Four Weldon area men have been charged in the July 24 armed robbery of Weldon Produce Company, according to the town’s police department.
Two of the men were arrested yesterday and one was arrested Monday. The other was served a warrant in jail, Lt. James Avens said this morning.
The armed robbery occurred at 11 a.m. at the company located at 113 Maple St. Two people entered the building, one of them carrying a gun, and demanded money. The men left the company with an undisclosed amount of money.
The police department has been investigating the case since the robbery and was able to make arrests this week, Avens said.
Arrested were Raymond Mills, 19, James Tyreese Webb, 24, Tyrell Brack, 18, and Jessie Webb, 48.
Jessie Webb, an employee of the company, was charged with conspiracy to armed robbery while the other men were charged with armed robbery. While only two of the men allegedly went inside, a third man served as lookout, Avens said.
Mills was already in jail charged with other crimes including break-ins at Weldon City Schools, a case which remains under investigation. He is jailed on $100,000 bond and the rest of the men are jailed under $30,000 bonds, Avens said.
Lt. Bobby Martin of the Halifax County Sheriff’s was in Greenville today to check on the condition of a 3-year-old girl who was shot in the abdomen Sunday night.
At last check the girl remained in critical condition at Pitt Memorial Hospital, the investigator said.
Martin declined to elaborate on details of the case until the investigation is completed.
The shooting remains listed as accidental.
It occurred in the Myrick Estates subdivision in the Littleton area. The child was struck once.
The boy wanted for shooting a security guard Saturday has turned himself in, Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Jeff Hinton said this morning.
Hinton said Deputy Fred Whitaker of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office got word to Andrew Bell, 17, he should turn himself in and convinced the Roanoke Rapids boy to do so. Bell turned himself into the Roanoke Rapids Police Department around 11 last night. “We really appreciate Deputy Whitaker helping us,” Hinton said.
Bell was jailed on $50,000 bond and his court date is scheduled for Dec. 16.
Bell was wanted in the non-fatal shooting of Michael Proctor, a security guard at the former Rosemary mill, who was working when the boy allegedly approached him on an orange bicycle and demanded his money or wallet around 11:30 Saturday night.
Proctor told Bell he had neither and identified himself as a security guard. Bell allegedly shot him in the arm with a small caliber revolver. The shooting occurred in the 13th Street area of the former mill site.
Police got a break in the case Monday when officers from A Squad and the detective division spotted Bell around noon on an orange bike, a gun noticeable in his waistband.
The officers attempted to stop him and Bell fled, allegedly stealing another bike to make his getaway. While Bell got away, officers were able to identify him and obtain warrants for his arrest on charges of attempted robbery, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, flee to elude arrest and larceny of a bicycle.
Proctor, who was treated and released from the hospital, walked to the intersection of Roanoke Avenue and 13th Street to use a cell phone and call for help.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department will get one new officer through a $119,925 grant which requires no matching funds from the city, police Chief Jeff Hinton told council tonight.
The grant is administered through the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Hiring Recovery Program and funds the officer for three years, with a requirement the officer be kept on at the city’s expense for a year after, Hinton told The Spin following the meeting.
Hinton also told The Spin the officer would be a regular patrolman on the force. Council unanimously approved the grant and the accompanying budget amendment. Hinton said the department applied for the grant about four months ago.
The city has three vacant officer positions so one of them will be funded through the grant.
