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Published: September 3, 2008
Local insurance agent is charged
A Winston-Salem insurance agent has been charged with one felony count of obtaining property by false pretense, the N.C. Department of Insurance said yesterday.
Christopher Day Church Jr. of 1840 Salem Bluff Drive turned himself in at the Guilford County's magistrate's office on Friday. Church, a licensed insurance agent, was released on a written promise to appear in court.
According to the insurance department, Church represented himself as the agent of record and forged a colleague's signature on a life-insurance policy with Genworth Life Insurance Co. to receive about $1,100 in commissions on the sale.
The state insurance department is also conducting an administrative investigation into the case, department officials said.
Florida man dies after jump from waterfall in Pisgah
BREVARD -- Authorities say that a Florida man has died after jumping from Looking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest.
Lt. Brian Kreigsman of the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office said that Ronald Conrad Brown died during surgery Sunday after he was airlifted to an Asheville hospital.
Officials say they think that Brown, 49, of Navarre, Fla., suffered head and spinal injuries, and broken bones.
Witnesses said that Brown had climbed to the top of the falls and jumped about 70 feet into 6 feet or less of water.
Relatives told Kreigsman that Brown had enjoyed jumping from waterfalls since childhood.
Kreigsman said he has requested a toxicology report for Brown.
Charges dismissed for man in prison for 2002 robbery
RALEIGH -- The N.C. Court of Appeals has dismissed all charges against a man serving at least 44 years in prison in connection with a Durham home invasion.
In a ruling yesterday, judges blamed prosecutors for a nearly five-year pretrial delay, saying that it deprived Frankie Delano Washington the right to a speedy trial and prejudiced the case.
But Tracey Cline, an assistant district attorney for Durham County, said that prosecutors were ready to go to trial on several occasions and that delays were caused by other factors, including a victim that was traumatized and a request from the defendant to have more evidence tested.
Washington was found guilty of burglary, kidnapping, robbery, assault and attempted sex offense after a trial in February 2007. He was arrested in May 2002 after a Durham family reported a home invasion.
Man accused of wrecking boat, killing boy is arrested
SOCASTEE, S.C. -- A man who police say smashed into a boat on the Intracoastal Waterway while fleeing from a burglary, killing a 13-year-old Aiken boy, has been arrested, and that two women have been charged as accessories.
Horry County police and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources arrested Brandon Scott McDevitt, 22, on Monday and charged him with first-degree burglary.
Amber Nicole Walker and Elizabeth L. Parness have been arrested and charged with accessory after the fact of a felony.
Police are still looking for Nicholas Macklen, 28.
Authorities say that the men broke into a house and stole a television before taking off in a boat and colliding with another vessel near Socastee.
The wreck killed Shayne Odermatt and seriously injured three others.
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