A North Carolina man was arrested in Tennessee this week and charged with abuse of a corpse after Carter County deputies found his girlfriend’s body in a storage tote in the car he was driving.
Authorities were tipped off by a friend of 24-year-old Michael Louis Cadogan who said he called her and told her what he’d done and showed her 19-year-old Gianna Rose Delgado’s body in a video call.
“He called me this morning, and he said that he had done something. I asked him what he had done. He Facetimed me and turned the camera around and he had choked and beat his girlfriend to death,” the caller told the High Point, North Carolina, Police Department, WECT reported.
ELIZABETHTON â A former coordinator of financial services at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton was arrested Wednesday afternoon on one count of theft over $60,000.
Valerie Carrier, 55, Elizabethton, turned herself in to the Carter County Jail after her indictment on Monday by a Carter County grand jury. Her bond is $25,000.
The charge stems from an investigation by special agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the office of the Tennessee comptroller of the treasury.
The investigation began upon the request by 1st District Attorney General Ken Baldwin to look into financial discrepancies involving refunds to student accounts at the school. During the course of the investigation, agents said, they had determined that between February 2018 and April 2019, Carrier used her position to steal more than $60,000. Carrier has since been terminated.
ELIZABETHTON â Three men charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 10-year-old Lillyhanna Davis made their first appearance in Carter County Criminal Court on Monday morning.
Jason Bryan Barber II, Jediah Shane Glover, and Zachary Scott Scalf each appeared before Judge Lisa Rice to enter not guilty pleas. Each man was dressed in the red and white striped uniform issued to prisoners of the Carter County Jail who are charged with felonies. The men have been held in pretrial confinement since their arrests in November.
In addition to the murder charge, each man is also facing eight counts of reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The men were originally in General Sessions Court, where they underwent a preliminary hearing on Jan. 8. Following that hearing, Judge Keith Bowers Jr. ordered them to appear in Criminal Court on April 12.
Their preliminary hearing was held Friday morning in Carter County Sessions Court.
After the hearing, Judge Keith Bowers Jr. bound over Jason Bryan Barber II, 18; Jediah Shane Glover, 20; and Zachary Scott Scalf, 20. Each is charged with first-degree murder, eight counts of aggravated assault reckless endangerment, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and criminal conspiracy. The men are scheduled to appear in Carter County Criminal Court on April 12.
They remain in the Carter County Jail on pretrial confinement.
Bowers kept the bond for each man at $900,000. He also scheduled another preliminary hearing on Jan. 29 for Barber and Glover on counts of aggravated assault in a different shooting incident on Swimming Pool Road in Hampton.