Monday, January 13, 2025
Marisa Burkdoll
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Daniel Rogers Just Another Fatal MVA in Charlotte or Was It?
According to CMPD:
Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Major Crash Investigation Unit are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash in the Hickory Grove Division.
On January 8, 2025, at approximately 5:23 am, officers with the Hickory Grove Division, Charlotte Fire and MEDIC responded to the 5100 block Hickory Valley Court in reference to an overturned vehicle.
When first responders arrived, they located an unresponsive black male lying near the vehicle with extensive injuries. He was later identified as Daniel Rashawn Rogers, 26.
A Toyota Sequoia was located tipped over on its driver side and a metal garbage dumpster that was tipped over.
Mr. Rogers was pronounced deceased on scene by a CMPD officer.
Cedar's Take:
A whole lot of things just don't add up. It's a dead end parking lot. The Toyota Sequoia while a SUV and inherently top heavy isn't prone to falling over in parking lots, even at higher speeds.
The two females were basically uninjured.
Roger was issued a traffic citation on September 11, 2023 for failure to wear a seat belt. Later pleading guilty and paying $180.00 fine and costs of court.
This clown was stopped just a two weeks ago on December 27 when NCSHP lit him up again charging him with:
No Insurance
Failure to Wear a Seat Belt
Expired Registration and Tag
Speeding 70 in a 50
Driving While License Revoked
(Props to NCSHP for trying to save this victim from himself.)
The time seems odd as well. 5:23 am?
Tania Marie Newman has a long DMV record with various registration and unauthorized use citations.
Next up Corner's Cause of Death.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Road Rage Shooter Released on Unsecured Bond
His prior arrests for stolen vehicle, assault, speeding and no operators license resulted in voluntary dismissals by the meck DA.
He'll be back in front of (You Guessed Correctly) Judge Mercer this afternoon and we'll let you know if he's also given an unsecured bond.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Demont Forte
You might recall the endless revolving door that violent thug Demont Forte was enjoying while terrorising Charlotte since his first release from prison in 2011.
Forte was the poster child for low and cash free bail and liberal sentencing guidelines.
Most of Forter's crimes didn't make the news including a several hour armed standoff with CMPD's VCAT (Violent Criminal Apprehension Team) back in 2019.
But he made the 6 o'clock local news in 2021 when during a road rage incident he knocked a woman driver out cold hitting her so hard she flew out of her shoes.
His arrest and quick cash free bail release by Mecklenburg County District Court Judge Jennifer Fleet failed to make the headlines.
Finally someone noticed and he was indicted on a habitual felon change and convicted on April 8, 2024. He was promptly given a 6-8 year active prison sentence by Mecklenburg County Judge J. T. Davis.
He remains in the custody of the North Carolina Department of Corrections with projected release date of 2031.
Forte has a 1/2 dozen charges still pending but it is doubtful he'll stand trial on these new charges. The bottom line is he should not have been allowed to plead to manslaughter back in 1994 a charge he was only given probation.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Menace To Society Lavar Hall
I get a lot of "Heads Up" and "Check This Out" and nothing shocks me anymore. But a shooting in which four people are shot doesn't need a lot of talk to cause concern.
Yet local media tends to be dismissive of this sort of activity within the black community as they see it as business as usual.
WCCB reported this shooting as follows:
CMPD is investigating a shooting involving four people in east Charlotte that happened late Thursday night.
According to Medic, the shooting happened on the 8700 block of Purple Thistle Lane in east Charlotte.
The shooting appears to have happened between 10-11PM.
Medic says three patients have life-threatening injuries and one person has non-life-threatening injuries. They transported 2 patients with life-threatening injuries to Atrium CMC, and 1 patient with life-threatening injuries and 1 patient with non-life-threatening injuries to Novant Presbyterian.
CMPD has not released any information at this time.
And that is it, there is no follow up by the local media even for a mass shooting because no one died.
Why is this menace to society even allowed out on bond? Why was this thug not in jail awaiting trial on his prior weapons charges?
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Incarceration Saves Lives Diondre Bittle was 33
CP, has been preaching this a while.
The liberal loonybirds want to abolish prisons. They also want to abolish cash bail and claim that jail is racist. They sincerely believe that defunding the police and closing all the prisons will bring about a nirvana like utopia.
Liberal judges (they are all liberal) in Mecklenburg county routinely let career felons walk on little or no bail. The Mecklenburg DA dismisses cases at a rate of 9 in 10.
And so the final homicide of 2024 is a perfect example as to why this liberal thinking is dead wrong.
This is Diondre Bittle he was 33 when on December 30, 2024 he experienced a permanent dirt nap.
Mr. Bittle was a career criminal and felon and on the night he was murdered he should have been in the Mecklenburg County Jail awaiting trial on a habitual felon charge.
Bittle started his criminal career in high school thanks to the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System. Back in 2008 at the age of 18 was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, armed robbery and having a gun on campus. A year later he was convicted and sent to prison for 3 years and was released in April of 2012 but continued under post prison supervision which ended on January 13, 2013.
A month later in February 2013 he was arrested again for robbery and was convicted on June 6, 2013 but this time rather than an active prison sentence he was given probation.
On September 7, 2013 he was arrested on drug charges and again given probation.
Then on September 9, 2013 his probation on the February 2013 conviction was revoked and he begin a 3 month jail term. Bittle was released on Christmas Eve 2014.
In 2015 he was arrested and charged with Felony B&E (2 Counts) that occured on July 1, 2015.
In February of 2017 he was convicted of those two counts and the enhancement of Habitual Felon and sentenced to 6 years and 6 months in prison. He was released on September 25, 2023 having served nearly than 9 years of his life behind bars but remained under the supervision of his parole officer.
On August 11, 2024 he was arrested in Cabarrus County on a long list of motor vehicle violations.
At this point (August 12, 2024) his grandmother Natasha Asbury tried to intervene seeking help from the Cabarrus County Courts. Her "Petition for Adjudication of Incompetence" citing OCD, Schizophrenia, Manic Depressive Disorder and other issues was never heard.
Bittle's parole supervision ended on September 24, 2024.
Enter Sabrina Roth who on December 30, 2024 police say shot and killed Mr. Bittle
According to CMPD: On Monday, December 30, shortly after 9:15 p.m., officers responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call for service in the 8200 block of Dave McKinney Avenue. Upon arrival, officers discovered a male victim (Bittle) with a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced deceased on scene by Medic.
On Thursday, January 2, 2025, VCAT (Violent Criminal Apprehension Team) arrested Roth. Officers transported Roth to the Law Enforcement Center (LEC) where she was interviewed by homicide detectives.
At the conclusion of this interview, Roth was transferred into custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.
Roth is charged with Murder, Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon, Conspiracy to Commit Armed Robbery. She is currently being held without bond in the Mecklenburg County Jail.
Unconfirmed reports state that this was potentially a drug deal gone sideways. What is not clear is if CMPD Officers are still searching for a second suspect.
Cedar's Take:
What is clear is that Mr. Bittle should have been incarcerated. Not only for the good of society but for his own protection as well. The tragic failure of our courts, probation officers, the North Carolina prison system and frankly society as a whole to protect Mr. Bittle can not be dismissed.
Finally there is one more victim in this case Ms. Roth, who is also likely a life ended too soon.
For those that say good riddance to Mr. Bittle, I can't disagree. Death is an easy solution to a complex problem. But that's not an answer. Charlotte's homicide rate would be less than half if every felon who was murdered in 2024 was serving sentences that would have been handed down just a decade ago. Prison is not fun but incarceration saves lives.