RFP Staff
♦ Brandon Lee Rumple, 20, aka “The Menace” plead guilty to a lesser charge of attempted trafficking heroin and was convicted in Cabarrus County Court Thursday. He will receive 11 to 15 years in a state penitentiary.
Rumple still faces drug trafficking charges in Rowan County for which he has a court date upcoming in February. He remains in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $2.5 million dollar bond where he was recently busted for fashioning a “shank”.
“The Menace” has a long and florid record of drug related arrests in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties including:
• January 2012 was convicted of a delivery of a schedule I controlled substance.
• In April 2012 Rumple was arrested for possessing 200 grams of heroin in a Charlotte dwelling.
• In October 2012 he was arrested for attempting to discard 6.7 grams of heroin in a portable toilet while doing community service.
• In July 2013 he was charged with shooting a .380 pistol at two persons in his home during a dispute and for a possession of a firearm by a felon.
• In October 2013 he was arrested for probation violation and was charged with possessing drugs hidden in a balloon in his rectum.
• In March 2014 he missed a court date in Cabarrus County.
• In April 2014 he was charged with drug possession, resisting arrest, destroying criminal evidence, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
And more.
Some of the Menace’s misadventures recorded in the U.K. Daily Mail:
