A former state Department of Public Safety probation officer pled guilty today to four counts of second-degree rape, charges which reflect he abused his power to intimidate two women he was assigned to guide through their post-release cases.
Factors favoring the last two defendants in a 2014 murder and shooting outweighed those aggravating, a judge ruled this morning.
Semaj Short and Jamonte Moody were both sentenced today in the 2014 murder of a 2-year-old girl and the shooting of her grandmother in Weldon.
A superior court judge today revoked the bond of Marquise Whitmore and remanded the Roanoke Rapids man to custody without opportunity for bond pending his trial set for the May term in Halifax.
A Halifax County grand jury today returned true bills of indictment on 10 counts against a local funeral director.
The District Attorney’s office and defense attorneys today agreed on dates for trials and administrative sessions for 12 murders which remain on Halifax County court dockets.
Three days in court and our outlook is a little jaundiced.
In less than 30 minutes this evening a jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with a count of indecent liberties with a child.
The state rested its case today and the defense called no witnesses in the trial of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with indecent liberties with a minor.
Testimony today tied the indecent liberties with a minor count against a Roanoke Rapids minister to a kiss he reportedly gave the victim when she was 15 which extended from her collarbone to earlobe.
