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VCAT searches for cut-and-run suspect

Submitted by Jessica Sells, Web Producer
Friday, August 3rd, 2012, 11:48am
VCAT searches for cut-and-run suspect

The Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) is looking for Dequan Reid on outstanding warrants for robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, and interfering with an eletronic monitoring device.

Reid was put on CMPD Electronic Monitoring when he posted $25,000 bond January 24, 2012. CMPD said he has a criminal history, including arrests for breaking and entering, weapon charges, assault with a deadly weapon, and auto theft.

Reid was last seen on Dedmond Drive near his residence. VCAT asks anyone with information about his whereabouts to call (704) 336-VCAT or call 911.

CMPD reports Reid is the 20th offender to cut off his monitor this year. Department data shows there were five fewer cut-and-runs at this time in 2011.

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Police: Man robs store, fires shot

Submitted by Jessica Sells, Web Producer
Friday, August 3rd, 2012, 10:50am
Police: Man robs store, fires shot

Officers arrested a man they said helped rob a northeast Charlotte business.

At about 11 p.m. Thursday, officers were called to the Fast Mart on Tom Hunter Road, near the Hidden Valley neighborhood. 

A clerk at the store told police a man with a pistol demanded cash from the register, snatched money from a customer's hand, then fired a shot into the store before he jumped into a getaway car.

No one was hurt, and police were able to get a detailed description of the armed robber and the getaway car. A short time later, an off-duty officer saw a matching vehicle nearby and called it in.

Police pulled over the car on Gibbon Road, but said the passenger jumped out and ran away. That person has not been located.

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Police: Arrest made in string of sweepstakes break-ins

Submitted by John Cominsky on Monday, July 30th, 2:50 pm

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Two men have been arrested for a series of business burglaries, and may be responsible for as many as twenty more, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

On July 28 around 4 a.m., undercover detectives with CMPD who were working an operation to combat commercial break-in cases say they saw two men breaking into the Laid Back Jack's sweepstakes parlor on Tyvola Road.

Those two men, Robert Antonio Tyson, 32, and Demarcus Moore, 26, were taken into custody without incident, police say.

During the investigation, detectives found that the duo was responsible for four other break-ins across the area. The Four Leaf Clover Sweepstakes on Rozzelles Ferry Road, the North Tryon Business Center and the County Line Sweepstakes, both on North Tryon Street, and the Pots of Gold Sweepstakes on Alleghany Drive were all broken into by the suspects, according to CMPD.

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Harris Teeter ups reward for information on armed robberies

Submitted by Nick Needham on Wednesday, July 11th, 9:22 am

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Harris Teeter has increased the reward to $75,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for a string of robberies across the Carolinas.

The Matthews-based grocery store chain announced the original reward of $50,000 back in May after a rash of armed robberies at several of its groceries stores in Charlotte, Cornelia, Cornelia, the Triad region and South Carolina.

In each case, one or two men has entered the store and demanded money with a gun. No one has been shot in the robberies but a store manager was physically assaulted at the Harris Teeter on the 11500 block of Providence Road.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or Crime stoppers at 704-334-1600.

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Police: Drunk man blamed for falling glass from uptown building

Submitted by Sharon Smith
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012, 12:18pm

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Police in Charlotte say a drunk man is responsible for glass shards falling from a high rise building in uptown Charlotte Sunday night.

According to police, the incident happened around 8:32 p.m. Sunday night at the One Wells Fargo building on College Street.

Witnesses say they heard a loud noise, then saw glass falling the building.

Police soon arrived to block off an area around the courtyard and sidewalk between the skyscraper and the Hilton hotel.

In a report from the responding officer, police say a highly intoxicated male somehow managed to throw some type of object through the window on the 39th floor. 

That broke the window and sent glass flying 39 stories down.

Several of the witnesses were attending a bloggers convention at the Hilton. Reports of what happened immediately went up on Twitter.

There were no injuries, an arrest has not yet been made. 

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Missing Charlotte teen found in St. Louis, man charged with kidnapping

Submitted by Nick Needham on Friday, June 22nd, 12:09 pm

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- A missing Charlotte teen was located in St. Louis, Missouri this week and the man she was with has been arrested.

On May 24, Jacqueline Alfaro, 13, was reported missing by her mother, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. 

Police arrested Gonzalo Maceda Barrera, 31, is charged with first degree kidnapping.

CMPD traced the pair to St. Louis, Missouri but offered no details on the investigation.

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Man shot in North Charlotte, police investigating

Submitted by John Cominsky on Tuesday, June 19th, 5:23 pm

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are investigating a shooting that happened in the middle of the day.

The incident happened in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven near the intersection of North Tryon and Dalton Avenue just before 3:30 p.m., police say.

The victim, who has only been identified as a white male, was in the parking lot with two other people, which police describe as a black male and a white female.

According to police, there was some type of confrontation within the group, and it ended with the victim being shot in the lower abdomen by the black male.

Based on evidence collected at the scene, police believe the victim and the shooter knew each other.

The shooter and the woman then left the scene in a brown four-door sedan, heading up Dalton Avenue toward Statesville Road, police say.

They remain on the loose at this time.

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