September 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Police Officers Association on Tuesday criticized the city’s decision to reinstate Officer Ahmed Blake after he was recommended for dismissal from the force in July.
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September 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — A simulated terrorist attack aboard a jet at Piedmont Triad International Airport on Friday helped fine-tune emergency plans and gave dozens of agencies valuable training on working together.
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September 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro police officer recommended for firing in July after he was accused of assaulting two women at a party got his job back Friday. Ahmed Blake won back his job following an appeal to Interim City Manager Bob Morgan.
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September 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted Thursday of killing a Thomasville man. Scottie Alonzo Menser, 27, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the Oct. 28, 2007, sla...
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GREENSBORO — Police administrators have completed their initial actions on more than 200 recommendations made in a consultant’s report last year. They say they look forward to improving the department’s efficiency more as money becomes a...
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September 22, 2009
STOKESDALE — Things have gone hog wild at Stokesdale Elementary School this week. The students have been well-behaved — it’s the pigs that have caused problems. Five pigs have been snorting around the school campus this week, forcing tea...
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September 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — The U.S. Department of Justice will not pursue the case of 39 black police officers suing the city on charges of racial discrimination. But an attorney representing some of the plaintiffs said the case would move forward, regardless.It......
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September 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Tears streamed down Kathleen O’Connell’s face the first time she stepped into the Guilford County Courthouse in 1992. She was wearing contacts that day, and something in the air caused her eyes to itch and swell. “I th...
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September 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — A bloody trail from a bungled burglary led UNCG to close the Curry Building on Friday morning as police investigated — and workers cleaned up — the mess. Dozens of classes were canceled, and routines were disrupted for...
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September 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — A man convicted of killing a Greensboro police officer and wounding two others in a 1974 shootout was arrested Saturday — four days after being released from state prison — on charges of resisting arrest.Henry Oliver McQueen...
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GREENSBORO — Police are looking for a woman who dragged an officer with her car after a weekend traffic stop downtown. At midnight Saturday, while patroling on bikes, Officers M.W. Gonzalez and M.J. Calvert stopped a white, four-door BMW at Frie...
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September 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Three men who pleaded guilty in a September 2007 drug-related homicide will spend at least 17 years each in state prison. The men -- Donny Mosley, 24; Pedro Sanchez, 18; and Justin Jeffries, 17 -- were convicted on charges of secon...
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September 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — A federal grand jury has returned a 14-count indictment on the surviving suspect in a Wachovia bank robbery and shootout Feb. 9 with Greensboro police. Christopher O’Neal Patterson, 23, was indicted Aug. 31 on five counts each of...
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September 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — At 9:59 a.m. Friday, Greensboro’s fire radio frequencies went silent. At Fire Station No. 1 on North Church Street, about 30 firefighters and civilian employees bowed their heads as they stood behind the bronze Firefighter Memoria...
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September 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — The tow-truck driver on his way to repossess a car Thursday stopped at Edwardia and West Market streets when something caught his eye.Three masked men, holding handguns, stormed from the RBC Centura Bank across the street.An orange clou...
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September 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — A former custodian at Joyner Elementary School was sentenced to nearly five years in state prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in the school’s cafeteria last summer. Joel Van Stephenson, 56, of 2105 Tarrywood...
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GREENSBORO — A man convicted last week of robbing five Greensboro banks will spend at least the next 37 years in state prison. A jury convicted Emmanuelle Dancy, 26, of five counts each of robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony conspiracy for hi...
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September 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro police lieutenant dropped a civil lawsuit against the city and two former police officials Friday morning. “It’s time for the city to move on, and we are doing this to begin the healing process,” Lt. James...
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GREENSBORO — All six members of a group that police call the most brazen bank robbery outfit to hit the city in recent memory will spend years in prison. A Guilford County Superior Court jury found the last member of the group to face trial &mdash......
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GREENSBORO — The former owner of a Greensboro medical spa received a six- to eight- month prison sentence after pleading guilty to forgery in a case involving buttocks-enhancing injections that left three women with kidney failure. However, the sent...
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GREENSBORO — Two brothers involved in the series of “Bluetooth Bandits” bank robberies testified Thursday that Emmanuelle Dancy robbed several Greensboro banks at gunpoint along with other members of the group. Brothers Anthony and Eric...
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September 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — A woman who was a lookout in at least one of the “Bluetooth Bandit” bank robberies testified Wednesday that she and Emmanuelle Dancy staked out together potential banks to rob and took part in a January 2008 robbery at a Wes...
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September 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — A former bank teller recalled having a handgun shoved in her face and later jabbed in her back as testimony began Tuesday in the trial of the last suspect accused in the “Bluetooth Bandit” bank robbery spree. Jurors this wee...
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GREENSBORO — A woman who assisted as a lookout during at least one of the “Bluetooth Bandit” bank robberies testified Wednesday that she and Emmanuelle Dancy staked out target locations together and took part in a January 2008 hold up a...
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September 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police are citing careful planning, reliable intelligence and a bit of secrecy as reasons why a gathering of a neo-Nazi group came and went Saturday without incident. “We had good intelligence information and a good cooperative re...
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