Friday's Internet Edition, May 09, 2008.
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| Lamont Dewayne Dewalt and Karen Diane Shore have been arrested for first degree kidnapping. |
Now, two people have been arrested for the crime and both remain in jail awaiting their first court appearances.
On March 24 the Davie County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call about a female being taken from a home at gunpoint.
Shelia Tevepaugh had been taken by a black male from the home of a friend in northwestern Davie.
The suspect entered the home without permission and threatened everyone with a gun. He forced Tevepaugh to leave with him, according to Davie Sheriff Andy Stokes.
The witnesses stated that the suspect left with Tevepaugh in a gold colored Nissan and there was a female driving and a baby in the car. The black male told the witnesses that Tevepaugh’s son owed him money.
Officers spoke with Tevepaugh’s family and learned that the suspect was known as “Pooh.” The family was told to bring the money owed to a house in Yadkin or he was going to kill Tevepaugh, Stokes said.
The Yadkinville Police Department was contacted and started conducting surveillance of the address in Yadkin. Officers were preparing to go to the address when it was learned that Tevepaugh had escaped in Wilkes County. The Wilkes Sheriff’s Office responded and found Tevepaugh hiding in a stairwell of a church.
It was learned that Tevepaugh was taken to two locations. The first was a pond in Yadkinville where the suspect took her from the car and told her that he was going to “weight her down and throw her in the pond.” She was forced to call her family to attempt to get the money. The female suspect left the area and later returned to pick them up. Tevepaugh was then taken to a house in Wilkes ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.