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Regional Briefs: Two charged with helping suspect in Mount Airy shootings
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Published: November 12, 2009
Updated: 11/11/2009 11:25 pm
STUART, VA. -- A Virginia mother and her son were charged Tuesday with accessory after the fact in connection with the Nov. 1 shooting deaths of four men in Mount Airy, authorities said.
Kathy Young Barnette, 56, and her son, Gregory Brandon Holt, 34, both of Claudeville, Va., are accused of helping Marcos Chavez Gonzalez, 29, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, Mount Airy police said.
Gonzalez is accused of killing Juan Manuel Martinez, 26; Javier Manuel Martinez, 21; Victor Alfonso Martinez-Jimemez, 22, all of Mount Airy; and Marcos Oviedo Aguilar, 21, of Surry County. Gonzalez was arrested at a Super 8 Motel on Memorial Drive in Martinsville, Va., about 50 miles northeast of Mount Airy.
A spokeswoman for the Mount Airy police said she didn't have details about the accusations against Barnette and Holt.
Barnette and Holt were being yesterday in the Patrick County Jail in Stuart, Va., with no bonds allowed. Gonzalez was being held in the Surry County Jail in Dobson, with no bond allowed.
Body identified as Kernersville man
Winston-Salem police identified yesterday the man who was found floating in Salem Lake on Saturday.
John Charles Woodward, 60, of 5124 Beulah Lane near Kernersville, was found in the lake by a jogger about 8:30 a.m., said Sgt. Jerry Pegram of the Winston-Salem Police Department. Investigators also found Woodward's bike in the lake, near where his body was found.
Foul play is not suspected. Police say they believe that Woodward was riding his bike on the trails around the lake, lost control and crashed into the water.
Winston police investigate robbery
Winston-Salem police are investigating a robbery at the In ‘n Out Mart on South Broad Street on Tuesday night.
Police said that a man entered the store just after 10 and demanded money and cigarettes. He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash toward First Street.
The robber was described as a black male, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet tall, 180 to 200 pounds, wearing a black vinyl jacket with two stripes around the upper sleeve, black pants, black Timberland boots, a blue faceless toboggan, and a black knot hat with a visor.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 727-2800.
Nursing program open house planned
An open house will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today regarding a program for critical-care registered-nurse certification.
The open house will be held on the first floor of the Janeway Tower of the Surgical Academy conference center for the Center for Applied Learning at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. It is also being sponsored by the Division of Nursing at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The program will begin in January. Attendance at the Critical Care Nursing Academy and participation in the nurse preceptor program will be available at no cost to participating hospitals.
Poll: Economy worries Southerners
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A new poll shows that Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy, and don't think that the federal government is doing enough to help.
The Winthrop Poll, released yesterday, found that four in 10 respondents say that the economy is a top concern. Nearly that many are worried about losing jobs.
Scott Huffmon, a political-science professor at Winthrop University, says that the worries mean that people may spend less, hindering an economic recovery.
The poll of 866 people in 11 states found nearly three-quarters of people wanted new government programs to create jobs and nearly two-thirds thought that states in serious financial trouble should get federal aid.
The telephone poll conducted between Oct. 24 and Nov. 7 has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.3 percent.
Pastor in sex case released from jail
LELAND -- A pastor in Eastern North Carolina has been released from jail after being arrested on charges of having sex with a child.
James T. Johnson, 46, was released from the Brunswick County Jail after a church member put up property as collateral. Johnson, the founder of The Olive Branch church in Leland, was being held on a $100,000 bond.
He was arrested Nov. 3 on six charges, including taking indecent liberties and first-degree sex offense against a child. Authorities say that the victim is a 13-year-old girl.
Johnson's attorney, Robert Epstein, said that Johnson says he is not guilty.
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