“Justice has been served.” Those were the words of Marcus McLean after a Catawba County jury found a Hickory man guilty of first-degree murder in the death of McLean’s mother, Iris Ranae Robinson, on Thursday, May 22, 2025, bringing a … Read More
A Morganton man will serve life in prison without parole after he was found guilty of second-degree murder and murder of an unborn child at the conclusion of a nearly two-week trial in Burke County Superior Court on Thursday, April … Read More
Maynor Javier Yanes Basquez, 36, of Hickory, was sentenced to serve 57 to 75 years in prison following his conviction for multiple counts of trafficking methamphetamine and flee to elude arrest with a motor vehicle along with maintaining a vehicle … Read More
William Lavar Brawley, 41, of Morganton, was sentenced to a prison term of 18 to 23 years on jury convictions for trafficking fentanyl during Burke County Superior Court on Monday, December 9, 2024. The Honorable Carla Archie, Superior Court Judge … Read More
A Catawba County jury found a Hickory man guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury at the end of a trial covering parts of four days on Thursday, November 21, 2024, in Catawba … Read More
A Newton man will spend 152 to 248 years in prison after a Catawba County jury found him guilty on 19 counts of sexual offenses with two minor female victims. The jury needed less than an hour to convict 51-year-old … Read More
A Catawba County jury needed less than an hour of deliberation to find a Hickory woman guilty of habitual larceny on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, to conclude a two-day Superior Court trial. Ashley Hoffman, 38, was sentenced to an active … Read More
A Conover man will spend six to eight years in prison after a jury found him guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine by possession and transportation on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at the conclusion of a trial in Catawba County. The … Read More
A Conover man will serve nearly nine to 11 years in prison after a Catawba County jury found him guilty of drug offenses, and he admitted to his status as a habitual felon. Derrick Shay Bishop, 40, was found guilty … Read More
A Hickory man will spend at least 45 years in prison after a Catawba County jury found him guilty of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Kevin Maurice Linder, 46, … Read More