than a year ago. Ashley Nicole Creasy, born…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (603+ words) Erik and Lyle Menendez will be before a parole board again next March, about 17 months earlier than expected. The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for the 1989 fatal shootings of their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (239+ words) After pleading guilty to kidnapping and possession of a firearm by a felon, a man who kidnapped an employee during an attempted robbery in 2025 will spend over a dozen years in prison. A judge sentenced Deangelo Shamond Toomer, 41, of Winston-Salem,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (281+ words) An ingenious inmate needed only a pencil to open his cell and escape from jail, according to investigators in South Carolina. The escape happened just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Chesterfield County Detention Center, and the inmate was recaptured within about…...