A St. Pauls man who worked for at least five months as a jailer for the Cumberland County Sheriff s Office was arrested by police earlier this month on allegations he robbed a Fayetteville massage parlor.
Joezzie Rivera De Leon, 35, is charged with second-degree kidnapping, common law robbery and possession of stolen goods, court records show.
He was arrested at 10:48 p.m. April 1 at the Fayetteville Police Department about nine hours after a 51-year-old female employee at Massage & Therapy, 2033 Hope Mills Road, was threatened, police records show. The incident report indicates the suspect took personal items, opened a register and threatened, implied or showed a weapon.
The Fayetteville Observer
A former Wade couple was arrested in Florida last week related to felony child sex crime allegations in Cumberland County that were brought to light here in 2018, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff s Office.
Johnny James Matney, 45, is charged with five counts of indecent liberties with a child, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, according to a Sheriff s Office news release Thursday.
Matney’s ex-wife, Jennifer Lynell Matney, 35, is charged with felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor conspiracy. In 2018 there were problems in the case and enough evidence was not there to proceed. Recently evidence was presented that helped make the charge is possible, sheriff s spokesman Lt. Sean Swain said via email. We may have been able to charge in 2018 but we would not have been able to secure a conviction in court.
Area law enforcement agencies have seen a decrease in the number of officers on staff within the past year, which officials say is part of usual attrition and is not affecting response to public safety.
In Fayetteville, there are 434 budgeted sworn, full-time officer positions and 10 part-time positions, a Fayetteville Police Department spokesman said.
As of Monday, the department had 63 vacant full-time officer positions, said Sgt. Jeremy Glass, a spokesman for the department.
Since March 2020, 96 sworn officers have left the department, with 71 of those positions being filled.
“Please keep in mind that mid-sized and large-sized agencies staffing levels are down across the nation, and throughout the state, based off of our research,” Glass said.
The percentages of Black drivers stopped and searched in Cumberland County, Hope Mills and Spring Lake vary from year to year, state records show.
The police chiefs in Hope Mills and Spring Lake and a spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office say they are confident that their law enforcement agencies treat drivers fairly.
The Fayetteville Observer analyzed statistics compiled by the State Bureau of Investigation to determine the percentages of Black drivers and white drivers who were stopped and searched from 2010 through the first six months of 2020. The Hope Mills and Spring Lake police departments and the Cumberland County Sheriff s Office stopped and searched fewer vehicles than larger agencies, so smaller variations could impact the percentages from year to year.
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