Staff report
A Salisbury man, already in the Rowan County Detention Center, faces additional charges of safecracking, breaking and entering, larceny and larceny of a firearm.
Investigators with the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office charged Justin Craig Sprinkle, 21, of 1240 Dukemont St. Sunday for offenses that occurred at several addresses between June 17 and Nov. 29. He was taken from the jail to the Rowan County Magistrate’s Office, where he was placed under additional bond of $110,000.
Here is a list of the new offenses for which Sprinkle is a suspect:
– Breaking into a residence on Flash Bullet Drive in Rockwell and taking a safe, jewelry, pillows, prescription medication, a cell phone and .22-caliber pistol. Value of the items was $3,345. The break-ins occurred Aug. 29 and Nov. 29.
– The theft sometime in August of a backpack leaf blower and chainsaw from a Knox Road residence in Cleveland. The items were valued at $777.
– Breaking into a storage building on Gumtree Drive in Cleveland and taking a $250 air compressor.
– Breaking into a storage building on Legion Club Road, Salisbury, and taking a pressure washer, camcorder and camera worth a total of $2,050.
In other reports Sunday from the Rowan County Magistrate’s Office, the Rowan County Sheriff’s office charged Curtis Carl Cowan, 42, of 423 Mildred Ave., Salisbury, with second-degree kidnapping and insurance fraud.
Reports allege he kidnapped and terrorized Juanita Dela Rosa between Nov. 28 and Dec. 5.
Cowan also is accused of making a false statement Dec. 3 about an injury to Allstate Insurance as part of a claim for payment.
His first appearance on the charges will be today in District Court. His bond was set at $10,000.
Salisbury Police charged Timothy Austin Hall, 39, of 500 N. Central Ave., Landis, with stealing a 2001 Toyota Tacoma truck from Shirley Lindsay of 1804 Stokes Ferry Road. The offense allegedly occurred Dec. 12.
Landis Police also charged Hall with second degree trespass on a complaint from Doris Tilley of East Taylor Street, Landis. Hall’s bond was set at $7,500, and his first appearance in court will be Wednesday.