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This year, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety prison system saw a three-fold increase in the number of facilities growing and donating produce to local food banks, community pantries and social service organizations. The 20 facilities more than doubled the amount of fruits and vegetables sent to help fight hunger and improve health in their communities.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is urging motorists to avoid US301 and I-95 if at all possible in Robeson County.
On Monday, October 10th at approximately 8:08 p.m., two members of the Robeson County Sheriff’s office accompanied by a sergeant with the State Highway Patrol were conducting search and rescue operations in Lumberton. Preliminary information shows while traveling on a flooded portion of west Fifth Street, the officers encountered a male individual. The male became hostile towards the officers and displayed a handgun. After observing the handgun, the sergeant shot the man who succumbed to his injuries. The identity of the subject is unknown at this time.
Officials with the Department of Public Safety have requested that law enforcement look into the cause of death of an inmate at Caledonia Correctional Institution.
A correctional sergeant found Charles Moss (0504341) unresponsive just before midnight Wednesday night. Correctional staff initiated CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and called EMS and the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office. Attempts to resuscitate the inmate were not successful and EMS pronounced Moss deceased just before 1 a.m.
A correctional sergeant found Charles Moss (0504341) unresponsive just before midnight Wednesday night. Correctional staff initiated CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and called EMS and the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office. Attempts to resuscitate the inmate were not successful and EMS pronounced Moss deceased just before 1 a.m.
A three day initiative dubbed Operation Zero Hour resulted in the arrest of 123 individuals and the service of 170 warrants charging individuals for various violent crimes including murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, robbery, aggravated assault, kidnapping, sexual assault, child molestation, and parole/probation violations. Beginning in the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday February 23rd, law enforcement officers in Robeson County hit the streets in search of some of the area’s most dangerous offenders.
One was spirited and outspoken, the other calm and quiet. Both men became leaders in their agencies after enduring the struggles of being among the first in their fields.Talmadge “Pete” Barnett and Richard W. Holden worked during the turbulent civil rights era, and led the way for other minorities. At the end of their careers, Barnett was a regional commander of what was then the Division of Prisons, and Holden was the commander of the State Highway Patrol.
The New London and Tarheel Challenge Academy cadets used their newly refurbished bus Feb. 12 when cadets traveled to Raleigh to visit the state legislative building and the Museum of Natural Sciences. The former prison bus is a result of interagency cooperation among the Department of Public Safety's Fleet and Materials Management, Adult Correction and the North Carolina National Guard.The cadets' trip was used to reinforce classroom lessons about history and state government. The N.C. National Guard operates two Tarheel Challenge Academies in New London and Salemburg.
Administration Secretary Bill Daughtridge Jr. today presented Stanley C. Melvin, director of Pitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Greenville, with the prestigious John R. Larkins Award during the 2016 State Employees Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in downtown Raleigh. This award is the highest civil rights honor that can be won by a state employee.
Badge of Excellence awards were bestowed on 14 Department of Public Safety employees at a ceremony Jan. 21 held at the Joint Force Headquarters.DPS Secretary Frank Perry commended the work of the employees and quoted Aristotle on the meaning of excellence, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”“Today, we do not honor only their outstanding contributions,” Perry said, “but also a fantastic group of individuals whose very nature is to be excellent in what they do.”
Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank Perry addressed attendees of the 10th Annual Eastern North Carolina Gang Conference held at the University of Mount Olive on Jan. 7.“We have a growing, serious gang problem,” Perry said. “Ninety percent of violent crime is caused by gangs.” However, Perry said that North Carolina is ahead of most states in being on top of the gang problem because of the technological resources in place, good law enforcement and dedicated community groups.