Rhode Island Rescues
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island.
The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?”
In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter House a rare surviving waterfront property with deep ties to Newport’s history might be irretrievably lost. The residence was no longer needed by the Rhode Island Catholic Diocese, which had used it for a convent, and its survival was in jeopardy. So concerned was Benson that he and John Perkins Brown, whose Georgian Society also wished to save Hunter House, decided to speak with the Warrens. Benson and Brown traveled to the couple’s winter residence in New York City to warn, “the grea
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On Monday, William Hunter, 21, from the Roanoke Rapids area, turned himself in to the Halifax County Sheriffâs Office, according to a press release from Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Bobby Martin.
William and Leon Hunter, 36, also of the Roanoke Rapids area, were sought in regard to a Sept. 14 incident, when officers with the RRPD responded to the Baymont Inn on Old Farm Road, in reference to a male subject being shot. When officers arrived, they located the subject, who had a gunshot to the head. The victim, Aaron Martin, a 25-year-old male from Weldon, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators were able to develop information they were able to follow up on, which led them to obtain warrants on Leon Hunter and William Hunter for the murder of Martin. Investigators were also able to obtain warrants on Sari Fakhri Yousef for accessory before the fact and felony conspiracy. Yousef was arrested by Rocky Mount Police Department on Dec. 4, and released on a $60,000 secured bond.
Wednesday
Shortly after 7 p.m., agents of the Halifax County Sheriffâs Office were in the area of Wendover Lane in Roanoke Rapids following up on drug complaints. Agents had received complaints of possible drug activity, several cars going to a residence staying a short time then leaving throughout the night.
Agent B.J. Murphy stopped a vehicle leaving the Wendover Lane residence on West Tenth Street near Colonial Drive for a motor vehicle violation.
During the search, smoking pipes and cocaine were seized.
Murphy cited the driver, Wendy Wells, 54, of Roanoke Rapids, with a North Carolina Uniform Citation for possession of drug paraphernalia. Murphy arrested and charged Melissa Christine Trezza, 37, for felony possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A Rocky Mount man is charged in Halifax County District Court with felony conspiracy and accessory before the fact in the murder of a man nearly three months ago at