Public Safety

Jewelry and cash were taken from a Gilliard Road woman in an alleged robbery Aug. 25. Deputies responded to the home near Chadbourn on a disturbance call. Kayla Todd told the sheriff’s office that a man and woman she knows assaulted her, then stole $253 in cash, a silver necklace and two “ten carat” diamond rings, valued at a total of $2,000. Todd refused medical treatment, and said...

A detective working on another investigation ended up literally chasing down a new case just after midnight Monday morning.  Det. Paul Rockenbach was on Seven Creeks Highway in Nakina when he spotted a four-wheeler erratically heading south on the paved roadway. When the detective attempted to perform a traffics top, the sheriff’s office said, William Shane Rhodes allegedly fled down a dirt road into a path through a...