A Davie County high-school teacher was charged yesterday with peeping at a juvenile in a restroom stall at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Winston-Salem.
Eric Jason Reeder, 34, of High Point was arrested yesterday afternoon at Davie County Early College High School, where he is an English teacher.
Winston-Salem police charged Reeder with one misdemeanor count of peeping. The arrest came after police investigated a report that a man was peeping into the restroom stall that a juvenile male was using at Barnes & Noble, 1925 Hampton Inn Court, on Jan. 13.
Reeder has been a teacher with the Davie County school system since August 2007, said Bill Campbell, a spokesman for the school system. Reeder has been suspended with pay, Campbell said.
According to the school's Web site, Reeder teaches two levels of English, and advises student publications and the newspaper staff at the early college.
Reeder was taken to the Forsyth County jail after the arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 25.
Man, 82, sentenced in shooting
An 82-year-old man who Winston-Salem police said operated a drink house pleaded guilty yesterday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 37-year-old woman.
Police said that in the early hours of Dec. 16, 2008, Alfred C. Stafford was trying to get company to leave his house at 1505 E. 22nd St.
Assistant District Attorney Matt Breeding said that two women wouldn't leave, so Stafford got a 25-caliber pistol and fired it in the air. One shot went into the ceiling, another went into the wall, and the final shot hit Princess L. Parks of Addison Avenue, Breeding said.
Jason Crump, Stafford's attorney, said that Stafford is legally blind and did not intend to kill anyone. He has been in the Forsyth County Jail for 12 months awaiting trial.
Judge A. Robinson Hassell sentenced Stafford to 10 to 12 months in prison and gave him credit for the time he has already served in jail.
Grand jury indicts Ashe man
CHARLOTTE -- A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted an Ashe County businessman accused of defrauding investors of more than $35 million.
Keith Franklin Simmons, the owner of Black Diamond Capital Solutions and other businesses, was arrested in December by the FBI and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud and securities fraud.
He is accused of defrauding more than 240 investors by telling them that he was investing their money in the foreign-currency exchange system. Authorities say that he was running a Ponzi scheme by paying investors with the money from other investors and using their money to support his lavish lifestyle.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday.
Judge denies bond for two men
A Forsyth County judge declined to set bond yesterday for two men facing charges in the fatal shooting of a Kernersville man.
Judge A. Robinson Hassell of Forsyth Superior Court denied bond in the cases of Matthew Lee Cherry and Zachary Robert Moore, both 19. They have been held with no bond allowed since their arrests in 2008.
Cherry and Moore, who were seniors at Glenn High School, are charged with killing Brian Keith Atkins, 40, of Kernersville on Aug. 24, 2008. Also charged are Jose Luis Colunga and Christian Nunez Pascasio.
Atkins was found shot in the chest after the sport utility vehicle he was driving ran off the road and hit a sign on South Main Street near the on-rap for westbound Business 40. Assistant District Attorney David Hall said that Atkins was still alive after he was shot and drove a quarter of a mile before his SUV wrecked.
Hall has said that Pascasio was the shooter and a member of the gang Surenos 13, or Sur 13, a Mexican-American gang that started in Southern California. He has said that the other three were not gang members.
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