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♦ A man identified as Satesh Deo Buddhu, 41, from Hartford, Connecticut and a contract employee at Food Lion, was shot in an alley way by “Go Burrito” on West Fisher Street in Downtown Salisbury around 1 a.m. Thursday morning.  Sources at the scene allege the victim was bleeding badly from a neck wound in the throat area.

The Salisbury Police were dispatched to the area around “Go Burito” where shots were reported and after a brief search found the victim propping himself up against a white church van in the First United Methodist parking lot.

According to police sources Buddhu was standing in the alley behind “Go Burrito” when two Black males walked up on him and asked for money.  When Buddhu told them he had none, they snatched the chain around his neck and shot him with a handgun.

Buddhu was transported by an emergency vehicle to Carolinas Medical Center for surgery.  No official reports yet of the victim’s condition.

The Wells Fargo Lot by the “mural”, all along West Fisher Street quickly filled up with police vehicles.  Investigators poured over the crime scene area looking for evidence, shell casings, and speaking with persons in the area.

The two robbers were described as Black males and wearing dark clothing.

If you have any information about this shooting please contact Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.

The alley entrance, where the shooting took place, is directly across the street from the Wells Fargo Parking Lot Mural:

**This article will be updated all day as more information arrives.**

USAToday.Com

♦ House Passes Hudson Sponsored Bill Barring Syrian Refugees Without More Vetting:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/19/house-passes-bill-bar-syrian-refugees-us-without-more-vetting/76041668/

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♦ N.C. Connections Academy Dedicates Education Facility in Durham. N.C.’s Full-Time, Tuition-Free, Online Public Charter School Holds Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/11/prweb13091665.htm

Learn all about N.C. Connections Academy full-time, tuition-free, online public charter school’s programs at their website:

http://www.connectionsacademy.com/north-carolina-virtual-school

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♦ Antonio Javier Landers, 28, a security employee of the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive who thrilled both patrons and the readers of the RFP with his alleged dazzling knife work back in October in our article “Primal Knife Fight Turns Savage at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive in Salisbury, N.C. Early Friday” was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury (felony). Under a $1,500 secured bond, Landers was briefly in the Rowan County Detention Center before making bond.

October 30th Article “Primal Knife Fight Turns Savage at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive in Salisbury, N.C. Early Friday”:

“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 said to be working security.

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.

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:

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♦ No this was not an episode from “Beavis n’ Butthead”.  Imagine how Garrett Loftin, 23, an Enerco sub-contractor inspecting Duke Energy power poles on the 100 block of Buccaneer Circle in Salisbury felt when he heard the back-to-back report of a shotgun and pellets striking nearby trees.  His adrenalin pulsing, he looked around and saw two men standing on a mobile home porch at 185 Buccaneer Circle.  One, later identified as Caleb Louden Spencer Heffner, 18, of 185 Buccaneer Circle, held a Mossberg shotgun.

The hardscrabble neighborhood made up of a jumble of kit and mobile homes with mud rutted lawns, now seemed strangely distant to the pole inspector as he hurried to his truck.

Loftin, in his truck, noticed Zachary Honeycutt walking up on him from the house.  His face appeared serious.  “Whatcha doin’ down here?”

“Just doing my job,” replied Loftin.  “Why’d he shoot at me?”  He eyed Heffner on the porch.

“That’s the way we do things around here,” said Honeycutt.

Loftin drove away.  He called 911 dispatch and reported the incident and the two men.

When Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies showed up at Buccaneer Circle, they were met by a neighbor who allegedly witnessed Heffner firing his shotgun in Loftin’s direction.

Later Heffner and Honeycutt claimed they shot at a squirrel.

Records showed the shotgun was stolen.

Heffner was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon (misdemeanor).  Under $2,500 secured  bond, he was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center.  He was since released on bond.

Caleb Louden Heffner (below):

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♦ According to a Landis Police Department report: An armed robbery took place just prior to midnight Friday. Three male subjects, shown in the security cam stills below, stormed into Sonny’s Supplies, located on North Cannon Blvd. in Landis, N.C. Armed with handguns and a sawed-sawed off shotgun, the three men robbed not only the business, but also a patron inside the popular convenience store. They helped themselves to the patron’s wallet containing an undisclosed sum of money.

Thankfully no injuries occurred. The trio fled in a small dark colored passenger car and headed South on US 29. Consider them armed and dangerous.

If you can identify any of the subjects, or have any information related to the robbery, please contact Captain Hosey at 704-857-2129, email to RHOSEY@LANDISPOLICE.COM, or via a Facebook message to the Landis Police Department.

Chuck Hughes, Seat 5 Representative, Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education

♦ The seven-member Board of Education (BOE) had long and deep discussions on the issue of who should or should not be on the plaque in the Central Office Building (COB). One option was to put only the 2014-2016 board members and County Commissioners (CCs) on the plaque. Another was to include members of the 2012-2014 board and CCs who were not reelected. This option came in two flavors – a single plaque containing the names of the current BOE and CCs followed by the names of the 2012-2014 board members and CCs in smaller lettering.

Since I felt strongly that Mrs. Kay Norman deserved recognition for her 20 plus years of service on the BOE, I made a motion to add a stand-alone plaque with her name and tenure. When my motion failed, I joined three others and voted for what I believed to be the next best thing – the multi-board-member option.

Media articles, as well as emails I received and conversations I had with the community, were critical of the board’s decision to add previous board members to the plaque. The argument was, “since there were so many others who ‘fought for the COB’, it would not be fair to exclude them. Therefore, only the names of the current board should be displayed.” I challenged this assertion. While it is true that previous boards, over many years, “discussed” the COB and its importance to downtown Salisbury, it was not until the members of the 2012-2016 board took action, despite my resistance, that shovels were finally put in the ground.

Since both the COB and the plaque are now history, let’s not quibble over whose names should be or not to be on a plaque. We now need to move on to more important school issues.

RFP Staff

♦ Salisbury High School Students Caroline Parrot and Matt Woolly Speak about Salisbury, N.C.’s “Horrific” Poverty before the Rowan County Commissioners on November 16th:

Steve Mensing, Editor

♦ “Every man a King.” Huey “Kingfish” Long, the Louisiana Governor who dreamed of redistributing the wealth, whose cronies “hepped” themselves to vast fortunes in state taxpayer money, and who was capped by an assassin’s bullet during the Great Depression on his way to the White House.

Many of our readers are following the squatter acquisition of a high-end manse in Charlotte’s Piper Glen by Ninti El Bey and nine others utilizing Moorish Science Temple methods and its assortment of legal loopholes. Whether you root for underdogs, enjoy delving into the offbeat, harbor fantasies of becoming a diplomat for the Indigenous Nations, or wanted to act on your most florid fantasies–the legal paperwork of the Moorish Science Temple Playbook.

If you somehow missed the Piper Glen “acquisition” here is an excellent article:

http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article45208800.html

The Moorish Science Temple Playbook:

http://www.rvbeypublications.com/id130.html

http://www.moorishnationpublicrecords.com/

RFP Staff

♦ Miranda Gail Waggoner, 22, of East Rowan, an alleged Meece Brothers Accomplice, was arrested Friday at 618 Poole Road on new charges stemming from an alleged breaking and entering on Garrick Road in November.

Currently Waggoner is charged with breaking and entering-building (felony), larceny (felony), larceny (misdemeanor), larceny of firearm (felony), obtaining property by false pretenses (felony), and injury to personal property (misdemeanor). Under a $125,000 secured bond, she is currently being held in the Rowan County Detention Center.

November 18th and November 10th RFP articles about the Meece Brothers and Miranda Gail Waggoner:

Joshua Meece, 28, the last of the Meece Brothers on the Rowan County Sheriff’s Most Wanted list, was arrested in the early morning hours at 488 Moon River Road outside of Salisbury, N.C. Charged with Breaking and entering–building (felony), burglary (first degree) (felony), and failure to appear/comply (misdemeanor), he is now in the Rowan County Detention Center. He is under a secured bond of $102,500.

Here is the November 10th article on the Meece Brothers Alleged Salisbury area burglaries:

“Updated: John Cristopher Meece turned himself in Wednesday November 11th to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office.

Recently added to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Most Wanted List, Joshua Lee Meece, 28, of Forest Winds Drive in Spencer and his brother John Cristopher Meece, 23, of Salisbury are being sought for two alleged Salisbury area burglaries taking place on Friday evening. Their alleged accomplice in Friday’s burglaries Miranda Gail Waggoner, 22, was arrested Monday on Poole Road in East Rowan and charged with breaking and entering-building (felony). Under a secured $5,000 bond, Waggoner was in the Rowan County Detention Center before she made bond.

Deputies responded to a break-in at a Garrick Road home around 11:45 p.m. Friday. An 82 year-old woman was at home at the time of the break-in and hid in her bathroom when she heard someone breaking in. Fearful of what was happening in her home, she later discovered when she ventured outside the bathroom that her TV was missing.

A second break-in occured on Garrick Road and the two break-ins were linked. The Meece Brothers and Waggoner were now viewed as suspects.

Both Meece Brothers would be charged with breaking and entering-building (felony). Joshua Meese would be additionally charged with first degree burglary (felony).”

Joshua Lee Meece’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1061306&searchLastName=meece&searchFirstName=joshua&searchMiddleName=l&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

John Christopher Meece’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1123101&searchLastName=Meece&searchFirstName=John&searchMiddleName=c&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

The updated Rowan County Sheriff’s Office MOST WANTED LIST:

http://rowanfreepress.com/2015/11/04/updated-rowan-county-n-c-sheriffs-office-most-wanted-list-2/

If you have any information about the Meece Brothers please call Lt. Chad Moose at 704-216-8687 or Detective Rodney Mahaley at 704-216-8711.

Joshua Lee Meece:

John Christopher Meece:

Miranda Gail Waggoner:

RFP Staff

♦ Whether its panhandlers battling over a 40 Ouncer in the Wilco Hess lot on Salisbury’s East Innes or dude-man fighting for his woman’s rep in Rock Bottom’s parking lot, the knife is always SHOTZBURY’s top choice over a broken beer bottle, an ice pick, or brass knuckles.  Hands down.

Here are Three of the Best Fighting Knives Made. All Available from U.S. Made Blade in Salisbury, N.C. at 320 North Main Street or their Online Presence: http://usamadeblade.com/

Buck 119 Special:

Ka-Bar USA Fighter Knife:

Spartan Blades Harsey Difensa Black:

Four Knife Fighting Classics:

Folsome Prison Knife Fighting Manual (Pdf):

http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/PRISON%20FIGHTING%20AND%20WEAPONS/Knife%20Fighting%20Manual.pdf

Bloody Brazilian Knife Fighting Techniques (pdf):

http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/PRISON%20FIGHTING%20AND%20WEAPONS/Bloody-Brazilian-Knife-Fighting-Techniques.pdf

Knife Fighting Manual (PDF):

http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/PRISON%20FIGHTING%20AND%20WEAPONS/Knife%20Fighting%20Manual.pdf

Sicillian Stiletto Fighting (Pdf):

http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/PRISON%20FIGHTING%20AND%20WEAPONS/Sicilian-Stiletto-Fighting.pdf

RFP Staff

♦ Mama always told us never drive high and those ladies from MADD you know what they say. Some of us are armed with a little “common sense” about what to do with the keys on a Saturday when we’ve had one too many or worse. Messing around with drugs behind the wheel ain’t such a good idea either. Then a report comes across our desk about Christopher Michael Reece, 20 of Salisbury allegedly involved in a wreck Saturday night.

Reece, already on the hook for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a previous Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) charge, allegedly ran a red light at Jake Alexander Boulevard and Old Concord Road and smashed into another vehicle, causing damage.

The Salisbury Police quickly determined that Reece, who allegedly appeared disoriented, needed to be evaluated at Novant Health Rowan Regional Medical Center with a blood test. Adding to Reece’s mounting dilemma were the allegations that 4 grams of Marijuana and brass knuckles were found in his car. Uh oh.

Sometimes trouble piles on trouble. After his arrest Saturday night, Reece was charged with carry a concealed weapon (misdemeanor), possession control substance schedule VI (misdemeanor), possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor), driving while impaired (misdemeanor), failure to appear/comply (misdemeanor), failure to stop at a stoplight (misdemeanor), and failure to yield from driveways or alleys (misdemeanor).

Under a secured $10,000 bond, Reece remains in the Rowan County Detention Center.

RFP Staff

♦ It’s that time of the year again in a city getting drubbed by crime when Salisbury’s criminal element are out in force not only in Downtown Salisbury, but in its many communities to take advantage of seniors, women, the less physically able, and those alone on foot.  It is during the Holiday season when a dramatic upswing in purse snatchings, street assaults, ATM stick ups, car jackings,  and armed robberies rise.

Monday, a shopper at Big Lots, had her purse snatched out of her shopping cart before the thief took fled through the front doors.  The purse snatcher was described as being a Black male in his late teens, having short dreads, and sporting a dark hoodie.

It is advised if you come Downtown, remain alert and aware of your surroundings, come armed, do not walk on side streets and avoid parking lots.  Use a bank to withdraw cash and avoid banking at ATMs Downtown during the holidays.  These are spots where people get held up.  If you do banking never bank alone.

Car lots are especially prime targets for carjackers and armed robbers.

Large chain stores in Salisbury are problematic even though they have security and loss prevention.  Rarely will they physically intercede if a crime is in progress.  Local stores also offer little protection for a crime in progress.

Never tote a handbag in public during the holiday shopping season.  Find some secure method for secreting your cash on your person.

Do not respond to male panhandlers as they might want something more than a handout.  Most street muggings start with a seemingly innocent plea for money before a sucker punch connects hard with the target’s face followed by a stomping.

RFP Staff

♦ Sometime around 9 p.m. Sunday Joshua Blackwelder, 27, of 120 Harris Point Road in Rowan County walked out to his driveway with the intention of returning a moped to a friend.  Somewhere off in the distance the grass rustled in the wind.  Blackwelder noticed a human form standing in the darkness at the end of his driveway.  A male carefully raised a pistol and squeezed off several shots. The reports and the brilliant light of their muzzle flashes sent adrenalin surging through Blackwelder.   He sprinted low through the darkness toward his front door and safety.  The thud of bullets could be heard as they struck his home in rapid succession.

Through the doorway now. Blackwelder came eye-to-eye with his girlfriend and her two children.  “Get on the floor,” he said.  “Crawl to the back bedroom.”

The firing ended almost as quickly as it began.  Blackwelder had no idea what brought the stranger to his house or why he was a target for killing.  He later described the shooter to Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies as male of medium to heavy build weighing about 185 lbs.  In the darkness it was difficult to discern the shooter’s complexion.  He drove a maroon vehicle and kept his headlights off as he drove away from the scene.

A neighbor of Blackwelder’s witnessed a male standing by a maroon vehicle by Harris Point Road.  When the shooting ended, he saw the man hunker down and return to his vehicle before it disappeared in the darkness down the road.

Rowan County Sheriff’s investigators have a mystery to solve.  They found 7 .40 caliber shell casings on the ground by the road and 7 bullet holes in the house’s exterior wall and a wooden fence near the house.  2 slugs were lodged in backpacks hanging behind the front door and a third was found in a book.

Did  a hitman pay a visit?  A deranged individual with a gun randomly choosing 120 Harris Point Road?  Someone harboring a grudge?

A bloated moon tonight and Rowan County has a mystery.

Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate

♦ Veterans, Walgreens has partnered with the VA to provide flu shots to veterans at NO CHARGE with proper ID.

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♦ Luther Sterling Blakeley, 33, Rowan County felon and much convicted breaking and entry artist, was arrested Monday November 23rd by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office for an alleged string of October 7th motor vehicle break-ins occurring in 3 Rockwell neighborhoods. 16 alleged Rockwell motor vehicle break-ins took place on the 200 block of Graceland Place, the 1400 block of Oak Grove Lane, and the 400 block of Adrian Place. A Smith & Wesson .380 caliber pistol and an .45 Caliber pistol were among the valuables allegedly removed from the vehicles.

Blakeley became a suspect in the case and when the two firearms reported stolen on October 7th motor vehicle break-in spree were found in his possession, the wheels of justice moved forward.

Blakely was charged with 16 counts of vehicle breaking and entering (felony), larceny (misdemeanor), 2 counts of larceny of a firearm (felony), weapons possession by a convicted felon (felony).

Luther Sterling Blakeley’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0634554&searchLastName=blakeley&searchFirstName=luther&searchMiddleName=s&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

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♦ Last night Ronald Earl “Ronnie” Martin, 22, of Woodleaf and a mechanic in the North Carolina National Guard, was shot in the stomach on Foster Road.

As various sources reported the shooting’s details, it appears that Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to Needmore Road in Woodleaf on a call around 9 p.m. about a man shot there.  When deputies arrived, they were informed by the mother of the wounded man Ronnie Martin and his brother Daquon Martin, 24, of Woodleaf, stopped by the home to call 911.  Daquon drove his wounded brother to Davis Hospital in Iredell County.  Later Ronnie Martin was transported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the stomach.  The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reported Ronnie is in good condition.

Details about the shooting were sketchy due to an alleged lack of cooperation on the part of the brothers. The shooting is currently said to have taken place on Foster Road although an exact address is unclear.  Daquon allegedly drove to Foster Road to “hang out” with his brother.  Daquan found his brother on Foster Road where Ronnie informed him he was shot.

The shooting remains under investigation.  There are no known motives or suspects at this time.

If you have any information about the shooting you are urged to call Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Detectives at 704-216-8711.

Ronnie Martin:

Daquon Martin:

**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**

The 200 Block of Needmore Road in Woodleaf (below):

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♦ The Landis, N.C. Police Department Reports this update about last Friday’s Sunny’s Supplies armed robbery:

“Suspects identified in Armed Robbery – Warrants issued.

After an extensive investigation, the Landis Police Department has identified & obtained warrants on Dominic Deon Brookins, 34, and Ricky Leon Tolson, 22, for the armed robbery Friday at Sonny’s Supplies.

This afternoon, LPD investigators obtained arrest warrants on both subjects charging them with the robbery, and a search warrant for their residence South of Concord in Cabarrus County. Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office investigators & SRT members assisted in serving the warrant at the residence. Unfortunately, the subjects appeared to have fled the area, however a significant amount of evidence was recovered at the residence.

Both suspects are considered ARMED & DANGEROUS. Do NOT attempt to apprehend them – call 911 immediately should you encounter them.

The third suspect, shown wearing the black hoodie in the security video, has yet to be positively identified. Anyone having any information regarding his identity is asked to contact the Landis Police Department via email to INBOX@LANDISPOLICE.COM.

We would like to thank the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office for their invaluable assistance in this investigation – they are truly a first-class organization.” Capt. Hosey, LPD.