The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office is pursuing better coordination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify fugitives, Sheriff Van Duncan said today. The office is also stepping up its drug-seizure efforts.
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Asheville City Council preview: Sept. 22 meeting
A dog tether ban reappears and the city considers regulating signs on vehicles.
Phish concert yields (only) 13 drug arrests
Asheville police made 13 arrests in connection with the June 8 Phish concert, all involving drug charges. In an e-mail, police spokesperson Melissa Williams emphasized that the massive crowd (more than 10,000 people) “was mostly peaceful and caused no major problems for police.” And City Council member Carl Mumpower, who’s attended past Civic Center shows […]
13 drug arrests related to Phish concert, crowds “mostly peaceful”; Mumpower judges show “fun”
Last night, Asheville police made 13 arrests related to the Phish concert, all involving drug charges. A police spokesperson emphasized that the crowd of some 10,000 people “was mostly peaceful and caused no major problems for police,” and City Council member Carl Mumpower also sent out a missive praising the event as “fun, safe and managed.”
Mumpower woos tough crowd at Faces of Asheville; shocks some with marijuana comment
What happens when a conservative City Council member faces an Orange Peel full of Asheville progressives? Watch our videos to find out.
Drug tests for City Council members?
Asheville City Council’s interviews of potential colleagues on Tuesday may have an unintended offshoot — drug tests for Council members.
APD on Asheville’s gangs and “really good weed”
It was May 1, and Capt. Tim Splain, an 18-year veteran of the Asheville Police Department who’s the head of criminal investigations, was in the firing line (metaphorically speaking) at the latest session of the city’s ongoing Citizens Academy. “Let me be clear: Hip-hop does not cause gangs,” Splain declared after asserting that local media […]
Law honchos: Gangs, drugs challenge Asheville and Buncombe
Gangs and drugs are spurring much of the crime in Asheville and Buncombe County, both Sheriff Van Duncan and Police Chief Bill Hogan said at a forum on April 17. At the “State of Law Enforcement” discussion, part of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s ongoing “Doughnuts and Dialogue” series, both Hogan and Duncan gave […]
Mum’s word: Civic Center drug scene minimal
What you get when you mix 6,600 jam-band fans, 250 paper masks of City Council member Carl Mumpower, police K-9 units and two weeks of pre-show hype about drug use in the Asheville Civic Center? Apparently, you get good, clean fun. That was gist of Mumpower’s conclusion after he attended last Friday night’s Widespread Panic […]
Asheville mayor on McCormick Heights: more than drugs
Mayor Terry Bellamy says that a handful of problems — including changing market needs and failures in promotion, management and maintenance — and not just crime led to the breakdown of the McCormick Heights housing project. Council member Carl Mumpower sees things differently.
Positives and negatives
T.C. Roberson High School plans to continue its drug-testing program for a second year. So far, however, no other Buncombe County school is following suit. Roberson implemented a pilot program last year that randomly tested students involved in extracurricular activities. Constitutional issues prohibit mandatory testing of the entire student body, because they are required by […]