RFP Staff
♦ Billy Floyd Pless, Jr, 62, Spencer and Salisbury, N.C.’s “one man human crime wave” was charged with felony habitual assault based on prior assault convictions in 2003 and 2013 due Sheriff’s Office investigators having discussions with the Rowan District Attorney’s Office. Pless was also charged with probation violation. After receiving a $20,000 secured bond for the two charges, Pless was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center where he was since released. His next court date is scheduled January 16th.
From a previous Rowan Free Press Article on January 9th 2014 on Pless’s arrest:
Billy Floyd Pless, Jr., 62, of Spencer, N.C., a “one man crime wave” with a long criminal record stretching back to 1982 and who is frequently seen tooling around Salisbury, N.C. in a motorized wheelchair, is back in the Rowan County Detention Center. This time its for allegedly assaulting Karen “Kitty” Hinson, a courthouse bailiff’s wife, outside a courtroom where Pless just minutes before was placed on probation for communicating threats. Pless is said to have rammed Mrs. Hinson with his motorized wheelchair in an elevator.
In April of 2014 the unstoppable Billy Pless spoke at a Spencer Borough Alderman’s meeting where he demanded that police officers stop following him. During the same meeting he claimed he had been arrested 132 times since 1982 and felt police were harassing him. Increasing Pless’s legendary criminal status is his being observed motoring down I-85 in an electric wheelchair. During his previous assaults on women Pless is alleged to have popped a pimple on one woman’s face and cut the wart off another.
Pless’s unusual criminal history of assaults, trespasses, threats, disorderly conduct, and much more is partially enshrined in this state offenders list:
