Landis man wields mean landscape timber

Published 12:00 am Monday, September 1, 2014

SALISBURY — J.T. Hall, 39, of Rice Street, Landis, was charged Saturday with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon and injury to real property.
The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reported Hall’s weapon of choice was a landscape timber he tried to push through the windows of Eugene Asbury’s truck so he could hit Asbury.
Damage to Asbury’s Ford 2004 F-150 was $200. Asbury’s address was given as Concord.
Hall’s bond was set at $1,000.
In reports from the Rowan County Magistrate’s Office:
• Brandon Moody, 32, of Rogers Street, Rockwell, was charged Saturday with possession of a firearm by a felon. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said he had a .22-caliber rifle in his possession.
Moody had been convicted of felonious possession and distribution of a meth precursor on Jan. 13. He was confined a month and 15 days on that felony.
Moody’s bond was set at $10,000.
• The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office charged Katerious Arnez Oaks, 25, of Hidden Oaks Drive, with failure to appear on charges of breaking, entering and larceny and larceny of a firearm.
Oaks is accused of taking jewelry. a .32-caliber pistol and $1,700 in cash from a Saw Road home in China Grove Aug. 11. Total value of the items taken was $2,735. Oaks was placed under $10,000 bond Sunday.