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Jurors may be seated as early as Wednesday in the first degree murder trial of Leroy Moore Jr. Moore, 38, is alleged to have shot and killed Tony Baker during a shootout at the Sandy Ridge Apartments in October 2021. Baker was hit multiple times and transferred to New Hanover Regional, where he later died. Moore was arrested a month later in Fayetteville by the State Bureau of...
The registered sex offender and convicted felon caught Friday in Riegelwood was reportedly reaching for a firearm in his vehicle when he was arrested by deputies. Hugo Alberto Bautista-Gaspar is now facing deportation after being tried for crimes stretching back to 2008. Gaspar, 40, is being held under no bond on charges of first degree child sex offense, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen...
Deputies arrested a registered sex offender with a concealed handgun in his truck Friday. Hugo Alberto Bautista Gaspar, 40, with addresses in Riegelwood and Rose Hill was arrested on Old Stage Road. He was charged with two counts each of first degree sex offense with a child and sex offense by someone in a parental role; two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon; carrying a...