RFP Staff
♦ This morning in Rowan County Superior Court Billy Floyd Pless, Jr., 62, was convicted of felony habitual assault and was sentenced from 11 to 23 months in the state penitentiary. The felony habitual assault was based on an assault on a female who Pless struck with his wheelchair on a court elevator.
Superior Court Judge Stuart Albright referred to Pless as a “one-man crime wave” and that Pless went from bad to worse on the court date where he rammed the victim with his wheelchair in the halls of justice.
Pless expressed no remorse in addressing the court before sentencing, begging for mercy because of so many alleged health conditions, blaming the victim, and denying ever having hurt anyone—despite 5 convictions for A1 or more serious assault convictions, in a total of 30 prior convictions.
In giving Pless 11 to 23 months, Judge Albright said if he could have given the defendant more prison time, he would’ve done so.
The case’s prosecutor was Barrett O. Poppler and Pless’s defense attorney was Matt Barton.
In January of 2015 Pless, the “one-man crime wave” of Salisbury and Spencer, N.C. with a criminal record stretching back to 1982 and who is frequently seen tooling around Salisbury, N.C. in a motorized wheelchair, was 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 was said to have rammed Mrs. Hinson with his motorized wheelchair in an elevator.
In April of 2014 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 was 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 enshrined in this state offenders list:
**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**
