RFP Staff
♦ An intensive manhunt is underway in a wooded area in East Spencer, N.C. all afternoon for West Virginia Federal Prison escapee Randy Earl “Super” Asbury, 61, who allegedly robbed the NewBridge Bank at knifepoint Tuesday morning in Welcome, N.C. a town in Davidson County. Asbury showed a knife to the tellers and demanded money. He fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Since the robbery was reported, Davidson County Sherriff’s deputies followed Asbury’s getaway car, a dark green Saturn, down I-85 into Rowan County where it crashed and was abandoned near Exit 79 by a wooded area in East Spencer. The car belonged to a friend, but was taken without permission.
Since earlier this afternoon multiple law enforcement agencies joined in the search including the N.C. Highway Patrol, Rowan County Sheriff’s Department, East Spencer Police, Spencer Police, N.C. Department of Corrections, Landis Police, and the Salisbury Police. K-9’s with their handlers were seen going into the woods. N.C. State Highway Patrol choppers circled overhead. Sometime around 5 p.m. the search was suspended as evening approached.
Asbury is listed as escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer, a minimum security facility in Glenville, West Virginia on June the 24th when he failed to report to a Charlotte, N.C. halfway house. It said that Asbury is suffering from cancer and is not in good physical condition.
Asbury is described as a white male, standing 5 feet 7 inches tall, about 250 lbs with a stocky build, balding with thinning patches of gray hair and a long scraggy beard.
Asbury was convicted of a Davidson County bank Robbery in 2005 and as a teenager in 1970 he walked out of a minimum security facility. His N.C. record is here:
**This article will be updated as soon as more information is available**
