A Winston-Salem man was arrested yesterday on sex charges involving a child in 2007, court records show.
DeMarcus Antonio Squire, 35, of 1922 Brewer Road, Apt. C, is charged with first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sex offense and taking indecent liberties with a child, arrest warrants show. Police said the incidents happened in December 2007. The only indication of the child's age from arrest warrants is that the child was under 13.
Squire was being held last night in the Forsyth County Jail with bond set at $500,000. He is scheduled to appear in court March 20.
Woman, 20, accused of having sex with girl, 13
Winston-Salem police arrested a woman yesterday on two counts of statutory rape, one count of second degree sexual exploitation and one count of taking indecent liberties with a minor, court records show.
LaSonya Renee Jackson, 20, is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, videotaping sexual acts between her and the girl and taking indecent liberties with the girl. Arrest warrants list addresses for Jackson in High Point and on East 22nd Street in Winston-Salem.
Police said the crimes happened between June 1 and July 24, 2008.
Jackson was being held in the Forsyth County Jail last night with bond set at $500,000. She is scheduled to appear in court March 20.
Forsyth County school-bus driver charged in hit and run
The driver of a Forsyth County school bus was charged yesterday with four counts of hit and run, causing property damage after her bus hit two parked cars, a mailbox and an unoccupied tractor-trailer near Dallas Drive, authorities said.
Holly Weavil, 54, of 345 Canary Trail was accused of leaving the area, Winston-Salem police said in a statement. She returned after police were notified of the collisions.
Two Southeast Middle School students were on the bus when the collisions occurred. Neither Weavil nor the children were injured.
Weavil has been suspended pending the results from the drug and alcohol tests that she took yesterday, said Theo Helm, a spokesman for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
Highway Patrol program tickets 26,845 for speeding
RALEIGH -- The N.C. Highway Patrol says that nearly 27,000 speeding tickets were issued during a two-week program created to encouraging motorists to obey speed limits to avoid highway fatalities.
Officials said yesterday that troopers issued 26,845 speeding citations during Operation Slowdown-Interstate Initiative, which began Feb. 9. About 10,000 tickets are usually issued during the same time period.
Officials say at least three troopers issued around 200 citations in Johnston County, including some where speeders were traveling more than 30 miles an hour over the speed limit.
Officials said speed was the cause of more than 14,000 injuries sustained in more than 50,000 collisions over the past four years.
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