Amid a range of escalating controversies, an independent audit, and a restructuring of the department, Asheville Police Chief William Anderson announced Nov. 14 that he will retire.
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SECU Plaza: Asheville Council sells naming rights to State Employee’s Credit Union
Asheville City Council voted unanimously Oct. 28 to sell the naming rights of an outdoor public space in the heart of downtown to the North Carolina State Employee’s Credit Union Foundation. Council also considered problems at the Asheville Police Department, heard an update from Duke Energy, and appointed three members to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
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Asheville City Council to consider Pack Place leases, APD plans
After months of debate, Asheville City Council is preparing to decide the fate of who will manage Pack Place on July 22. Council will also consider the Asheville Police Department’s new Strategic Operations Plan.
D.A. Ron Moore releases APD evidence-room audit
District Attorney Ron Moore released a 2011 audit of the Asheville Police Department Evidence Room June 19, revealing more details about missing drugs, guns and money that caused a major scandal. In 2012, several media outlets, including Mountain Xpress, filed an unsuccessful joint lawsuit to press Moore and the city of Asheville to release the […]
Former Asheville police evidence manager to be sentenced
Carolina Public Press reports: Lee Smith, the Asheville Police Department’s longtime evidence manager who resigned under a cloud of suspicion in early 2011 and last year pleaded guilty to stealing drug evidence, will be sentenced Tuesday, June 17, according to the federal prosecutor’s office in Charlotte. In an interview this week with Carolina Public Press, Buncombe […]
Local schools resume classes Aug. 21, officials urge safe driving
On Wednesday August 21, 2013, Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County schools will be back in session. And the Asheville Police Department is asking for assistance in keeping local children safe as they return to school, producing a video that urges drivers to use caution.
Mail to the Chief
On July 11, Asheville City Council held “a special meeting [and] declared its support for Police Chief William Anderson, announcing that an internal investigation had found no evidence that he had engaged in a cover-up related to a March car crash involving his son, as alleged by Lt. William Wilke,” David Forbes reported. Many readers questioned the efficacy of the city administration’s oversight regarding the police chief’s behavior, and wondered what other details came to light in the closed session that preceded the announcement. (Pictured: Police Chief William Anderson. Photo by Max Cooper)
APD seeks public’s help in finding missing person
After he was reported missing on April 29, William Howard Pack remains a missing person and the Asheville Police Department is asking the public for help. (Photo of Pack taken in 2004, courtesy of APD)
UPDATE: APD arrests suspect in Oct. 23 bank robbery and Oct. 25 Bojangles robbery
Two suspects and a person of interest were taken into custody at a Motel 6 in Hickory by FBI and APD officers this weekend, At this time APD has not made any photographs of the suspects available.
Crash course on the APD’s traffic safety unit
Officers in the traffic safety unit of the APD do more than write tickets. Thanks to their efforts, DWI rates in the city are down significantly this year. Pictured: Police officer Ann Fowler trains others in standard field sobriety testing recently at the Enka Campus of A-B Tech. (photo by Bill Rhodes)
Pair sought in Aug. West Asheville shooting
Dallas McBride and Travis James are wanted for the Aug. 20th shooting in the Deaverview area of West Asheville
Tuesday, Aug. 7 National Night Out Rally
Annual National Night Out Crime Prevention Kick-Off Rally set for Aug. 7 – ‘A good night to get to know your neighbors’
Truth trackers: APD’s cold-case sleuths defy the odds
Less than 1 percent of cold cases ever get solved. That doesn’t stop Asheville detectives Yvonne Cobourn and Kevin Taylor. They’ve got 24 local cases on their desks, and the process is like nothing you’ve seen on TV. Fighting the odds, Detective Yvonne Cobourn says, “That challenge is what we embrace.” (cover by John Zara)
One fatality in accident that closed part of Haywood Road, APD confirm
UPDATE: The Asheville Police Department confirms that one local resident died in a motorcycle accident on Haywood Road earlier today, June 8.
Body found in French Broad River, Asheville Police investigating
Asheville police say they found the body of Anthony Sawyer in the French Broad River today off of Amboy Road. An autopsy is scheduled for later this week.
Mock fatal crash to demonstrate distracted driving at Asheville High School
If you were driving by the high school today and saw all the emergency vehicles, don’t worry. It was a class on what happens at the scene of a fatal accident. (photos by Bill Rhodes)
Asheville street people claim stepped up police harrassment of homeless
Several men who were summonsed for 2nd degree trespassing at the Basilica of St. Lawrence this week are among many who claim APD is cracking down on the homeless downtown.
(photo by Bill Rhodes)
Joint APD/BCSO press conference on bank robbery suspect Clyde Allen Nixon
Asheville Police Chief William Anderson and Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan at a press conference announcing that warrants have been taken out for Clyde Allen Nixon.
APD’s new police chief speaks to local business leaders
APD’s new police chief William Anderson and Sheriff Van Duncan talk law enforcement at the March 1 Council of Independent Business Owners luncheon. (Photo by Caitlin Byrd)
Asheville police arrest Vets after midnight in Veterans Day protest downtown (UPDATED)
Based on reports from the Asheville Police Department and from two citizens on the scene, Asheville police arrested three Veterans just minutes after midnight on Nov. 12 for violating the city’s 10 p.m. park curfew, in a vigil that began Friday night of Veterans Day before the curfew and continued until the arrests occurred. (Image from video by Matt Johnson.)