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Search for probationers leads to arrests countywide

Authorities charged more than two dozen people throughout Rowan County following a series of warrantless searches of homes ...

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Police: Virginia women charged with shoplifting, police confiscate hundreds of items

Authorities charged two Virginia women with taking purses from a local store and upon searching their vehicle discovered ...

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Woman charged with pocketing money at local restaurant

Authorities charged a Salisbury woman with taking money from a local restaurant where she worked but added it ...

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Sheriff: Rockwell man on half million bond, charged with child pornography, sex offense with minor

A Rockwell man remains in the county jail this morning following an investigation into online child pornography, authorities ...

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Sheriff: Suspect leaves behind headphones at home break-in

Authorities were able to tie headphones left at a home break-in to a Salisbury man who stands accused ...

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Sheriff: Parolee charged with tampering with electronic monitoring device

A Salisbury man remains in the Rowan County jail this morning after authorities discovered he’d removed his electronic ...

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Police investigate early morning shooting

Salisbury Police are investigating a shooting that occurred near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Cemetery Street early ...

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Blotter: Salisbury man charged with violating domestic protective order while the victim was in the car

A Salisbury man who already has a pending child abuse case in court will have to appear later ...

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Police: Man robs woman in downtown Salisbury

Authorities say a man displayed a gun and stole a woman’s cell phone Monday as she walked in ...

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Man who says ‘I smoked it all’ charged with obstruction

Authorities charged a man with misdemeanor obstruction after he walked up to an investigation already in progress and ...

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Police stop for expired plate leads to short foot chase, charges for pair

Authorities chased a Salisbury man who continued driving after police tried to pull him over for an expired ...

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Authorities say woman took $700 worth of perfume from CVS, tried to blame daughter

Police say they charged a Salisbury woman with taking more than $700 worth of perfume from a local ...

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Candlelight vigil will honor slain teenager

A year ago today, Roosevelt Jenkins received the last text message he would ever receive from his son, ...

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Traffic stop leads to drug charges for 2

Authorities charged two Salisbury men with drug possession following a drug investigation and subsequent traffic stop Friday afternoon. ...

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Salisbury man faces numerous sex charges Warrants say victim was under age of 13

Editor’s note: This article has been amended from a previous version to correctly state the first name of ...

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Police, probation officers find marijuana plant, other drug paraphernalia at South Long Street home

Three men were charged after authorities served a search warrant at a South Long Street home in conjunction ...

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Weapon, drug citations issued at school

A Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputy on Wednesday found two knives and a joint in a West Rowan ...

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Argument leads to hit and run

A man hit another man with his gold-colored minivan Wednesday, and then drove home, according to police reports. ...

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Police: Woman with history of drug conviction charged with cocaine, marijuana possession

Police charged a Salisbury woman with cocaine and marijuana possession after searching her home Tuesday morning. Diane Marie ...

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Sheriff: Intoxicated man with history of DWI charged with punching deputy

Rowan authorities charged a Rowan County man with driving while impaired following a two-vehicle crash on Old Beatty ...

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Rowan County man with lengthy criminal record charged with making threatening calls

A Rowan County man with a lengthy, and sometimes violent, criminal record was charged this week with making ...

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Pregnant woman charged with disorderly conduct, other charges

A belligerent pregnant woman was charged with communicating threats, disorderly conduct and resisting, delaying or obstructing a public ...

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Salisbury man charged with robbing, drawing knife on a woman during carjacking

A Salisbury man was charged Tuesday with robbery after an August incident where he was accused of drawing ...

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Police charge man, seize pound of marijuana in freezer, handgun found in child’s bedroom

Police seize drugs, pills, cash and a weapon in the Grace Street apartment of a man on electronic ...

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Warrants: Salisbury man charged with possessing child porn

The State Bureau of Investigation charged a Salisbury man with possessing porn depicting young girls. Phillip Lee Vary, ...

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Blotter: Charlotte teen charged with felony marijuana possession

Police charged a Charlotte teen Tuesday with marijuana possession after responding to a disturbance at the former Hotel ...

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Police: Salisbury High gym vandalized

White paint and condoms were the remnants of what vandals left behind at Salisbury High School on Friday, ...

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Police looking into vandalism at Village Inn Pizza

Police aren’t sure if the people responsible for breaking two large windows at Village Inn Pizza were disgruntled ...

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