Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Report cites missed warnings on fatal domestic violence cases

A review of fatal domestic violence cases in Buncombe County is prompting calls for laws limiting violent offenders’ access to guns and other reforms.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Person of interest sought in Nebo armed robbery

MARION, N.C. (828newsNOW) — McDowell County authorities are searching for the person who robbed […]

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Candler man pleads guilty to robbery ‘because of drugs’

A Candler man has pleaded guilty to charges related to a January 2024 robbery that he reportedly told police was “because of drugs.”

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Teen pleads guilty to Juneteenth Festival shootings

Jawoun Deshun Hackett, 17, pleaded guilty to several felony charges related to a shooting in downtown Asheville.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Man accused of driving dead man’s vehicle faces more charges

Scotty Keith Styles is facing more charges after he was seen driving a vehicle that belonged to a dead man

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Police arrest two on drug charges while investigating shooting

While Asheville police were investigating a shooting on Atkinson Street, they made two drug arrests.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Asheville Christian Academy coach faces sex crime charge

A man who was a coach at Asheville Christian Academy has been charged with felony sexual activity with a student.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Buncombe County woman faces trafficking charges

A Buncombe County woman was jailed Wednesday on numerous drug charges just weeks after being arrested on a variety of other charges.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
3 people charged in Madison County break-ins

Three people from Tennessee have been arrested in a breaking-and-entering ring

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Arrest made after man stabbed in head in River Arts District

Police have arrested a man accused of stabbing another in the head on Tuesday morning in the 200 block of Riverside Drive.

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