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Yahoo
19 hours ago
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Harnett man charged with theft of vehicle
A southwest Harnett County man was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle stemming from June 20. Christopher David Yates, 52, of the 2200 block of Marks Road in southwest Harnett County, allegedly stole a while 2005 Chrysler 300 valued at $2,800 from Tyler McCandless, an arrest warrant states. Yates was held in the Harnett County Jail on $10,000 bond, but was not listed in the jail roster as of Friday morning, June 27. A misdemeanor second-degree trespassing charge against him stemming from March 3, 2024 was dismissed, according to eCourts. No reason was given. However, Yates made an Alford plea on April 7 to felony failure to report a death stemming from May 25, 2023. In that case, Sanford resident Silvanus Nicquan Verbal, 38, died, but he did not die of natural causes, according to a court document. In an Alford plea, one does not admit guilt but acknowledges that the prosecution has enough evidence for a conviction. At that time, Yates listed an address in the 500 block of W. Main St. in Wallace in southeast North Carolina. He was arrested on May 27, 2023 and posted a $10,000 bond three days later. However, Yates failed to appear in court twice and was re-arrested on Sept. 8, 2023. He posted a $75,000 bond on Dec. 30, 2023. He was given credit for 118 days in jail and given a suspended sentence of four to 14 months and placed on unsupervised probation. He was ordered to pay fines and fees of $1,725. As of Friday, the amount due was $1,948, according to eCourts. Yates pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2022 to larceny by using a merchant's emergency exit door in Harnett County. He was given unsupervised probation for a year with credit for two days in jail. Felony charges of conspiracy and possession of stolen goods were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. According to a court document, Yates said he has a bachelor's degree in robotics.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man accused of raping woman in Kettering pleads guilty, gets 3 years in prison
Jun. 18—A man who was accused of raping a woman in a Kettering apartment building's laundry room has entered an Alford plea of guilty to some of his charges and was sentenced to prison. Tyre Otey, 29, entered an Alford plea of guilty to charges of gross sexual imposition and disrupting public services, both felonies, according to plea documents filed in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. He was sentenced to an agreed-upon three years in prison, with a year and a half in prison for each charge. An Alford plea is a guilty plea where a defendant maintains that they are innocent but still accepts the consequences of the crime, often made as part of a plea agreement. Otey was also designated a Tier I sex offender, and will have to register his address every year for 15 years. One count of rape was dismissed as part of the agreement. Otey was charged after Kettering police responded to a 911 hang-up call on Oct. 9, 2024 at an apartment building in the 1700 block of East Dorothy Lane. While checking the building, officers found two people in the shared laundry room engaged in sexual conduct, a Kettering police blotter said. "Through further investigation, it was discovered that the involved female had dialed 911 for help while being raped," the blotter read. Otey allegedly took the cellphone from her when she tried to call 911 and threw it into a trash can, according to an affidavit filed in Kettering in Municipal Court. He was arrested and booked in the Montgomery County Jail, where remains at the time of writing.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man accused of raping woman in Kettering pleads guilty, to get 3 years in prison
Jun. 17—A man who was accused of raping a woman in a Kettering apartment building's laundry room has entered an Alford plea of guilty to some of his charges. Tyre Otey, 29, entered an Alford plea of guilty to charges of gross sexual imposition and disrupting public services, both felonies, according to plea documents filed in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. An Alford plea is a guilty plea where a defendant maintains that they are innocent but still accepts the consequences of the crime, often made as part of a plea agreement. According to the plea agreement, Otey agreed to a sentence of 3 years in prison, with a year and a half for each charge to be served consecutively. He will also be found a Tier I sex offender, and will have to register his address every year for 15 years. One count of rape was dismissed as part of the agreement. Otey was charged after Kettering police responded to a 911 hang-up call on Oct. 9, 2024 at an apartment building in the 1700 block of East Dorothy Lane. While checking the building, officers found two people in the shared laundry room engaged in sexual conduct, a Kettering police blotter said. "Through further investigation, it was discovered that the involved female had dialed 911 for help while being raped," the blotter read. Otey allegedly took the cellphone from her when she tried to call 911 and threw it into a trash can, according to an affidavit filed in Kettering in Municipal Court. He was arrested and booked in the Montgomery County Jail, where remains at the time of writing.
