Press Releases

Inmate Scott Sica #1412673 was found unresponsive in his cell this morning at Scotland Correctional Institution.  Prison medical staff and paramedics were unable to revive him and he was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.

With the beginning of prom season, the North Carolina the Highway Patrol will conduct Operation “Drive to Live” during the week of April 18,  2016.  The operation will be conducted from 6:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. each day.

A multi-car pile-up or a blazing chemical fire can put North Carolina’s telecommunicators to the test.  They are trained to remain calm and communicate clearly as they relay information to first responders.  Because of them, lives are saved and calamities controlled.

The State Highway Patrol and NCDOT are once again teaming up in its annual Spring Litter Sweep campaign.

Governor Pat McCrory and officials with the Department of Public Safety today during an open house offered community leaders and elected officials their first view of the renovated Edgecombe Youth Development Center in Rocky Mount.

Death row inmate Jerry Cummings, 76, died Saturday at a Chapel Hill hospital of natural causes. Cummings was first convicted in 1987 in Robeson County and receive

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: State Emergency Response Commission Meeting The 19-member SERC is responsible for protecting the state’s citizens and environment through effective emergency planning. Note: Several new commissioners will be sworn in at the Friday meeting.

Today, the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons (NCCMP) will be honoring 10-year old Karen Le from the Boys and Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County with the Center’s prestigious Bring Our Missing Children Home state trophy.

The State Highway Patrol responded to a fatal head-on collision in Wake County earlier today.

State prison inmates are getting some valuable on the job training at the National Guard Joint Force Headquarters dining facility that is hoped to be a recipe for success.

Media Advisory: Meeting of Governor’s Task Force on Safer Schools Set for Next Wednesday in RaleighSteering Committees Meet on Tuesday, April 5 

The State Highway Patrol has charged the driver involved in last Tuesdays fatal collision that resulted in the death of Michelle Simone Barlow, 42, of Wake Forest.

Winston Sherif Richards, 40, a citizen of Jamaica, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol has identified the trooper involved in the Sunday, March 27th fatal shooting that occurred at Club Aries located near the intersection of Suttontown Road and Poole Road in Lenoir County.

UPDATE:   March 28  1:08 am    Inmate Terrance Allen is back in custody after returning to the facility on his own a short time ago. ---------------------