All assets associated with the tag: Smithfield police
Benjamin Blakely was arrested in Wilmington, Delaware. He is in custody and awaiting extradition back to North Carolina. Blakely was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
WRAL staff
Smithfield police are searching for a Selma man who's wanted for first-degree murder after one person was killed in a shooting at Johnson Court Apartments. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Markyse Naijae McCain, 20, turned himself in on Monday night. McCain was charged with first-degree murder after a shooting at a Smithfield apartment complex.
Aaron Thomas, WRAL reporter
Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson turned himself in on Tuesday morning after being indicted on Monday.
Tensions were running high at the Johnston County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday night as people expressed both their frustration and support for embattled school board member and suspended Smithfield police officer Ronald Johnson.
Chelsea Donovan, WRAL reporter
Det. Ronald Johnson, a 17-year veteran of the Smithfield Police Department, was put on administrative leave on July 5.
A Halifax man said he feared for his life after being threatened by an off-duty Smithfield police captain.
Eric Miller, WRAL multimedia journalist; Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter
Police said Monday that a staff member of a Smithfield assisted living facility has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a resident there.
The Smithfield Police Department said Saturday that 19-year-old Matthew Jason Beddingfield was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder.
WRAL's Rosalia Fodera was at the Walmart in Smithfield, where police said one person was shot on Friday.
The father of a suspect accused of opening fire in a Walmart parking lot on Friday said in court that his son had been robbed and was defending himself.
Bryan Mims, reporter
A man was found dead in a Smithfield home on Thursday morning, and police asked for the public's help in identifying a suspect.
Smithfield police said a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle just before noon Wednesday.
Jason O. Boyd, WRAL.com editor
The arrest of employees Wednesday night at a Selma strip club has cost the establishment its liquor license.
Nia Harden, WRAL reporter
Eight people were arrested on drug charges during a raid at Gentlemen's Playhouse in Selma on Wednesday night.
An emergency room nurse at Johnston Medical Center in Smithfield suffered life-threatening injuries after being stabbed by a patient Saturday evening.
Authorities were searching for a suspect after a robbery led to a police chase Thursday night in Johnston County.
A man walking home Saturday night was seriously hurt after being hit by two vehicles in Smithfield, authorities said.
