Investigators located a missing Burke County 15-year-old near Mount Jackson in Shenandoah County, Va., on Tuesday night around 10:30 p.m. Two men were arrested in connection to her disappearance.
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According to court records, law enforcement determined that Curtis was trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine in Burke and Catawba counties.
The Morganton Department of Public Safety arrested Christopher George Myers, 53, of Morganton, in connection to the death of David Castro Salvidar.
Editor Emeritus Bill Poteat profiles Rutherford College Town Manager Jessica Bargsley.
Despite the packed courtroom on the morning of July 30, the sound of jangling chains echoed clearly down the halls and through the closed doors as two people charged with the murder of a Morganton couple were led in to face the judge.
In the early hours of Monday morning, around 3:17 a.m., the Burke County Sheriff’s Office responded to a suspicious death on Barus Pond Loop in Valdese.
Nearly two and a half hours after emergency responders were called to the rock face west of the Duke Energy water intake at Linville Dam, water rescue teams located and recovered the body of Austin Shyjuan Washington, 18, of Lincolnton, around 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 13.
Burke County’s Superior Court was back in session this past week, with new and returning faces appearing from behind the “Court Officials Only” door, jingling as the chains around their waists and ankles shifted in the quiet courtroom.
A man previously on Burke County’s Most Wanted List was arrested on June 7, when deputies with the Burke County Sheriff’s Office worked with Ledford’s Bail Bondsmen to locate Dylan Scott Smith, 24, of Morganton, at an address on New Orleans Boulevard.
On the morning of June 9, detention officers and medical personnel at the Burke County Jail initiated life-saving measures on an unresponsive inmate that was found in his cell around 5:30 a.m.
