RFP Staff
**Updated: Bobby Ray “Peanut” Cabe was captured this evening by Deputies from the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office with help of a K-9 named “Valor”. “Valor” inflicted a bite on “Peanut” which led to the escapee being hospitalized. “Peanut” is expected to recover and return to the Davidson County Jail.**
♦ Bobby Ray “Peanut” Cabe, Jr., 40, jailed for the armed robberies of CVS Drugstores in Salisbury and Rockwell, broke out of the Davidson County Jail at around 12:45 a.m. Monday. “Peanut” was placing trash bags in a jail house dumpster when he made his bid. A few minutes later he shed his orange jumpsuit near the Lexington County Cemetery a few blocks from where he was locked up.
According to Davidson County sources, Cabe, after dumping the trash, used a ladder to get on the courthouse roof which he ran across and jumped to the ground. From that point on
Cabe is 5’9, weighs 190 lbs., has long hair, and numerous tats. His last garb was a white t-shirt, soiled white long johns, white socks, and flip-flop “jail” shoes.
At the moment local law enforcement is focusing the hunt in Lexington County around the jail. His escape area is likely to expand with each hour of he is out.
If you are in Davidson County call 911 or the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office at 336-242-2105. As the hours progress, he could travel to the Charlotte area or to Rowan County. If you sight him in Rowan County or Salisbury, call 911 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245. Consider him armed and dangerous
Cabe has previously escaped from other prisons. Cabe was recently moved to the Davidson County Jail from the Forsyth County Jail.
From a Previous RFP article on “Peanut” Cabe’s armed robberies of Salisbury and Rockwell CVS Drugstores:
“Bobby Ray “Peanut” Cabe, Jr., 40, of Dot Road in Thomasville, N.C, was charged with armed robbery of a Salisbury CVS Pharmacy at 1702 E. Innes Street on January 9th and another CVS stick-up in Rockwell, N.C. in December. More recently Cabe was arrested for a robbery gone bad at a Winston-Salem Walgreens Pharmacy on January 29th. Cabe was collared along with Mathew Greer, 31, and Kimberly Ann Hughes after Cabe jumped off the 40 foot high Salem Lake Bridge and sustained injuries.
During the January Salisbury CVS Pharmacy robbery Cabe wore a camo jacket, a black hat, and brandished a silver-plated revolver when he allegedly held a gun three employees. Cabe was said to have forced a CVS employee to open 2 safes and turn over Oxycodone and Opana pills.
In the Rockwell CVS robbery in December the robber wore a camo jacket and pants and brandished a black handgun. The bandit made off on foot with a variety of pharmaceuticals.
Salisbury Police charged Cabe with felony robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony possession of a firearm by a felon. He is currently in Forsyth County Jail on a $350,000 secured bond awaiting a court date on February 19th 2015.
Cabe owns an extensive criminal record:
