By Beth Feeback
For the Salisbury Post
A Concord man has been charged with murder two days after his release from jail on drug charges last week.
Police arrested Ernest Lamont Moody, 41, of Carver Ave. S.W., Concord, on Saturday, after they say he killed Janet Fink Winecoff of Central Avenue in Kannapolis on Friday night.
Sources say Moody killed Winecoff by strangulation.
Police reported the case as a domestic dispute, but one man purporting to be a family member posted on a local news Web site that Winecoff only knew her victim peripherally, and that the killing was an act of revenge because Winecoff tipped police to Moody’s whereabouts before his most recent incarceration.
The Cabarrus Sheriff’s Department Web site posts a lengthy record of jail time for Moody, including a 2006 prison sentence for being a habitual felon. Charges since then include driving without a license, misdemeanor larceny, providing false information to a police officer and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He had just come out of jail after a three-week stint for possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of failure to appear in court, one for driving while license revoked, and the other for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
A Web site poster with the user name “flynnpopo” wrote on the WCNC.com Web site that he had arrested the suspect before, only to have him returned to the streets:
“I’ve locked this guy up several times. What does that tell you about the system!! REVOLVING DOOR!!”
Popo is a common slang term for police officer.