Community complaints about illicit gun activity prompted Asheville police to make a series of arrests on Thursday, including two that included the seizure of illegally concealed weapons and small amounts of drugs, authorities said. According to a release from the Asheville Police Department, “proactive enforcement” also included the arrest of four people wanted on outstanding charges, and the seizure of two weapons along with small amounts of crack, fentanyl, MDMA (or “Ecstasy”) and marijuana.
A Hendersonville man has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the December 2022 shooting deaths of a man and woman found dead inside a vehicle in Fletcher, according to a the Buncombe County District Attorney’s office.
A suspect has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on a pedestrian Feb. 29 in West Asheville, police said.
A 55-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with Asheville’s first confirmed homicide of 2024, a beating death discovered early Friday morning (March 8) in the Compass Point Village area.
Authorities in North Carolina have arrested two people in a case of poaching hundreds of Venus flytraps, which grow naturally in the eastern part of the state.