Press Releases

WHEN: Friday, July 28, 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Scotland County Emergency Operations Center 1403 West Boulevard Laurinburg, NC 28352 WHAT: Representatives from local law enforcement agencies will speak about “Operation Heatwave,” a two-day operation that sought wanted fugitives and absconders from probation or parole, drug offenders and confiscation of illegal weapons in Scotland County.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Stephanie Freeman as the director of its Office of Staff Development and Training (OSDT).

Approximately 100 state, local and federal officers combined forces this week in Wake County to conduct searches of high-risk individuals on probation or parole supervision and to seek others wanted on outstanding criminal warrants. The two-day effort on June 27-28 resulted in 41 arrests, the seizure of 15 firearms, seizure of approximately $21,000 in cash and quantities of marijuana, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine.

MEDIA ADVISORY What: Graduation Ceremony for 10 new N.C. ALE Agents When: 11 a.m. Friday, June 30, 2017 Where: Dept. of Public Safety, Samarcand Training Academy, 3600 Samarcand Road, Jackson Springs (Moore County)

The North Carolina House and Senate both unanimously passed memorial resolutions Tuesday, June 27, that honored Correctional Sgt. Meggan Callahan, who died on April 26 after suffering injuries inflicted by an inmate at Bertie Correctional Institution. Sgt. Callahan’s family was in attendance for the votes in both chambers of the General Assembly, as were correctional officers from several prisons, and senior leadership from the Prisons and from the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice.

A Tabor Correctional Institution inmate who left his work assignment on Tuesday is back in custody after being captured today at 1 a.m. Members of the prison staff, along with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Department, captured Ricky Robinson (#0348782) in Whiteville early this morning.

At three North Carolina prisons, inmates are getting behind the wheel and learning new skills in commercial driving, with aspirations of working as truck or bus drivers after their release from prison Since early 2016, more than 200 inmates have successfully completed the commercial driving program offered at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, Morrison Correctional Institution in Hoffman and North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh.  

Corrections and law enforcement officers are seeking Ricky Robinson (#0348782), a minimum custody inmate from Tabor Correctional Institution in Columbus County who was discovered missing from his work assignment today. Robinson was working as a janitor at Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville when he walked away from his assignment. Robinson, 59, is serving a sentence as a habitual felon. He is scheduled for release in June 2021.

Death row inmate Malcolm Geddie, 70, died Sunday of natural causes at a Raleigh hospital. Geddie was convicted in Johnston County and sentenced to death for the 1994 robbery and shooting death of Reginald Dale Emory in Clayton.   Geddie also received an additional sentence of 40 years for the robbery.  

Governor Roy Cooper has received the U.S. Small Business Administration disaster declaration he requested to help residents and business owners in southeastern North Carolina recover from the straight line winds and severe storms that struck Sampson County May 29. “This was a powerful storm that pounded Sampson County, damaging homes, farms and other businesses,” Governor Cooper said. “Local officials responded to the storm immediately and are doing an excellent job leading the initial recovery efforts. Now the community needs our help to recover.”