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Fire & Police Briefs: Surry sheriff's office probing man's suspicious death
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Published: July 18, 2009
The Surry County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspicious death at a home off Red Brush Road, west of Mount Airy.
Deputies checking on the welfare of a man at 124 Lindsay Creed Lane found a decomposing body Thursday, Sheriff Graham Atkinson said in a news release.
When a deputy walked toward the front door, which was open, he spotted the body in the grass near the front porch.
The sheriff's office is getting investigative help from the State Bureau of Investigation.
Atkinson said that the home belongs to Harry Watts Jr., but he said that sheriff's investigators have yet to confirm the identity of the body and are waiting for results of an autopsy at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill. The sheriff's office declined to say how the man died.
"This is being treated as a suspicious death," Atkinson said. "We do not believe it was natural causes, and we have found a weapon we believe was responsible."
Teen killed, woman seriously injured in Yadkinville wreck
YADKINVILLE -- A Yadkin County teenager was killed yesterday when her car collided with another car on Falcon Road near Yadkinville, authorities said.
Brittany Casstevens, 17, of Yadkinville died in the wreck shortly before 12:30 p.m., said Trooper Rodney Bates of the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Casstevens was driving her car northbound on Falcon Road in the Forbush community when she applied her brakes, went left of center, sideswiped a stopped car in front of her, and collided with a car traveling southbound on Falcon Road, Bates said. The stopped car was waiting for a car to make a turn.
Casstevens died at the scene, Bates said. Kayla Adams, who lives on Union Cross Church Road, was driving the northbound car.
Adams had serious injuries and was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, Bates said.
Immigration officer is charged with blackmail
RALEIGH -- An immigration- services officer in North Carolina is free on bond after being accused of threatening to have a Salvadoran woman deported unless she spent the night with him.
Bedri Kulla, 38, was arrested Wednesday on a blackmail charge. A federal judge in Greensboro released him on $1,000 bail.
Kulla works at the Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Durham, which handles applications and petitions for citizenship, work visas and other immigration matters.
In April, 23-year-old Xiomara Blanco accused Kulla of harassing her after they met through a personals section on a Web site. A federal affidavit says that Kulla demanded that Blanco date him and spend the night with him.
"The truth will come out," Kulla said Thursday without elaborating.
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