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2A THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,2018 3 face charges over toppling of Confederate statue ■ Steinburg: Misdemeanor charges ‘insufficient’ By Staff and Wire Reports Police filed charges Fri day against three people ac cused of helping tear down a century-old Confederate statue during a protest this week at North Carolina’s flagship university. The University of North Carolina’s campus police department filed warrants for the three on misde meanor charges of riot ing and defacing a public monument, according to a news release. The release said the three aren’t affili ated with the university. The department said there could be more ar rests. Another protester was charged earlier in the week with misdemeanor counts of resisting officers and wearing a mask short ly before the statue came down. Several hundred pro testers on UNC’s campus in Chapel Hill used ropes Monday (Aug. 20) to bring down the statue known as “Silent Sam.” The orga nized protesters took ad ¬ “If you do not think the Silent Sam statue destruction is a big deal to the people of North Carolina, I invite you to come to my office and listen to the hundreds of calls/emails coming in on a daily bases. People want this madness to end. It will." Bob Steinburg Republican state representative vantage of a non-confron- tational police response to topple the statue that stood since 1913 in a main quad. University and legis lative leaders have con demned the protesters’ actions as “mob rule,” de manding a hard look at the police response and a full criminal investigation. The State Bureau of Investiga tion has been brought in to assist. “If you do not think the Silent Sam statue destruc tion is a big deal to the people of North Carolina, I invite you to come to my office and listen to the hundreds of calls/emails coming in on a daily bases. People want this madness to end. It will,” said Repub lican state Rep. Bob Stein burg, R-Chowan. Steinburg said the mis demeanor charges filed so far are insufficient. “That’s a relative slap on the hand based on what they have done,” he said. Steinburg said he’s wor ried that weak prosecution of vandals will embolden further attacks on other Confederate monuments across the state. He called law enforcement respons es to Silent Sam and an other statue toppling in Durham “milquetoast.” The statue is in tempo rary storage, and its future is unclear. Edenton's Most Crime and Justice Editor’s note: As promised, published below is a list of Edenton’s Most Wanted suspects. Persons within this feature provided by the Edenton Police Department are innocent until proven guilty. Anyone with information about the people on this list is asked to call the Edenton Police Department at (252) 482-5144, or Chowan Central Communication at (252) 482- 4444. TYRONE CHRISTOPHER WILSON ■ Charges: 2 counts of assault on a female, Battery on an unborn child, Interfering with Emergency Communications, resisting a public officer. ■ Height/weight: 5’7, 135. ■ Age: 19. ■ Hair/eye color: Black/ brown. ■ Race/sex: Black/male. EDENTON POLICE DE PARTMENT ARRESTS ■ Aug. 22 — Beatrice Staton All, 52, of Elliott Street, South Mills, NC, was arrested on two misdemeanor counts of failure to appear and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug para phernalia. ■ Aug. 21 — Robert Lee Co peland Jr., 42, of Bridgetown Av enue, was arrested after being is sued a summons/citation on one felony count of failure to appear and one misdemeanor count of Wanted NIKALE EREON WALTON ■ Charges: 3 counts of Felony Breaking and Entering. ■ Height/weight: 5’9, 139. ■ Age: 19. ■ Hair/eye color: Black/brown. ■ Race/sex: Black/male. DERRICK LAMONT PHILLIPS ■ Charges: Robbery with a dangerous weapon. ■ Height/weight: 6’1,200. ■ Age: 27. ■ Hair/eye color: Black/ brown. ■ Race/sex: Black/male. : I Crimewatch failure to appear. ■ Aug. 17 — Deeandre Keitha- le, 19, of Badham Road, was charged with one misdemeanor count of consuming alcohol while underage. ■ Aug. 16 — Cordell Long, 32, of Coke Avenue, was arrested on one misdemeanor count of failure to appear. INCIDENTS ■ Aug. 21—Hit and run on Vir ginia Road. CHOWAN COUNTY SHER IFF’S OFFICE ARRESTS ROBERT KEITH BEASLEY ■ Charges: Breaking and Entering to terrorize or cause injury, Assault on a female, and second degree Kidnapping. ■ Height/weight: 5’9,220. ■ Age: 40. ■ Hair/eye color: Black/ brown. ■ Race/sex: Black/male. LINWARD BAILEY III ■ Charges: Assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill. ■ Height/ weight: 5’9,187. ■ Age: 24. ■ Hair/eye color: Black/brown. ■ Race/sex: Black/male. ■ None reported. INCIDENTS ■ Aug. 23 — Burglary/break- ing and entering on Rocky Hock Creek Road. ■ Aug. 23 — Opening a Verizon account using a false name of a Yeopim Road resident. ■ Aug. 19—Discharging a fire- arm into an occupied dwelling on Dallie White Road. ■ Aug. 3 — Driving under the influence, possession of up to % ounce of marijuana and posses sion of marijuana paraphernalia on Yeopim Trail. CHAPEL HILL Seven people were arrested Saturday at a rally calling for a century-old Confederate statue at the University of North Car olina to be returned after it was yanked down last week. About a dozen people car rying Confederate flags were met by dozens of protesters that don’t want the memorial known as “Silent Sam” to re turn to the campus in Chapel Hill. Television footage and videos posted to social media showed several punches thrown and at least one man handcuffed after he tried to burn a Confederate flag taken from another man’s hands. None of the seven people ar rested was affiliated with the school, Chancellor Carol Folt said. Three were charged with as sault, two were charged with assault, destruction of prop erty and inciting a riot; one was charged with destruction of property and one was charged with resisting an officer, the university said in a statement. Officials did not release then- names or say if they were protesting for or against the statue. “Silent Sam,” erected in 1913, was torn down Monday dining a protest. It’s now in temporary storage. Folt said there have been at least 35 demonstrations about the statue in the past several years, and while she would prefer a safer, more secure location than a main campus quad, the university hasn’t decided what to do with the monument. Police surrounded its empty pedestal with barri cades Saturday. The chancellor only prom ised a “sustainable, lawful so lution” during a conference call with reporters, where she also acknowledged there were “very tense moments” during Saturday’s demonstrations. “I won’t be rushed into that,” Folt said of Silent Sam’s fate. COLUMBIA A North Carolina woman has been arrested after authori ties say they found 75 malnour ished animals in her backyard. The Virginian-Pilot reports 39-year-old Christy L. Edwards, of Columbia, is charged with animal cruelty. Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman says deputies visited the property Friday and Saturday after re ceiving a tip. He says they found animals including chickens, donkeys, horses, goats, a pig and a tur key without food or water. He says that “when you see a pig with his ribs showing, that’s pretty bad.” Liverman says the animals have since been checked by a veterinarian and taken to a Currituck County farm. ELIZABETH CITY The U.S. Coast Guard says five people who departed Eliz abeth City in a seaplane on Sat urday were rescued by a con tainer ship after their aircraft was forced to make an emer gency landing in the Atlantic Ocean. According to a press release issued Sunday, the seaplane’s front node was damaged by striking an object on takeoff, forcing the plane to land about 460 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras on Saturday. All five of the people aboard put on life jackets after the plane landed on the water, the Coast Guard said. The press re lease did not contain the names or addresses of those aboard the plane. HERTFORD Hertford Town Councilman Quentin Jackson’s legal trou bles continue. The first-term councilor was arrested on Thursday, a day after he failed to show up in court on charges connected to a property dispute with his cousin. Jackson was scheduled to appear in Perquimans District Court on Wednesday to face charges of breaking and enter ing and first degree trespass ing. The charges stem from a dispute between Jackson and a cousin, Catherine Flowers, over a house Flowers owns on Brace Avenue in Hertford. Flowers, who says Jackson was living in the house, was seeking six months of rent from the councilman — a total of $2,400 — and $200 for dam ages she claims Jackson made to the property. BOE Continued from 1A board in November, is the longtime owner of a local business, Northeast Gutter ing Company. He also serves as senior pastor for Potecasi Church in Northampton County. He and his wife De nise, who have been married 36 years, have three sons, all graduates of the Edenton- Chowan Schools. They have one grandson and a daugh ter-in-law who teaches kin dergarten in the local school system. “My passion to be an ad vocate for the students and staff of Edenton-Chowan Schools continues to grow,” he said. “I believe we have the best school system in Northeast North Carolina and I eqjoy and want to be a part of it.” Both candidates identified Building a new high school may be less expensive than repairs and improvements made at John A. Holmes. However, building a new high school, possibly including a new middle school within the same compound, brings its own host of issues that will require much study and careful decision-making, the candidates said. making the best decision possible regarding whether to build a new high school as a priority. A joint committee com prised of county com missioners and school board members, including Browder, has been cre ated to study whether to build a new high school or repair/renovate the exist ing high school. Building a new high school may be less expensive than repairs and improvements made at John A. Holmes. However, building a new high school, possibly including a new middle school within the same compound, brings its own host of issues that will require much study and careful decision-making, the candidates said. Browder pledged to keep an open mind when consid ering the facts surrounding to decision. “There are pros and cons for both options, but I believe the most important factor is how it will affect the educa tion of those students both in the short term while the process takes place and after it is completed,” he said. Bunch said in her opinion Chowan County is at a “fork in the road” when it comes to discussing and weighing options relating to the Hol mes facility project. “While I believe that both paths at this ‘fork in the road’ have merit, it is of utmost im portance to embrace input from all sectors of our com munity before taking either of these paths,” she said. “This is not about what Jean Bunch wants, but rather what our community per ceives as the best approach to take to provide the best educational environment for our students.” CHOWAifHERALD (USPS 106-380) Vol. 83, No. 34 Published Every Wednesday Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Entered as a second-class matter August 30,1934 at the Post Of fice of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily Advance home delivery area $30* (Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, parts of Gates) Elsewhere in continental United States $47 *Plus applicable sales tax. 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