The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 23

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sunday July 2 1995 3B Ga woman kidnapped robbed Gunman takes off in her car By VINNY KUNTZ Staff Writer A woman hoping to find a job in Charlotte had her car belongings and sense of security stolen Saturday still shaking from the woman Molly Hinson told a reporter seven hours after her kidnapping ended Police and Hinson 45 gave this account: Hinson was in a car waiting for a return call at a pay phone at 3801 South Blvd at 9:10 am Saturday when a man approached the passenger Win dow of her 1991 Geo Metro The door was locked but the window was partially rolled down The man asked for a cigarette and she gave him one Then the man reached in unlocked the door and threatened her with a gun The gunman demanded money Hinson said she had none The man rifled through her wallet and found a bank card The man hoping to use the card in a bank machine ordered Hinson to drive Hinson said she hesitated because for one thing she knew her account was empty and feared what the man would do when he was unable to get cash said driving anyway or probably going to shoot she said Hinson drove about seven blocks north on South Boulevard As she approached the EZ-Serve at Ideal Way and South Boulevard she noticed a lot of people Seeing her chance to escape she pulled the car over and began screaming The gunman then forced her out of the car as he climbed into the seat and sped off north She was dragged 6 to 8 feet and suffered bruises and scratches Inside the stolen car which actually belongs to stepfather were two suitcases two overnight bags a Walkman a clock radio and more Locally Grown Tomatoes everything I have is in the she said got all my pictures in there and everything" Hinson is from Rincon Ga and is staying with relatives as she seeks a job in Charlotte The suspect was described as a 5-foot-9 black man in his early 20s with a mustache and slim build He was wearing jeans and a dark shirt The stolen car is a 1991 blue Geo Metro with Georgia license plate RER-322 Produce Is Now Coming In! lb 59 51 $099 (Sm Bale Peaches Silver Queen Corn Pine Straw Baskets of Fresh Produce 8am-8pm Sun 10am-6pm erators a stay Saturday night less than 24 hours after payouts on the machines ended in 12 SC counties US District Judge Ross Anderson signed a temporary injunction about 7 pm Saturday that prevents authorities in those 12 counties from banning payouts or seizing video-poker machines said Dick Harpoot-lian a Columbia attorney who represents the operators Under the injunction videopoker machines can stay put and operators can continue payouts Anderson scheduled a hearing for 2 pm Friday Aiken Abbeville Anderson Chester Chesterfield Cherokee Greenwood Lancaster Oconee Pickens York and Union counties banned the payouts last year Spill at Sampson County hog farm is disclosed RALEIGH A second hog-waste lagoon breached its dike on June 2 1 the same day as the Onslow County accident that sent 25 million gallons of waste-water flowing into tributaries of the New River according to state environmental officials The spill at a Sampson County hog farm resulted in the release of a million gallons of hog waste into a tributary of the Cape Fear River but apparently caused only minor environmental damage The disclosure was made Friday just as the National Pork Producers environmental committee huddled in Washington to discuss among other things the fallout from the Onslow County spill Edited by Crystal Dempsey Mecklenburg official faces DWI charge Assistant Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones was charged early Saturday with driving while impaired after being stopped at a DWI checkpoint Capt Dickson Skipper said Jones 45 of 9322 Sardis Rd was arrested shortly after midnight after driving up to a It and Lose checkpoint without his headlights on Officers at the checkpoint in the 1800 block of Milton Road detected the odor of alcohol on him according to the police report Jones was released Saturday from the Mecklenburg County jail Jones said Saturday night that his car headlights were on at the checkpoint He had no further comment Police on Thursday began a It and Lose campaign designed to nab drunken drivers during the holiday weekend Police will set up road checkpoints through Tuesday Around The Carolinas Video-poker payouts back in SC for now ANDERSON SC A federal judge gave video-poker op 99! $099 $-99 ib Man shot to death in northwest Charlotte Unsure of motive police seek gunman Watermelon Jumbo Cantaloupe Hanging Full Line OPEN Mon-Sat 9 4th OF JULY Woman to serve 6-month term in paternity blood-test fraud why did you cross she said The man then shot Beatty said Jackson adding that she fled to a room upstairs with her boyfriend They barricaded them- selves in the room until the suspect left the apartment Police said the suspect was a 5-foot-10 black man in his mid-20s He had a medium build and weighed about 150 pounds Jackson said Beatty was a nice guy who was good with kids and had a big heart although he had a troubled past was trying to make it He was paying child support and he was on parole but yeah he was trying to make she said Beatty was paroled from prison in November after serving nearly four years of a 12-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter police records show He originally was charged with with first-degree murder in the Sept 30 1990 shooting death of Marvin Fox 32 of Cedar Greene apartments on Frew Road in Charlotte Fox had been drinking beer with a friend outside apartment when a man jumped from behind some bushes and began firing The motive police said at the time was a dispute over money came back negative and Melton was not required to pay child support In 1993 investigators received a tip that somebody had been tampering with blood tests in paternity cases That led them to arrest Weary Two weeks ago a jury convicted her of corporate malfeasance falsifying company records and obtaining property by false pretenses The judge Friday also placed Weary on probation for five years and required her to complete 100 hours of community service A Charlotte man was slain early Saturday in an apartment on Griers Grove Road in northwest Char- lotte Police responding to a reported shooting at 5 am Saturday found Ephraim Allen Beatty 23 shot in the head in an apartment in the 1800 block of Griers Grove Road He was pronounced dead at the scene which is off Beatties Ford Road Homicide Investigator Gary McFadden said witnesses gave police a description of the gunman He said police were unsure of a motive and whether the victim and suspect knew each other The shooting happened in an apartment occupied by Teresa Jackson her boyfriend and others Jackson 31 said Beatty whom she recently had befriended was sleeping in the living room when the suspect entered the first floor of the apartment The suspect gained entry by barging in as someone else was leaving she said The suspect pulled out a handgun and demanded to see Beatty The gunman approached Beatty in the living room and said PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE A A A PtwoTorone! 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