Larceny suspect apprehended at Shell Station

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ROBBINSVILLE, N.C. – At approximately 1:15 p.m. Graham County Sheriff’s Office arrested a male at the Shell Station in Robbinsville for allegedly committing larceny.

On Wednesday morning, health department and social services employees discovered that catalytic converters had been cut from four of the county-owned vehicles. The surveillance footage showed two male individuals there after dark and appearing to tamper with county vehicles.

Last night around 1:00 a.m., a man matching the description of one in the county surveillance footage entered the Shell Station and stole between $150 and $250. Today, he returned to the location for unknown reasons and employees called the police. A clerk positively ID’ed the man on camera surveillance.

Deputies apprehended the man from the station’s bathroom where he was flushing the toilet. After a complete search of the car, no narcotics were found.

Graham County Sheriff’s Office later released the suspect’s name, Joseph Pressley, 32, of Marble, NC. He was charged with shoplifting and four felony counts of “injury to property to obtain nonferrous metals” or larceny of catalytic converters. His bond was set at $10,000.

He also has an outstanding warrant in Fannin County, Ga.

The second individual’s face did not appear on camera and the sheriff’s office requests assistance from the public to locate him.

Graham County Sheriff’s Office thanked the employees of the Shell Station for calling them when the clerk recognized Pressley. The Shell employees did not know about the catalytic converter theft.

 

Safely dispose of medications at Graham County Jail

Community, Press Release
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GRAHAM COUNTY, N.C. – NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) gave a second medicine dropbox to the sheriff’s office for Graham County residents to safely dispose of medications.
The box has been securely mounted near the entrance to the Graham County Jail, which is also under video surveillance to help prevent theft.
The SBI partners with Safe Kids North Carolina, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and local law enforcement to collect and safely destroy prescription drugs through Operation Medicine Drop. Operation Medicine Drop events typically take place statewide in the spring and fall.
Medications are collected by law enforcement personnel and delivered to the SBI for disposal. In June, 50 agencies dropped off meds, and 13,485 lbs., or approximately  10.1 million dosage units, were destroyed.
Safely disposing of old medications instead of flushing them down the drain prevents chemicals from reaching the water supply.
This new box at the entrance to the jail, along with the current one at the front entrance to the Sheriff’s Office are available to the public 24/7.
Photo courtesy of Graham County Sheriff Office.

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