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Student riding school bus threatened with knife

Monday, February 08, 2010 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend |

Updated Monday, May 23, 2011 2:38 PM

A West Rowan High School student pulled an 8-inch knife on another student while on a school bus — trying to force him to change seats.

Paul Allen Cross, an 18-year-old was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a 15-year-old.According to the a report filed on Feb. 4 with the Rowan County Sheriff's Office, the incident occurred on Jan. 29 with a student assaulted.

Other reports or arrests from the Sheriff's Office:

- Two people were charged with fighting on the East Rowan High School campus on Feb. 4. Michael Morton Cook, 17 and Timothy Wayne Johnson, 20, were charged with affray.

- A Salisbury Rowan Head Start bus was vandalized at 699 Cannon Farm Road. The windshield was broken when someone threw a plastic bowl of food at the the bus, breaking the windshield.

The incident happened Feb. 4 near the intersection of Cannon Farm Road and Homer Corriher Road.

- Christopher Lee Russell, reported the theft of money from a recycling trailer at 440 S. Enochville Ave., Kannapolis.

- An ATV owned by Darren Eugene Safrit was stolen from 220 Eastside Drive, China Grove between Jan. 15 an Jan. 18.

- Lee Roy Barnes, 52, Mount Ulla, was charged with felony breaking and entering.

- Christopher Todd Overcash, 24, was charged with felony assault by strangulation.

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