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Fire & Police Briefs: Lexington man charged after marijuana plants found
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Published: July 25, 2009
LEXINGTON -- A 48-year-old Lexington man has been arrested on charges of growing 73 marijuana plants with a street value of $109,000, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office says.
The arrest came after the sheriff's deputies discovered a total of 192 marijuana plants in various parts of the county this week, Sheriff David Grice said.
On Tuesday, deputies found 39 marijuana plants in a grow lab near Thomasville. On Wednesday, the 80 marijuana plants were found along Enterprise Road near Midway. And on Thursday, 73 marijuana plants were found in the basement of a house on Pleasant Hill Road.
Guy Franklin Byrd of 135 Pleasant Hill Road was charged with manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a dwelling to keep a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in connection with the 73 marijuana plants.
He was in the Davidson County Jail yesterday, with bond set at $10,000.
Two involved in wreck hospitalized in fair condition
Two people injured in a motorcycle wreck Thursday night were still in a Winston-Salem hospital yesterday.
The wreck occurred just after 10 on Germanton Road.
Winston-Salem police said that Daniel Ephriam Shaffner, 52, was traveling south on Germanton when he lost control of the motorcycle, and it slid into a car that was stopped in another lane.
The driver of the car drove away after the motorcycle hit it, police said.
Shaffner, of Dobson, and a passenger on his motorcycle, Pamela Yvonne Kardon, 45, of Winston-Salem, were seriously injured, police said. They were taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for treatment. They were both in fair condition yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Shaffner was charged with driving while impaired and driving while license revoked.
Former death-row inmate charged with kidnapping
CHARLOTTE -- Federal prosecutors are bringing kidnapping charges against a former death-row inmate accused of seizing a North Carolina grandfather and his family.
Authorities filed a criminal complaint yesterday against Jerry Douglas Case, 52.
Investigators say that Case threatened to kill the family and forced them to drive around North Carolina and South Carolina.
Court papers say that the man, his adult daughter and two grandchildren escaped when Case got out of the vehicle at a gas station.
Prosecutors say that Case could face up to life in prison.
Case was sentenced to North Carolina's death row in 1986 for fatally stabbing a Knoxville, Tenn., taxi driver. A retrial gave him a life sentence, but he got out on parole in 2007.
Case has been arrested four times since then.
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