Committee to Save Our Rowan-Salisbury Public Schools

♦ We are asking all concerned citizens and parents to come to Monday’s Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting at 5 p.m. at the Long Street Board Room at 110 South Long Street in East Spencer and let your voices be heard loud and clear.  If you are disgusted with our local sham public school education weighed down by many low performing schools (D’s and F’s), then it is time to let them have it about our extreme displeasure in one of the worst performing school systems in the State of North Carolina.  No more excuses!  No more Cover-ups!  No more pushing high-priority school system needs aside so they can build cushy domed buildings at great public expense and at the expense of our children’s education.

Come and be heard loud and clear Monday at the public hearing on the school system’s alleged plan to deal with the school systems “low-performing schools” (All those many D and F Schools).  Accept no soft-soaping from our superintendent whose record of mediocrity continues intact from the York County School District in South Carolina.

Citizens and parents living within the confines of Salisbury ought to be especially enraged as their abysmal schools achieved grades no higher than D or F and got worse this year.

Hurl back the night!

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♦ Angel Dejesus “Cheezy” Arias, 23, a Latin Kings gang member formerly of Salisbury, was transported back Friday to Salisbury to face justice for the alleged brutal blunt force murder of  transgender woman Elisha Maurice Walker, 20, from Salisbury.  The pair were alleged to be hanging out daily at Arias’s residence at 121 Hemlock Drive in Salisbury up until Elisha Maurice Walker’s disappearance.  Many believe Walker met her end in Salisbury, although law enforcement has not yet confirmed this.

Charged with first degree murder (felony) and larceny of a motor vehicle (felony), Arias is now in the Rowan County Detention Center after being transferred from the Johnston County Jail.

Under a secured $50,000 bond for the larceny of motor vehicle (felony), Arias has no bail set for 1st degree murder charge.

From the August 14th, 2015 Rowan Free Press article on Arias’s arrest in Johnston County, N.C.:

“Elisha Maurice Walker, 20, a transgender woman from Salisbury missing since November 2014, was found dead Thursday in a shallow grave in a wooded area behind a house on Homestead Lane in Johnston County. Walker’s body was identified by her physical description and personal property.

Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies arrested and charged Angel Arias, 23, an alleged Latin Kings gang member who lived up until February of 2015 at 121 Hemlock Drive in Salisbury, with Walker’s homicide.

Walker was reported missing by her family after family and friends lost contact with her in late October. Walker, prior to her disappearance, kept regular contact with her family and friends phone calls, texts, and Facebook, but all that stopped in late October and her family became alarmed.

Walker’s 2000 silver Pontiac Sunfire was found burned near the town of Clinton in Sampson County, N.C. The fire appeared intentionally set. Not long after Angel Arias, who formerly lived at 121 Hemlock Drive in Salisbury, became a “person of interest” in Walker’s disappearance. In early August the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office was alerted that Arias was being held on drug charges in the Johnston County Jail. Right about that time a house on Homestead Lane near Smithfield in Johnston County was identified as a possible location for Walker’s body.

Thursday investigators found Walker’s body in a shallow grave in woods behind the house on Homestead Lane. Soon after Walker was IDed and brought to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Raleigh for an autopsy and final positive ID. Its said that she likely died of a blunt force trauma. No motive is known for the killing.

Arias, awaiting transport back to Rowan County, was charged with murder (felony) and larceny of a motor vehicle (felony). He is currently being held without bond in the Johnston County Jail.

Angel D. Arias Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1211488&searchLastName=arias&searchFirstName=angel&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

The Late Elisha Maurice Walker:

Angel Arias (below):

Previous articles about Elisha Maurice Walker:

http://rowanfreepress.com/2014/11/25/missing-salisbury-n-c-person-elisha-maurice-walkers-car-was-found-completely-burned-in-clinton-n-c/

http://rowanfreepress.com/2014/11/17/missing-person-elisha-maurice-walker-20-missing-since-october-23rd/

Youtube/WTVI-PBS/Charlotte/Carolina Impact

♦ Video: N.C. Connections Academy: an Online State Approved Virtual School for Homeschoolers Desiring Classroom Structure. Like all Public Education it is Tuition Free.  Meet the Principal of N.C. Connections Academy: Nathan Currie:

Todd Paris, Attorney and Candidate for Salisbury, City Council

♦ Video: Todd TV–Fibrant Magic Math.  Learn how the current Salisbury, N.C. City Council is Hiding over $1 Million Dollars in Annual TAXPAYER Subsidies to Fibrant:

Video: “Magic Math Theater” with City Councilman Maggie Blackwell and former Interim City Manager John Sofley Defending Fibrant’s “Turning the Corner”:

Public Announcement

♦ Fund Raising Event in Honor and Support of N.C. Representative Carl Ford (District 76) at Gary’s BBQ on Thursday, October 29th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.:

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♦ Sadly the RFP learned that Concord will be kicking Salisbury-Rowan Utilities (SRU) to the curb to purchase water inexpensively from Albemarle’s super new water facility in 2016.  Kudos to Albemarle and their consumer-oriented approach to water.  Too bad Salisbury got greedy and blew the multi-million dollar account with Concord.  So much for Salisbury’s alleged regionalism.

Here is an excellent article found on City of Kannapolis’s website discussing Albemarle’s new state-of-the-art water plant:

http://www.kannapolisnc.gov/Community/News/tabid/95/ID/27/Cities-Celebrate-Completion-of-ConcordKannapolis-Albemarle-Water-Line.aspx

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♦ Seems like last week Johnathan Cory Yarborough, 29, just showed up on the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office’s Most Wanted List and now he’s in the Rowan County Detention Center awaiting trial.  Give Yarborough an A for effort.  What better place to hide out than in a nest of thieves, murderers on the loose, forked-tongued city councilmen, and the loyal subjects of “King Heroin”: SHOTZBURY AKA Salisbury, N.C. On second thought Yarborough must’ve stuck out with all those facial and neck tats. Those “teardrop” tats generally mean their wearer “wasted” someone inside of prison. Do we have a pretender here?

Yarborough’s string ran out and he was arrested Sunday at 224 Geiger Lane in Salisbury. Allegedly he tried to hide under a bed to elude the deputies, but Yarborough should know better. Under beds and in closets are some of the first places law enforcement officers check. To further compound his troubles Yarborough was alleged to possess a syringe full of heroin and a firearm (felons are not supposed to have these…even in Shotzbury).

Yarborough is charged with resist/delay/obstruct a public officer (misdemeanor), weapons possession by felon of firearms etc. prohibited (misdemeanor), Possession of control substance schedule I (felony), maintain a dwelling/vehicle for controlled substance (misdemeanor), and possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor).

Under a secured $35,000 bond, Yarborough remains in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Jonathan Cory Yarborough’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0798897&searchLastName=yarborough&searchFirstName=jonathan&searchMiddleName=c&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Public Announcement

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S.S. Shotzbury

♦ Maggie We Gotta Find a SCAPEGOAT! We Can’t Just Say We Didn’t Know!

Todd TV

♦ Todd TV: The Other Hidden Costs of Fibrant. What Else could Salisbury City Council better Spend the $1,000,000 Dollars a Year of Taxpayer Money used to Covertly Subsidize Fibrant?:

RFP Staff

♦ Tuesday, sometime after 4 a.m., Charlie Thomas Black, 35, of Torbush Road in Salisbury, was reported to be on his way to Sheetz in his wife’s green Ford F-150 pickup to purchase a pizza. While waiting at a stop sign at McCanless and Bringle Ferry Roads, two cars slid up beside Black and two Black males, brandishing handguns, got out and approached the victim’s pickup. Black, in survival mode, climbed out and told the pair of armed carjackers the pickup was theirs.  No hassle. Smart basic survival move. Why resist and become another “unsolved murder” in the Bury?

The carjackers allegedly turned left onto Bringle Ferry Road and sped off into the darkness.

Still shaken by the incident, Black walked to an area nursing home “Autumn Care” where the lights were still on and pounded on the door. Soon Rowan County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the scene.

Black’s wife took a taxi to meet her husband and return him home.  Allegedly she scolded him for being out so late. Sheetz isn’t known for serving pizza to “die for”.

The crime remains under investigation. At this time the green Ford F-150 pickup has not been recovered.

In you have any information about this carjacking contact Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.

The Victim Charlie Thomas Black:

Anti-Carjacking Tips 101:

Todd Paris, Attorney and Candidate for Salisbury’s City Council

♦ Video: Todd TV–Fibrant’s Dangerous Secret.  The truth about Fibrant’s “run and gun” installation (done carelessly in a hurry) that endangers linesmen and may cost the City of Salisbury an estimated $4 million dollars to revisit and fix.

The Tragic Electrocution Death of a Linesman in 1889:

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♦ Christopher Ramon-Sanchez, 24, from Rowan County was arrested Tuesday for alleged sex crimes with a 14 year-old girl while smoking marijuana at various locations around Salisbury and for allegedly contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The alleged sex acts with the underage girl were said to have taken place in September when the youngster was supposed to be attending school.

Ramon-Sanchez was arrested and charged with 11 counts of statutory rape/sex with a 13/14/15 year-old by a defendant six years older (felony), 6 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 1 count of violation of a 50B order (misdemeanor). More charges may be upcoming.

Under a $250,000 secured bond, Ramon-Sanchez is in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Anyone with information pertinent to this case is quested to call the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and ask to speak to a detective at 704-216-8704.

Christopher Ramon-Sanchez Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1376517&searchLastName=ramon-sanchez&searchFirstName=Christopher&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

RFP Staff

♦ Suspected West Rowan Break-in Kings, Masiah Claybrook, 21, and his sidekick Allan Jerome Gooden, 58, were arrested Tuesday at their residence at 5440 U.S. Highway 601 in Salisbury.  The pair were tagged with several alleged recent break-ins in West Rowan where firearms and electronics were reported stolen.

Masiah Claybrook was charged with breaking and entering a building (felony), larceny of a firearm (felony), and stolen property-buying/receiving (felony).

Under a $10,000 secured bond, Claybrook is in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Allan Jerome Gooden was charged with stolen property-buying/receiving (felony), possessing stolen goods (felony), and weapons possession by a felon of firearms etc. prohibited (felony)

Under a $15,000 secured bond, Gooden remains in the Rowan County Detention Center.  Additional charges may be pending.

Gooden’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0149530&searchLastName=gooden&searchFirstName=allan&searchMiddleName=j&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

If you have information about these break-ins and those involved, please call Detective Travis Allen (704) 216-8715 or Lt. Chad Moose (704) 216-8687.

Alan Jerome Gooden:

Masiah Claybrook:

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♦ Pazazu Algarad (John Lawson), 36, the alleged white cannibal and Satanist who put Salisbury, N.C. briefly on the map in 2014, died Wednesday in Raleigh’s Central Prison from an apparent suicide. 

Who can ever forget Algarad’s 2nd place finish in the Rowan Free Press’s Poll for “2014 News Maker of the Year” behind Donald Ray Morgan, the convicted terrorist and ISIS disciple who founded the Islamic Center of Salisbury and landed in the national spotlight.  Third place went to former Salisbury City Manager Doug Paris.

Algarad’s lifeless form was found in his cell by prison personnel just before dawn on Wednesday morning.  The alleged white cannibal and Satanist was in Raleigh’s Central Prison awaiting trial on charges of murdering Joshua Wetzler of Salisbury and depositing his remains in a shallow grave by a swimming pool behind Algarad’s “house of horrors” on Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons, N.C.  Algarad’s “house of horrors” later was condemned and demolished.

Will Salisbury’s City Hall fly a pentagram flag at half mast on Thursday in honor of Algarad? Or will the city go with a more traditional “Jolly Roger” better suited to City Hall’s statewide reputation? Perhaps Downtown Salisbury Inc. might rename this Saturday night’s festivities after the city’s adopted son “Pazazu Algarad’s Halloween Hunt”.

Below are a collection of retrospective articles and videos in the Rowan Free Press of Salisbury’s fleeting nationwide moment of fame with the man who allegedly stalked its streets for human quarry:

http://rowanfreepress.com/2015/08/10/new-documentary-video-pazuzu-algarad-the-alleged-white-cannibal-who-put-salisbury-n-c-on-the-map/

http://rowanfreepress.com/2014/10/14/salisbury-n-c-s-joshua-wetzler-missing-since-2009-allegedly-murdered-by-suspected-serial-killer-pazuzu-algarad/

http://rowanfreepress.com/2014/12/13/poll-who-was-salisbury-n-c-s-major-newsmaker-in-2014-pazuzu-algarad-doug-paris-donald-ray-morgan/

Todd Paris, Attorney and Candidate for Salisbury City Council

♦ Video: Todd TV–Salisbury Rowan Utilities: Some More Hidden Truths about What’s Keep Fibrant Afloat:

RFP/U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina

♦ Some persons will recall Daniel H. Williford, 57, when he lived in Salisbury and boasted of being an “inventor”, a U.S. Airways pilot, and a businessman promoting the wireless internet provider “Velocenet”.  Those who recall him, will remember his easy-breezy style perfectly fitted to a town brimming with glib talking sociopaths, music men, and dupes galore.  What better place for a con artist than the “Bury”?  Smug and self-assured, Williford was destined for “bigger things”.  Those “bigger things” arrived Tuesday when Williford got slammed with 9 plus years in a Federal can.  Below is a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina:

CHARLOTTE, NC—Daniel H. Williford, 57, of Fleetwood, N.C. was sentenced on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 to 110 months in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded nearly 100 investors, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Williford to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $17,915,013.35 as restitution.

U.S. Attorney Rose is joined in making today’s announcement by John A. Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in North Carolina.

According to filed court documents and statements made in court, from January 2007 through July 2013, Williford operated a fraudulent investment scheme, through which he obtained more than $44 million from over 200 investors in Charlotte and elsewhere, causing nearly $18 million in losses to more than 100 investors by the time the scheme collapsed. Court records show that Williford lied to his victims, promising their money would be invested in wireless Internet equipment, Internet towers, and other facilities and companies. According to court records, rather than investing the victims’ money as promised, Williford used the majority of the funds to run a Ponzi-style scheme and used a portion to fund his personal lifestyle. Court records show that over course of the fraud, Williford invested only $7.7 million of the victims’ money and used approximately $32 million to pay some of his victims’ supposed “profits” on their investments and to cover personal expenses.

Court records also show that even after Williford ceased having any legitimate business operations, he continued to solicit money from investors for several years. One victim told the court yesterday evening that he was Williford’s co-pilot in a commercial airliner, and that Williford had literally defrauded him on the runway before takeoff. Other victims spoke about being unable to retire, declaring bankruptcy, losing children’s college savings, and one victim told the court he would have to sell his businesses, jeopardizing the jobs of over 50 employees as a result of the fraud. Williford pleaded guilty to securities fraud in July 2014.

Judge Cogburn said that Williford’s lengthy sentence was intended to “frighten those who will think about doing this, to make them think twice about stealing other people’s money” and to make such people realize “that going to prison for that long is not worth it.” Judge Cogburn also noted that the victims “will suffer a long time,” and pointed to the “callousness and huge period of time in which [Williford] took these people’s money” as a basis for the sentence.

The FBI investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Ryan of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte prosecuted the case.

The charges were brought in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices, and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Since fiscal year 2009, the Justice Department has filed over 18,000 financial fraud cases against more than 25,000 defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit http://www.StopFraud.gov.”

The Immortal Charles Ponzi:

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♦ Rowan-Cabarrus Community College North Campus is now under lock-down after 2 p.m.  All students, faculty, and staff are told to remain where they are, or get to a secure location as security investigates the situation. There were reports of gun shots in the woods behind the Building 400 area. Salisbury Police are on the scene investigating the wooded area.

**This report will be updated as more information becomes available.**

Steve Mensing, Editor/Photos by Mike Caskey, Todd Paris, Carl Ford

♦ Thursday night a large crowd of Rowan and Cabarrus County luminaries packed Gary’s BBQ in China Grove to attend a dinner honoring their friend N.C. Rep. Carl Ford (District 76).  Among the packed house were Commissioner Mike Caskey, Commissioner Craig Pierce, Commission Chairman Greg Edds, School Board members Dean Hunter and Chuck Hughes, Attorneys Todd Paris (Candidate for Salisbury City Council) and Jeff Morris, Rep. Harry Warren, Rep. Larry Pittman, Rep. Tim Moore, Rep. Mike Hagar, Former Commission Chairman Jim Sides, John Leatherman, Joe Coladarci, and many others.

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♦ The tidal wave of Salisbury violence has not dampened. It appears to merely have changed weaponry. Salisbury Police were dispatched to the Novant Health Rowan Medical Center ER at about 1:40 A.M. after two knife fighters showed up after their hell-for-leather tiff at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive. The two participants in the ancient combat sport of knife fighting were identified as Daulon Ivra Sampson, 28, of Statesville Blvd. in Salisbury, who was a Firewater patron, and Antonio Landers of Salisbury, a Firewater employee.

Sampson, suffering brutal knife wounds to his face and chest and badly bloodied, was transported, after his Novant ER experience, by helicopter to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.

Landers suffered from a badly gashed pinky finger that exposed bone.

It’s alleged, yet unsubstantiated by sources, that the two knife fighters knew each other from Georgia.

At this time the investigation continues and no charges are yet filed.

Daulon Ivra Sampson is no stranger to the Salisbury knife fighting scene. In April he was involved in a knife and broken bottle scuffle at the grocery store across from the Livingstone College campus with Javion Scott who allegedly stabbed Sampson in the leg, leaving a gash 4 to 5 inches long. Scott was later arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

Pictured below is Daulon Ivra Sampson:

**This story will be updated as soon as new information arrives.**