Corey Cheeks Sr.
On June 18, 2013 officers with the Henderson Police Department arrested Corey Cheek Sr., 37, of 315 Davis Street, Henderson after a short foot chase. Officers had been attempting to locate Mr. Cheek for outstanding warrants and received a tip from a concerned citizen of his whereabouts.
Mr. Cheek was identified as the suspect in the larceny of eleven batteries and cables from Auto Mart of Henderson, 133 Raleigh Road, which occurred around December 12, 2012. Value of the stolen items was listed as $2750.00. The investigating officer, W.R. Aiken, was able to locate some of the stolen items at Sadler’s Recycler on J.P. Taylor Road, Henderson. With the cooperation from the management of Sadler’s the officer was able to identify Corey Cheek as the individual who possessed the property.
Mr. Cheek was charged with one count of first degree trespassing, eleven counts of breaking and entering to a motor vehicle, eleven counts of larceny of motor vehicle parts, eleven counts of injury to personal property, one count of possession of stolen property, and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses.
Mr. Cheek received a $175,000 secured bond. He was placed in the Vance County Jail pending a court hearing on August 13, 2013.
The Henderson Police Department regularly communicates with local metal recyclers and encourages citizens to report any suspicious individual(s) and activity to the police.
There should be a law against buying old batteries in Vance County, they are all stolen, the thief gets about $3 and those that get ripped off get a fortune in time, money and trouble stolen from them, as well as the battery. Mr. Used Battery Dealer – the next time you get some nice person in wanting to sell you used batteries, tell them you want their picture and thumb print first before you buy them and see what happens.
I believe there are a lot of people in Vance County who would not work in a pie factory. They had rather steal, sell drugs and live off welfare. What a great society we have become.
On I disagree with you. Being a thief is work, not a type of work I will do because the hours are long, the pay is low, and the benefits are costly. Hear me out before blasting me. A thief must work seven days a week with very erratic hours. There is time spent finding stuff to steal without getting caught. Finding someone you “trust” who will pay for the stolen goods. Then there is the actual act of stealing. The pay is low. That $500 flat screen tv the thief stole is worth what to the pawn shop operator, the salvage yard operator, or individual buyer of the stolen tv, $50? For sake of this argument the thief worked 8 hours to steal then sell to the pawn shop your tv. The thief earned $6.25 per hour or $2.00 less than minimum wage. The costs of all benefits are paid by the thief out of the wages earned. Some of the benefits include buying cheaply made pants that you need one hand to hold up or cheap jewelry to hang around your neck like an iron collar. There is also the occasional free cab ride to the night’s- in-hotel on Breckenridge Street where sharing a windowless room with a bunch of people you cannot trust. Being a thief is hard work not the type of hard work you or I are willing to do.
the apple didn’t fall far from the tree is this case did it? Where were the local BLACK CHURCHES and community activists when they saw this man’s child starting the criminal lifestyle? There is a local Church in Henderson that has the word “LIFE” in it that does just as much if not more for young African American children than any of the BLACK Churches!!!! Guaranteed…..watch for the buses on Wednesday afternoon picking up kids in the Flint Hill area…..its not a Black Church that is picking them up.
Black or White, intervention is not in the hands of the churches but in the hands of everyone in the village who gives a hoot. ( I didn’t realize minimum wages went up to $8.25 an hour!)
Copper you may be right……..Here’s an “interesting” observation that was witnessed 1st hand at one of the many FOREIGN owned convenience stores in Henderson. A car pulls up with what appears to be 2 druggies by the way they were talking and there teeth. They had the car packed to the ceiling with sodas that I heard one of them say were on sale @ Walmart. What happened next should be a crime. They took all the drinks(at least 15/20 cases) into the store and got CASH from the clerk in exchange for the sodas. I heard the one druggie say that they still had about $60 dollars left on the EBT Card and they were headed back to Walmart and he asked the clerk was he interested in buying anymore sodas should they bring them. The clerk replied said that he would buy ALL that they brought and to spread the word to their buddies. I’m not sure how much they got paid but it was CASH and seemingly now one of them has an EBT Card with what is about to be no more $$$ on it until next month. Was that the way the EBT Card was meant to be used? More or less it seems that the taxpayers and the store clerk were footing the bill for these 2 druggies to get their next load!!! The clerk will not feel the pinch as bad b/c he will make $$ off the sodas but that was just one example of how bad things are in Henderson.
Food Lion and Walmart both sell carts filled with soft drink specials –the “customers” seem to be the owners of some of the convenience stores as well as many others–I always thought there was a limit on specials.. The store owners are profiting when they kite their price per can.
Seems like grocery store managers are looking the other way–just my opinion.
Uh oh…I’ll try not to get on my soap box regarding the general use of EBT cards (which we finance). IF there were realistic limits on products covered by the cards, we’d actually have healtier and more intelligent recipients. One can’t buy personal hygiene products, including toilet paper, but check out the loads of processed foods, sodas and convenience foods loading the carts at check-out. Most folks pooh-pooh tobacco but turn a blind eye to all the other ‘poisons’ called food. We have a growing obesity problem but do not teach nutrition in school. As my dear friend often says “If I were the Queen” I’d outlaw the purchase of all non-nutritious food products on our dime (EBT) and make it mandatory to pass a food and nutrition course before graduating high school. Cooking would be a required skill, as would budgeting and cleaning. EBT recipients would be required to take a class on healthy eating, including moderation. We surely would decrease the number of hungry children attending school and stop the panic over these same children not having enough to eat during the summer. Health and intelligence begin with good nutrition. It’s like putting rubbing alcohol in a gas tank and then wondering why the car doesn’t work right. A brain and body cannot function properly without the right nutrients. I often wonder if there’s a plot to undermine the health of our ‘poor’…who ultimately end up with long term, early onset chronic health issues. Enough said. My soap box is getting a tune-up. No cost to the system.
Good post Copper