Post by WaTcHeR on Apr 15, 2006 11:02:00 GMT -5
04/14/2006 - LUMBERTON, N.C. -- A former Robeson County sheriff's deputy this week became the second law officer to be arrested on kidnapping and robbery charges.
Patrick Ferguson, 34, surrendered to agents with the State Bureau of Investigation and was charged Wednesday with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of kidnapping, according to an arrest report.
Ferguson was jailed with bail set at $20,000.
Five other men have already been arrested in the case, including former detective Vincent Sinclair, who was indicted by a grand jury last year on two counts each of second-degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Sinclair is accused of using sheriff's office equipment and vehicles during a staged drug raid in Maxton on May 14, 2004. Authorities say the other men posed as police officers and held several people at gunpoint while the home was robbed.
The men kidnapped and beat Darius Bain before releasing him after a $150,000 ransom was paid, according to investigators.
Investigators say Ferguson, Sinclair, and the others had previously kidnapped two Virginia Beach men.
Others charged in the case are David Troy, 33, of St. Pauls; James Allen Black Jr., 33, of Red Springs; Carl Patrick Locklear, 30, of Maxton; and Michael Oxendine, 45, of Pembroke.
Patrick Ferguson, 34, surrendered to agents with the State Bureau of Investigation and was charged Wednesday with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of kidnapping, according to an arrest report.
Ferguson was jailed with bail set at $20,000.
Five other men have already been arrested in the case, including former detective Vincent Sinclair, who was indicted by a grand jury last year on two counts each of second-degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Sinclair is accused of using sheriff's office equipment and vehicles during a staged drug raid in Maxton on May 14, 2004. Authorities say the other men posed as police officers and held several people at gunpoint while the home was robbed.
The men kidnapped and beat Darius Bain before releasing him after a $150,000 ransom was paid, according to investigators.
Investigators say Ferguson, Sinclair, and the others had previously kidnapped two Virginia Beach men.
Others charged in the case are David Troy, 33, of St. Pauls; James Allen Black Jr., 33, of Red Springs; Carl Patrick Locklear, 30, of Maxton; and Michael Oxendine, 45, of Pembroke.