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Major, two deputies indicted in sheriff's office car-forfeiture case


HENDERSON — Prosecutors have secured new indictments in a case involving the Vance County Sheriff’s Office that accuses its second in command and two deputies of conspiring to dodge North Carolina laws on civil asset forfeiture.
A grand jury handed up the indictments of Maj. Stephen O’Neal Staton, Deputy Purav J. Patel and Deputy Mitch Taybronn Pittman on April 14, but they remained sealed under a judge’s order until Monday.
On Tuesday, all three were booked at the Wake County Jail, according to a Twitter post by managers of that facility. Court documents indicate that all three received unsecured bonds, of $50,000 in Pittman’s case and $35,00 in Patel’s and Staton’s, that allowed them to go free. ....

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