Press Releases

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice will host an open house at the Bridges Crisis and Assessment Center in Winston-Salem.

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, 2016, the Highway Patrol responded to a single vehicle fatality on US 64 eastbound near Shepard School Road.

UPDATE:  Escaped Inmate Keith Bradley was captured in Raleigh at about 2:30 a.m.

 

The State Highway Patrol responded to a two vehicle head-on collision in Warren County near the city of Warrenton that resulted in three fatalities.

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.

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.

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

Death row inmate Jerry Cummings, 76, died Saturday at a Chapel Hill hospital of natural causes.