Ross accompanied the girl and her mother to the appointment, but allegedly tried to flee after they found out she was pregnant, Brewer said. At that time, Ross gets up and runs out of the doctor s office, Brewer said. Ross was later found and arrested near Castle Hayne.
Ross had dated the girl s mother for several years. The girl told law enforcement he sexually abused her, according to Brewer.
The Pender County Sheriff s Office initially responded to the scene, and notified the New Hanover County s Sheriff s Office because the family had recently moved to New Hanover County.
The charges Ross is facing in Pender County stem from allegations in the months leading up to July 2020, said James Rowell, the commander of the civil division of the Pender County Sheriff s Office.
A 911 call made in 2019 led to dozens of charges against three people accused of smuggling Honduran women and children into the United States and holding them against their will for free labor.
The Pender County Sheriff s Office responded to the emergency call on Aug. 9, 2019, to investigate the account of a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard in the northern part of Pender County. She said she was not free to leave and was shocked with a Taser by the owner of the house.
Martha Zelaya-Mejia, 37, a citizen and national of Honduras residing in Fayetteville, Blas Antonio Celaya-Padilla, who is Zelaya-Mejia s brother, and David Darnell Whitehead, 42, who is Zelaya-Mejia s spouse and also lives in Fayetteville, are all named as co-conspirators in an indictment filed on Oct. 28. The indictment was immediately sealed and warrants issued for all three.
New Hanover man jailed on $7M bond; accused of sexually assaulting, impregnating girl Cory Scott Ross (Source: NHCSO) By WECT Staff | March 3, 2021 at 11:14 AM EST - Updated March 3 at 1:23 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A New Hanover County man is in jail under a $7 million bond after deputies say he sexually assaulted and impregnated a 12-year-old girl last year.
Cory Scott Ross, 28, was arrested on Tuesday on numerous statutory rape and sex offense of a minor charges following his release from prison, jail records indicate.
A spokesperson for the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office said detectives first received a report of the alleged sexual abuse on July 8, 2020, after the victim went to a doctor’s appointment and found out she was pregnant. A DNA test would later confirm Ross was the father, the spokesperson said.
BURGAW It’s been a tough year for 63-year-old veteran Bruce Benson.
In April he was laid off from his management job at a calibration lab due to the Covid-19 pandemic, then informed he wouldn’t be coming back to work. In May one of his best friends, a Vietnam veteran, fell and broke his back. He said he spent several months driving back and forth to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, helping him and his wife adjust to his paralysis from the waist down.
But the dagger came on a stormy Saturday morning in mid-August, when deputies with the Pender County Sheriff’s Office pulled onto his driveway in response to a welfare call that was made because Benson hadn’t attended a scheduled church event earlier that morning. One of the responding deputies attended the same church and knew Benson, according to the PCSO.
Arrests made in theft of catalytic converters
Arrests made in theft of catalytic converters By WECT Staff | February 26, 2021 at 9:12 AM EST - Updated February 26 at 12:18 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -Two people are accused of stealing catalytic converters in the Burgaw area.
According to the Pender County Sheriffâs Office, Christian Houston and Britney Guzman, both of Harrells, N.C., were arrested on Feb. 22 and charged with multiple counts of felony larceny of motor vehicle parts, injuring or tampering with motor vehicles and conspiracy to commit felonious larceny.
âThey were charged with the larceny of a converter from the C&G Auto sales in Burgaw and the larceny of another converter and damage to another vehicle at the Pike Creek AME Church outside Burgaw,â a news release states. They are also being charged with other larcenies across Pender, Duplin and Sampson counties. As the case is still being followed up on, further charges for the listed subjects and