Local News
Email
Print
Fire & Police Briefs: Former teacher facing sex charges makes first appearance in Davie court
ADVERTISEMENT
Published: October 23, 2009
Updated: 10/23/2009 12:30 am
MOCKSVILLE -- A former middle- school teacher in Davie County charged with having sex with a female student made his first appearance in Davie District Court yesterday.
Doug Ebersbach, who was a teacher at Ellis Middle School, was arrested Oct. 3 in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of taking indecent liberties with a minor, and one count of breaking and entering.
Ebersbach, 50, had been with Davie County Schools since March 2006, and taught at South Davie Middle School before being transferred to Ellis Middle School this year. The transfer was related to budget and staff reductions, school officials have said.
He resigned just before the investigation started and moved to Ohio. He was extradited back to Davie County.
Ebersbach is in the Davie County Jail, with bond set at $750,000.
Man, 49, found in Alabama is jailed on rape charge from 2004
A 49-year-old man is in the Forsyth County Jail, five years after he was charged with raping a girl, according to court documents.
Harold Bright Harris Jr. was living at 5312 Cox Boulevard in Winston-Salem when he was charged Nov. 24, 2004, with first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense with a child, first-degree kidnapping and indecent liberties with a child.
Authorities found Harris in Alabama and brought him back to Winston-Salem, where he was served yesterday with warrants for his arrest, according to court documents.
According to the arrest warrants, the alleged abuse happened between Nov. 19 and Nov. 20, 2004. The girl was under 13 at the time, the arrest warrants said. Harris is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 13.
He is in the Forsyth County Jail, with bond set at $1 million.
Volunteer coach in Yadkin accused of soliciting a child
YADKINVILLE -- An assistant soccer coach at Forbush Middle School was arrested Wednesday on charges that he solicited a child in Alamance County.
William Shane Vanhoy, 32, of Hamptonville is charged with solicitation of a child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act. Deputies with the Alamance County Sheriff's Office arrested Vanhoy at his Yadkin County home Wednesday.
The investigation began in March, and the alleged solicitation happened in August, according to a report by WGHP/FOX8, the Winston-Salem Journal's news partner.
Detectives in the computer-crimes unit said that since March, Vanhoy had been chatting online with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl, but he didn't solicit an unlawful sex act until August.
Vanhoy was volunteering at Forbush Middle School and has been suspended, said James Benfield, the superintendent of Yadkin County Schools.
Benfield said that Vanhoy passed a background check before he began working with the soccer team this school year. Vanhoy was also a soccer coach with a youth soccer team that's affiliated with the N.C. Youth Soccer Association.
His name did not come up in a check on the Web site of the N.C. Department of Correction.
Vanhoy is free on a $5,000 bond.
Email
Print
