An inmate who jumped from a moving work crew van this afternoon was swiftly captured and returned to custody following a multi-agency search, according to Captain Ashley Collier of the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office.
Two people spoke Monday night as the Halifax County Board of Commissioners continued its road show — this time meeting at the Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall in Roanoke Rapids.
The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office continues to look for two people wanted following a drug trafficking raid Friday, while one is behind bars awaiting his first district court appearance next month.
The armory beside Roanoke Rapids High School could be demolished if the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District is awarded a state Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund grant for a new building that would house the early college and career and technical education center, Superintendent Bennett Jones told Halifax County commissioners Monday night.
An Enfield man was arrested Friday on a charge of second-degree forcible rape, according to Major Anzell Harris of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.
