September 17, 2008
«The Kings Mountain Herald
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LOCAL
Police standoff i in
KM ends with arrest
i EMILY WEAVER
i eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Several Kings Mountain
Police officers exhibited
restraint and grace under fire
on a recent call, according to
Capt. Derek Johnson. When
lives could have been taken,
they were spared.
On September 3, 2008 at
approximately 9:25 p.m., six
Kings Mountain Police officers
responded to a domestic call at
406 Belvedere Circle, where a
white male, later identified as
Arnold Eugene Mauney, 48, of
Blacksburg, SC, was reportedly
firing into a residence from the
front porch.
When officers arrived they
witnessed Mauney “actively fir-
ing rounds into the front door,”
according to information
released by Capt. Johnson. The
perpetrator was allegedly
armed with two guns and, after
repeated commands for him to
drop the weapons, Johnson said
that he raised one of the
firearms aiming, once again, in
the “immediate direction” of
the bystanders involved. An
officer fired a shot at the sus-
pect, but luckily missed his tar-
get.
However, Mauney allegedly
continued to ignore the officers’
pleas for him to put the
weapons down and turned the
to his own head. After a
brief standoff, he eventually
surrendered to officers and was
placed into custody, according
to Johnson.
Mauney was transported to
Kings Mountain Hospital for a
non-life threatening laceration
to his hand. He was then taken
to the Cleveland County Law
Enforcement Center and went
before a magistrate, where he
was given a $200,000 bond,
according to police.
Mauney faces felony charges
of Assault with a Deadly
Weapon with Intent to Kill and
Discharging a Weapon into an
Occupied Dwelling.
Det. Johnson agreed that the
outcomes in this case could
have been more dire. “Nobody
got hurt,” he said, adding that it
ended with a “good result.”
He credits the officers for the
successful apprehension of
Mauney and admitted that it
can be hard to stay a trigger in
an intense situation where shots
are being fired. “They really
showed a lot of compassion and
restraint,” he said. “Their train-
ing in tactics came into play.
They utilized that training and
had a good outcome.”
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KM couple arrested
on child abuse charges
Adam Smart, 21, and Jennifer
Smart, 22, both of Kings
Mountain, were arrested on
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
on charges of child abuse.
Officials with the Kings
Mountain Police Department
said that they received a report
of “possible infant child abuse”
from the Cleveland County
Department of Social Services
around 9:30 p.m. on September
4, 2008. At that time the child
was being treated at Gaston
Memorial Hospital and that
same evening was transported
to Levine's Children Hospital at
Carolina Medical Center in
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Lisa Proctor.
After the initial report, the
Kings Mountain Police
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