Piedmont man charged with statutory rape of child

>> FROM WXII 12 NEWS, THIS IS BREAKING NEWS. MARGARET: BREAKING NEWS ON THE WHITE HOUSE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. DEMOCRAT CORY BOOKER HAS DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. BOCA RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT HE WAS ENDING THE CAMPAIGN, WHOSE MESSAGE OF UNITY AND LOVE FAILED TO GAIN TRACTION IN A POLITICAL ERA MARKED BY CHAOS AND ANXIETY. THE U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY HAD STRUGGLED IN POLLING AND FUNDRAISING SINCE LAUNCHING HIS BID LAST FEBRUARY. HE DIDN’T HIT THE REQUIRED 5% IN POLLING TO QUALIFY FOR TOMORROW’S PRIMARY DEBATE IN IOWA ALSO BREAKING RIGHT NOW AT NOON, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST A PERSON WHO HIT A DEPUTY WITH THEIR CAR. THIS HAPPENED AT CHURCHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS STUDENTS ARRIVED FOR CLASS THIS MORNING. THAT’S ON HIGHWAY 150. WE’RE TOLD THE DEPUTY WAS DIRECTING TRAFFIC AT THE TIME. INVESTIGATORS HAVEN’T SAID HOW BADLY THAT DEPUTY WAS HURT IT IS ALSO NOT CLEAR IF THE DRIVER INVOLVED STOPPED AT THE SCENE. WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION. HAPPENING NOW, THREE ROWAN COUNTY TEACHERS ARE NOW ACCUSED OF SENDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PICTURES TO A STUDENT. DEPUTIES ARRESTED DONOVAN HERNANDEZ AND JUSTIN AVERY TODAY. ETHAN GROSE IS ALREADY IN CUSTODY. INVESTIGATORS SAY ALL 3 TAUGHT AT WEST ROWAN MIDDLE SCHOOL IN SALISBURY. THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS A STUDENT CAME FORWARD, AFTER RECEIVING AND SENDING INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA APPS FROM THE MEN. ALL 3 ARE CHARGED WITH INDECENT LIBERTIES WITH A MINOR LET’S TURN NOW TO YOUR WEATHER FORECAST. WE ARE LOOKING LIVE OVER GREENSBORO THIS AFTERNOON. METEOROLOGIST CARLA CASSIDY JOINS US. IT IS BEEN A RAINY MORNING ACROSS THE PIEDMONT TRIAD, CARLY. CARLY: SHOTS RIGHT, CLOUDY AND GLOOMY, DREARY, MAKES IT FEEL MORE LIKE A MONDAY. BEN IS ALL THE CLOUD COVER AND THE RATE, TEMPERATURE WISE, IT IS MILD AND UNSEASONABLY WARM. 69 IN WINSTON-SALEM, 55 IN MARTINSVILLE, 53 IN GALAX. ALL OF US ARE WELL ABOVE OR WE TYPICALLY ARE FOR OUR AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. GREENSBORO IS RARELY HAVE THE HEAVIER ACTIVITY. I HAVE THIS STOPPED THE MOTION SO YOU CAN SEE THE DIAGONAL LINE ACROSS THE AREA. BUT NOT ALL OF THIS IS FALLING TO THE GROUND, IT IS PICKING UP ON THE CLOUD COVER. ALL THE MOISTURE YOU SAW HANGING OVER IN THE AIR. THERE IT IS MAKING ITS WAY IT OFF TOWARDS THE NORTH OR EAST. IT WILL CONTINUE IN THAT TREND. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL LICKETY-SPLIT TO THE GROUND STAYS FURTHER OFF TO TFURTHER TO YOU ARE, YOU WILL NOT FIND QUITE AS MUCH OF THE RAIN FOR NOW. WE STILL KEEP THE RAIN CHANCE WITH US ACROSS THE STATE. WE STILL HAVE THIS STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE AREA AND THAT IS WHAT KEEPS THE RAIN CHANCES WITH US TODAY, TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY, THEN WE FINALLY GET A DRY DAY ON WEDNESDAY. WE WILL TIME THINGS OUT WAS MORE IN YOUR FORECAST COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. MARGARET: CARLY, THANK YOU. THE PIEDMONT TRIAD IS RECOVERING FROM SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE% WEEKEND. IN DAVIE COUNTY, A TREE FELL ON POWER LINES ON FARMINGTON ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY 801, CAUSING THIS FIRE. CREWS QUICKLY PUT OUT THE FLAMES. SEVERAL DOZEN PEOPLE IN DAVIE AND FORSYTH COUNTIES ARE STILL WITHOUT PPOWER THIS AFTERNOON. BEST HOUR THIS AFTERNOON — WITHOUT POWER THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ROUGH WEATHER IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. CHECK OUT THIS PICTURE SENT TO US FROM ASHEBORO. PEGGY TERHUNE SAYS GUSTY WINDS ON SATURDAY LIFTED HER PATIO CANOPY AND TOSSED IT ONTO THE ROOF OF HER HOME A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA, LEAVING A TRAIL OF DAMAGE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS AN EF ZERO TORNADO HIT THE COMMUNITIES OF PELZER AND PIEDMONT. SEVERAL TREES WERE UPROOTED AND BROUGHT DOWN POWER LINES. ONE TREE CRASHED DOWN ONTO A WOMAN’S BALCONY AND HER POOL. PEOPLE CONTINUING TO CLEAN UP THE DAMAGE TODAY. PEOPLE CONTINUING TO CLEAN UP THE DAMAGE TODAY. MAJOR CLEANUP IS UNDERWAY TODAY ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY FROM A WILD STORM SYSTEM. 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AS MULTIPLE TORNADOES SWEPT THROUGH , TEARING HOMES AND FAMILIES APART. SAM BROCK IS IN THE STORMS DOWN IN LOUISIANA. SANDRA THIS MORNING MILLIONS OF , AMERICANS ARE REELING FROM MOTHER NATURE’S WRATH. >> IT’S SOMETHING I NEVER WANT TO EXPERIENCE AGAIN. IT WAS SCARY. IT WAS REALLY SCARY. SAILFISH AFTER TORNADOES TORE THROUGH AT LEAST FOUR DIFFERENT SOUTHERN STATES. FLASH FLOODING FORCED RESCUES IN MISSISSIPPI AND CLAIMED A LIFE IN OKLAHOMA. CREWS HAVE BEEN WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO BRING BACK POWER TO THOUSANDS. THIS STORM IS PART OF A POWERFUL SYSTEM THAT RACED ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO FAR, 11 PEOPLE HAVE DIED, THREE EACH IN ALABAMA, TEXAS AND LOUISIANA, AND ONE IN BOTH OKLAHOMA AND IOWA. THAT INCLUDES JERRY AND MARY SUE FRANKS, A LOUISIANA COUPLE KILLED WHEN A TORNADO LIFTED UP THEIR MOBILE HOME AND TOSSED IT THE LENGTH OF TWO FOOTBALL FIELDS. IN OTHER CASES, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAFETY AND DANGER. RAZOR-THIN. >> I HAVE THANKED GOD SO MAN TIMES. I FEEL LIKE HE HAD HIS HANDS IN OUR HOMELAND OR PROP EDDIE AND OUR FAMILY. SAM: LAUREN GOLDEN AND HER HUSBAND INSISTED HER MOTHER COME OVER FROM NEXT DOOR. A TREE PUNCTURED HER MOTHER’S HOUSE, BUT THEIRS, JUST FEET AWAY, WAS UNTOUCHED. >> YOU COULD ACTUALLY FEEL THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE MOVING. SAM: WEATHER WHIPLASH, NOT JUST IN THE SOUTH. CHICAGO’S LAKESHORE UNDER WATER FROM STORM SURGE. IN OREGON, HIGH WAVES SWEPT A MAN AND HIS CHILDREN OUT TO SEA. HE SURVIVED, BUT HIS 7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER DID NOT. HIS YOUNG SON IS STILL MISSING. BACK IN LOUISIANA, RESIDENTS PICKING UP AND PITCHING IN, READY TO GET BACK TO NORMAL. WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING AS NEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO TRY TO HELP EACH OTHER, CUTTING DOWN BRANCHES, BURNING DEBRIS, AND GETTING PREPARED FOR THE CHARGES CHALLENGES AHEAD, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 30,000 CUSTOMERS AT ONE POINT WHO LOST POWER. AND THE TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN DIPPING INTO THE THIRTIES THIS MORNING. IN LOUISIANA, SAM BROCK, NBC NEWS. MARGARET: NEW AT NOON, A GUILFORD COUNTY JUDGE HAS RESIGNED AMID A STATE MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION. THE JUDICIAL STANDARDS COMMISSION SAYS MARK CUMMINGS STEPPED DOWN LAST MONTH AND AGREED TO NEVER RUN FOR A STATE JUDICIAL OFFICE AGAIN. CUMMINGS HAD BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE SEPTEMBER 2018. HE WAS ACCUSED OF ALLOWING COURT DOCUMENTS TO BE FALSIFIED AND FORCING PROSECUTORS TO DISMISS CHARGES. CUMMINGS HAS DENIED ANY WRONGDOING ALSO NEED RIGHT NOW AT NOON, AN ALAMANCE COUNTY MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING ELECTRICITY. DEPTIES ARRESTED 36-YEAR-OLD LUKE CLARK AT A HOME ON THOMPSON MILL ROAD. THAT’S SOUTH OF GRAHAM. INVESTIGATORS SAY HE HAD AN ILLEGAL HOOKUP TO POWER LINES, AND STOLE OVER $2200 IN ELECTRICITY FROM DUKE ENERGY. CLARK IS CHARGED WITH FELONY LARCENY. LOOKING AHEAD, ANOTHER COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT TRIAD WILL DISCUSS A RESOLUTION THAT IMPACTS GUN OWNERS. STOKES COUNTY WILL DEBATE SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS AT THE COUNTY COMISSIONERS MEETING. THAT’S TONIGHT AT 6:00. IF IT’S APPROVED, THE RESOLUTION WOULD LARGELY BE SYMBOLIC. WILKES AND SURRY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HAVE PASSED SIMILAR MEAS

Mebane man charged with statutory rape of child

Updated: 3:15 PM EST Jan 13, 2020

A Mebane man is charged with the statutory rape of a child after investigators looked into his relationship with an underage female, according to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit.Detectives began the investigation on Aug. 12 and interviewed the underage female and Daniel Brian Straughan Jr., 28. The two were sexually involved from 2017 through 2019, detectives said.Click the video player above to see headlines from WXII 12 News.After reviewing the case with the District Attorney’s Office, Straughan is charged with statutory rape of a child. His bond is set at $75,000.

MEBANE, N.C. —

A Mebane man is charged with the statutory rape of a child after investigators looked into his relationship with an underage female, according to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit.

Detectives began the investigation on Aug. 12 and interviewed the underage female and Daniel Brian Straughan Jr., 28. The two were sexually involved from 2017 through 2019, detectives said.

Click the video player above to see headlines from WXII 12 News.

After reviewing the case with the District Attorney’s Office, Straughan is charged with statutory rape of a child. His bond is set at $75,000.