Category: Press Releases

The Carter County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate a Saturday morning shooting that left one man dead. Deputies were dispatched to Hillside Drive in the Sinking Creek community at approximately 1 a.m. after multiple people called and reported shots fired in the area. When they arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound to…

Read more Sheriff’s Office Conducting Homicide Investigation After Shooting on Hillside Drive

Investigators with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s assistance locating a suspect believed to be responsible for a shooting that took place near Johnson City Friday night. 37-year-old Elijah Adam Taylor is charged with two counts of attempted murder after witnesses said he…

Read more Investigators Searching for Suspected Shooter on Attempted Murder Charges

It's that time of year again, and we are raising money for our holiday Shop With a Cop event! Last year, we did a No Shave November fundraiser that was so successful, we've allowed deputies to grow their beards out year-round in exchange for a donation. The result is we'll be able to have twice…

Read more CCSO Raising Money for Annual Shop with a Cop Event – Donate Here

A jury in Carter County Criminal Court found a Roan Mountain man guilty of the rape and sexual battery of a minor Thursday evening. 39-year-old Joshua Adam Hill was convicted of two counts of aggravated rape. He was charged in May 2019 after deputies received a report…

Read more Roan Mountain Man Found Guilty of Raping a Child

Deputies of the Carter County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a fatality that occurred during a structure fire Sunday night on Dayton Hayes Circle near Elizabethton. The West Carter County Volunteer Fire Department, Hampton Volunteer Fire Department and deputies were called to a report of a fire around 9:30 p.m. 83-year-old Mary Lou Livingston was found unresponsive…

Read more One Woman Dead in Structure Fire, Sheriff’s Office Investigating

UPDATE: As of October 1, both suspects have been taken into custody. 18-year-old Casey Hayden was arrested by deputies, and 23-year-old Israel Harrah turned himself in at the Carter County Detention…

Read more Suspects in Church Vandalism Charged

Deputies of the Carter County Sheriff’s Office arrested two suspects wanted for crimes in Maine early Friday morning in Hampton. 51-year-old Neil Roy Canney and 49-year-old Selena Ann…

Read more Two Fugitives Arrested in Hampton, One Convicted Murderer

Due to inaccuracies being reported concerning the investigation into the disappearance of Thomas Hastings in the Roan Mountain Community, and subsequent recovery, we would like to take this opportunity to clear up some misinformation which is currently circulating.

Read more Sheriff Lunceford’s Statement on the Thomas Hastings Investigation

Deputies with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office took a man into custody Monday afternoon in the Fish Springs area, and investigators discovered a human body in his car. The High Point, North Carolina Police Department contacted CCSO earlier that afternoon with information that a 24-year-old Michael Louis…

Read more North Carolina Man Arrested in Carter County with Body in His Car

Officers with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office and Elizabethton Police Department Joint Drug Task Force carried out a search warrant Tuesday which led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer. Following a months-long investigation, narcotics officers obtained the search warrant for the residence of 31-year-old James…

Read more Joint Investigation Leads to Arrest of Suspected Drug Dealer