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Pet Microchip Scan Station installed
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The new pet microchip scanner is outside Cabarrus animal control
on Betty carpenter drive (off N.C. 49).
CABARRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Division recently installed its first Pet Microchip Scan Station, now available outside Cabarrus County Animal Control at 244 Betsy Carpenter Place SW, Concord, NC 28025.
This self-service station allows community members to quickly scan a found pet for a microchip — helping reunite pets with their families before they ever have to enter the shelter.
How to scan
To scan:
• Follow the instructions listed on the signage above the scanners
• An audible beep will sound if a microchip is detected
• Scan the QR code inside the paw print on the sign for steps on how to notify the pet's owner
If you are unable to keep the animal while the owner is being located, contact Emergency Dispatch at 704-920-3000.
Additional contacts
Animal Shelter: 704-920-3288
Animal Control: 704-920-3292
"We are proud to bring the first station of its kind to our community and provide another resource to help reunite pets with their families while reducing unnecessary shelter intake," the sheriff's office posted on Facebook.
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Jackson to be honored in Greensboro
IN BRIEF
The Greensboro News & Record
The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be honored with a tribute at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in downtown Greensboro on Sunday.
The service, which is free to the public, will be in-person and available online, although registration is required.
Jackson, who died Feb. 17, had strong ties to the Triad. A 1964 graduate at N.C. A&T, he received the Lifetime Civil and Human Rights Award from the museum in 2018. After he was elected student body president and earned starting quarterback on the football team, he graduated and worked side-by-side with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was with King the day he was assassinated.
Jackson twice ran for president and founded the nonprofits Rainbow Coalition and PUSH to build on diversity. He was a frequent visitor to Greensboro and a longtime supporter of the sit-in museum.
Tours will be available of the museum, which commemorates the 1960 sit-ins at Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro. Four freshmen at N.C. A&T, who arrived before Jackson, helped spark a civil rights movement that spread across the South. Jackson would lead other protests in the city.
The 4 p.m. service includes video snapshots of his speeches, musical tribute, and a time for reflections and refreshments, according to museum officials.
A 911 call reporting a "suspicious person" in Asheboro, North Carolina, got weird when police discovered a man wearing only underwear and a cowboy hat, dancing in the street.
And it wasn't just any ol' dance. He was "doing the Fortnite Loser Emote, aka 'Take the L' dance," Asheboro police said in a March 2 news release.
It happened overnight Sunday into Monday on Uwharrie Street and, yes, booze was involved, officials said.
"If you do the Fortnite 'Take the L' dance in the street wearing nothing but boxers and a cowboy hat, of course you are subject to arrest," police wrote in a Facebook post.
The clownish dance is a Fortnite video game gesture, and involves making an L shape with fingers, pressing it to one's forehead, then high kicking from side to side. However, the dance has taken on a life of its own outside the game, and is frequently performed as a taunting gesture at competitions.
Details of why the man was dancing in the road were not released, but police say he was in his late teens and intoxicated.
The suspect was arrested and charged with being "intoxicated and disruptive and obstructing an officer," officials said.
6 charged in Siler City drug bust
The Sanford Herald
A drug investigation at a Siler City residence resulted in charges against six people following the execution of a search warrant on Feb. 20.
The Chatham County Sheriff's Office narcotics unit searched 306 W. 5th St. and arrested Damani Allison, 26, of the 1600 block of Moons Chapel Road, and Kami Barrera, 26, of the 400 block of W. 4th St.
Allison was held on a $5,000 secured bond and Barrera a $25,000 secured bond.
Others who have arrest warrants but were not arrested as of Tuesday, March 3, include: Lorenzo Nettles, 35, of 306 W. 5th St., Siler City; Faith Lynch, 23, of the 1500 block of Chapel Hill Road in Durham; Tahkwan Tunney, 29, of the 300 block of Burlingate Drive in Greensboro; and Eric Walters, 32, of the 500 block of Coapman St. in Greensboro.
Sheriff's office: Man shot his own leg
The Rock Hill Herald
A North Carolina man's odd story of being shot while exercising got even stranger when deputies realized he shot himself to avoid going to court, according to detectives.
It happened around 9 a.m. Tuesday in a residential neighborhood near Salisbury, the Rowan County Sheriff's Office said in a March 4 news release.
"Deputies ... were notified of a gunshot victim who had arrived at the emergency department at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center," the sheriff's office said.
"The victim ... reported that he had been exercising in the woods near the 2900 block of Old Mocksville Road when he was shot in the calf by an unknown person."
Deputies quickly noticed "inconsistencies" in the 24-year-old man's story, and their suspicions grew when witnesses contradicted his "version of events," officials said.
"Investigators also learned that (he) was scheduled to appear in court in Salisbury later that morning for a hearing," the sheriff's office reports.
"Investigators further determined (he) shot himself in an attempt to avoid appearing in court that morning, as he feared he would be sentenced to prison."
The shooting had actually taken place at a home on Pinevale Drive (about two miles west of Old Mocksville Road), and a search of the property found evidence to prove it, officials said.
The man was arrested after being released from the hospital, and charged with filing a false police report and resisting, delaying, or obstructing a public officer, officials said.
CORRECTIONS
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