Blotter: Man charged with marijuana possession at traffic checkpoint

Published 7:15 pm Monday, March 4, 2019

SALISBURY — Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies charged a man with simple possession of marijuana while conducting a traffic checkpoint in Granite Quarry.

Hugo Enrique Osorio, 25, was charged Thursday with simple possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

The stop was in the 1000 block of Byrd Road and Faith Road.

In other Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reports:

• A man reported a burglary Thursday in the 500 block of Cannon Farm Road, China Grove.

• A man reported Thursday that items were stolen from his property in the 100 block of Paige Drive.

• A man reported a stolen firearm Thursday in the 100 block of Cross Creek Drive, Gold Hill.

• Vernon Jerome Thompson, 43, was charged Thursday with felony breaking and entering at the Rowan County Magistrate’s Office.

• Amy Renae Davis, 48, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor larceny in the 1800 block of Henderson Grove Church Road.

• Justin Ray Merritt, 28, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor simple assault in the 2200 block of Jacob Bost Road.

In Salisbury Police Department reports:

• A man reported that a vehicle was stolen late Friday in the 1100 block of West Bank Street.

• A man reported Saturday that someone tried to pick his pocket in the 100 block of East Kerr Street.

• A woman reported an assault Sunday sin the 100 block of Clancy Street.

• A man reported vandalism Sunday in the 200 block of Pearl Street.

• A woman reported Sunday that someone stole items from her vehicle parked at Hurley Family YMCA, 828 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

• A woman reported Sunday that her vehicle was broken into and items were taken while parked at Hurley Family YMCA.

• A man reported Sunday that someone fired a BB gun at his home in the 1400 block of East Colonial Drive.

• An unlocked vehicle was broken into and ransacked at Livingstone College, but the suspects were scared off before taking anything.

• Michael Anthony Curzi, 20, was charged Monday with felony larceny of a firearm in the 300 block of Broad Street, Rockwell.

Contact reporter Shavonne Walker at 704-797-4253.