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Sheriff: Two charged with heroin trafficking, responsible for supplying large amounts to Rowan

Staff reports SALISBURY — Rowan authorities charged two people with trafficking heroin that officials say was obtained from ...

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Blotter 11/20

Cindy Barnes Dixon, 57, was arrested on Friday and charged with trafficking opium or heroin and maintaining a ...

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Rowan officials looking for Salisbury man involved in meth lab

SALISBURY — Rowan County investigators say they are looking for a man involved in a six-month long meth ...

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Teen holds group at Kannapolis home at gunpoint in bizarre incident

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com KANNAPOLIS — A China Grove teen remains in the county jail today after a ...

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Oakboro woman cited after driving car through fire department doors

SALISBURY — An Oakboro woman was issued a citation Wednesday after she drove her vehicle through the front ...

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Deputies find remnants of meth labs, bomb making materials

SALISBURY — A Salisbury couple are accused of possessing 10 “one-pot” meth labs at their Old Mocksville Road ...

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Two registered sex offenders added to wanted list

SALISBURY — Rowan authorities are looking for two men on the sex offender registry who’ve failed to notify ...

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78-year-old sex offender faces new charges for decades-old incident

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A 78-year-old Rowan man, who is a registered sex offender, faces new ...

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Box-cutter threat leads to robbery, arrest

Editor’s note: The charge described below against Seku Mohammed Sheriff was dismissed and his record expunged, according to ...

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Man accidentally shoots leg while cleaning gun

ROCKWELL — The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reports that one was injured in an accidental shooting Saturday. According ...

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Salisbury Police Chief: Body cameras should have been used during Lafayette St. house search

SALISBURY — The local chapter of the NAACP used a press conference to voice questions about the recent ...

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Car caught in crossfire Monday

SALISBURY — Salisbury Police reported that there were no injuries in a shots-fired incident Monday evening. A man told ...

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Four wanted in connection to Virginia murder arrested in Rowan County

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Rowan authorities say they, along with assistance from other area law enforcement, ...

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Tussle in the kitchen leads to pill possession charges

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Authorities say a tussle in a kitchen led them to charge a ...

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Police find marijuana hidden inside large candle

SALISBURY — After police responded to a report of shots being fired in the 500 block of South ...

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Police respond to shots fired on Shaver Street; man shot in the leg

SALISBURY — Police say a local man was dropped off at the hospital after he was shot in ...

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Convicted sex offender was coaching midget football

Kevin Lamar Concepcion, 33, of Mooresville, was arrested Monday and charged with a violation of the North Carolina ...

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Blotter: Picnic tables set on fire at Henderson Independent High School

SALISBURY — Picnic tables were set on fire at Henderson Independent High School on Friday. According to Salisbury ...

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October shooting suspect arrested in Florida

A suspect in an Oct. 15 shooting has been arrested, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reports. Keith Alexander ...

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Police looking for suspects in Virginia homicide

A Virginia homicide has spilled over state borders as local law agencies have identified suspects believed to live ...

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NAACP leader cites ‘red flags’ on fatal shooting

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The president of the local NAACP said Friday the fatal shooting of Ferguson Laurent ...

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Rowan sheriff’s detectives, others featured in Snapped TV episode

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Fans of the Oxygen true-crime reality series “Snapped” will see some familiar ...

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Rockwell woman convicted as habitual felon

Following a jury trial, Erin Lynn Upright of Rockwell was convicted by a jury this week in Rowan ...

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One man dead after firing at officers; officers fire back

UPDATE: Police have identified the man who they say fired at officers this morning as Ferguson Claude Laurent ...

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Sheriff: Man out of the hospital, charged with firing at deputies

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com ROCKWELL — A Rockwell man who fired at Rowan authorities a week ago has ...

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Police investigating overnight arson at Salisbury duplex

SALISBURY — Salisbury Police are looking into who may have set fire to the porch of a South ...

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Police: More charges for teen charged in business armed robberies

SALISBURY — A local teen faces an added charge this week after police connected him to an October  ...

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Sheriff: Felon found with 11 firearms in bedroom

By Shavonne Walker shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com ROCKWELL — Rowan authorities found a Rockwell man lying in the floor of his ...

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