Detectives investigate drugs mailed from California



STATESVILLE – Sheriff’s detectives closed a month-long investigation Friday, April 6, into high-grade marijuana mailed from California and distributed in Iredell County.Detectives searched a Phillips Lane home in Statesville, finding more than 907 grams of marijuana and seizing $3,500. They also made three arrests.Patrick Hunter Dishman, 21, and Thomas Perez Jr., 20, were charged with possession with intent to sell […]

Man faces rape charges of 4-year-old



STATESVILLE – Sheriff’s detectives arrested a Statesville man Monday, April 9, after the Iredell County Department of Social Services received a report that a 4-year-old had been sexually assaulted.Jacob Lee Eugene Johnson 19, of Lippard Farm Road, was arrested on first-degree rape and indecent liberties with a child, following an investigation of the April 2 report.Johnson was placed in the […]