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Floyd Guilty of Manslaughter Lumberton, N.C. Established 1870 www.robesonian.com Heartland Publications, LLC All Rights Reserved Saturday September 3, 2011 THE ROBESONIAN Volume 142 No. 135 Daily Sunday 50¢ $1 Floyd guilty of manslaughter ALI ROCKETT after the verdict was announced, but STAFF WRITER remained silent. Will be sentenced Sept. 15 The left side, where the Arnette LUMBERTON — After deliberat- family sat with friends, remained ing for 12 hours over two days, a jury was fatally wounded during an alter- may not be happy,” Sasser told the stoic. on Friday found William Drew Floyd cation at a parking lot courtroom audience. Both families declined to make a guilty of the voluntary manslaughter on Roberts Avenue that “It may be that both comment to The Robesonian. in the stabbing death of Chad Arnette. was prompted by a text parties are unhappy.” New sentencing guidelines make Floyd was taken into custody by message Arnette sent There was a collec- it dificult to project what kind of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Ofice to Floyd’s girlfriend. tive in-take of air as the sentence Floyd might face. A court after the verdict was read about 4:15 Before the verdict clerk read the verdict oficial who did not want to be named p.m. and ushered to the county jail, was read, Superior of guilty of voluntary said under old sentencing guidelines, where he will remain until a sentenc- Court Judge Douglas manslaughter. Floyd would have faced up to six years ing hearing on Sept. 15. Sasser warned those in Floyd’s relatives in prison for voluntary manslaughter. Floyd, 26, was on trial for second- FLOYD the courtroom to main- and supporters, who ARNETTE In addition to second-degree murder, degree murder in the death of Arnette, tain decorum regard- gathered on the right the jury also could have considered who died on Feb. 14, 2007, two days less of the outcome. side of the courtroom, behind the after he turned 21 years old. Arnette “At least one side of the party defense team, were visibly distraught See GUILTY, Page 3A Pleas dispose of 3 murder cases TEDDY KULMALA STAFF WRITER LUMBERTON — The District Attorney’s Ofice has reached plea bargains with three murder defendants. The irst deal was struck on Aug. 18 with Gary Dwayne Sinclair, who was originally charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to voluntary LEWIS manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Staff photo by ALI ROCKETT Jamell Lewis in State Department of Transportation officials said that by late next week Old Whiteville Road should be open. January 2010, Britt said. He’ll serve 97 to 126 months in pris- on. The end of the road Britt said Sinclair and MCNEILL Lewis were cousins, and Work on bridge nears completion that on Jan. 5, 2010, Lewis ALI ROCKETT community. went to a house STAFF WRITER “Work is nearly complete,” Joseph Bailey, in St. Pauls resident engineer for the DOT, said. where Sinclair LUMBERTON — Motorists who often Contractors are scheduled on Tuesday was staying travel Old Whiteville Road won’t be incon- to pour the last layer of asphalt over the with a relative, venienced much longer. 1,000-foot stretch of road that includes a new and the two SINCLAIR Oficials with the state Department of bridge, according to Bailey. He said that the “had an argu- Transportation say work on the road should department will need a few additional days ment.” When be completed late next week, putting an end to put the inishing touches on the project the older relative staying in to a detour that has been as lengthy as seven before the bridge can open. JOSEPH BAILEY: The DOT engi- the home with Sinclair tried to miles for some motorists. The highway is a The $500,000 project began on March 15 neer says he believes the project break the two up, Sinclair went major thoroughfare for people who work will be completed a week ahead in Lumberton and live in the Burnt Islands See ROAD, Page 6A of schedule. See PLEAS, Page 6A LUMBEE TRIBE ELECTIONS LRDA cancels fall pow wow STAFF REPORT activities and possibly a new location in the fall of 2012. The date has been 3rd iles for District 12 PEMBROKE — The 2011 Lumbee set for Oct. 26 through 28, 2012. Tribal Fall Pow-Wow, which was According to a LRDA spokesper- STAFF REPORT information to The Robesonian. scheduled for October, has been can- son, next year’s Spring Pow-Wow is Also running in for District 12, celed. still scheduled for May. PEMBROKE — A Hoke County which includes Scotland County, The Lumbee Regional The Fall Pow-Was had been spon- resident is the third person to ile Maxton and Alfordsville, re Jeffery Development Association board of sored by the association for more the for Lumbee Tribal Council Locklear and Walter Lowery. directors made the decision recently than 35 years, but this isn’t the irst District 12 seat, which is currently Friday marked the end of the based on “the economic conditions time it was canceled. The event was held by Shelley Strickland. second week of the iling period for faced by the agency,” according to a also canceled in 2008, but reinstated Linda Revels iled on Friday. She statement. the next year. did not supply any biographical See FILES, Page 3A The association plans to bring back Attempts to reach LRDA oficials the annual event with some new on Friday for comment failed. WEATHER INDEX OBITUARIES SPORTS Classifieds . 6B Cledell Baker, 55, Lumberton Comics . 5B Patsy Williams, 70, Lumberton Prep action Shelby Price, 71, Lumberton Editorial . 4A Maggie Snow, 72, Lumber Bridge Three Robeson Nation . 5A Christopher McLean, 28, Laurel Hill Sports . 1B Khole Lowery, infant, Pembroke County teams stay State . 2A Patricia Callahan, 55, Clarkton unbeaten in week World . 7A Latrina McDonald, Laurinburg Ralph Brown, 78, Bladenboro three. 90/67 Ellena Brown, 77, Elizabethtown Page 6A Page 1B Your Pit Stop For Savings... 12 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU... East 5th St. - Lumberton Union Chapel Road - Pembroke N. Pine St. - Lumberton Roberts Ave. - Lumberton Main St. - Raeford N. Walnut St. - Fairmont Broad St. - Southern Pines Village St. - Bladenboro Green St. - Clarkton Poplar St. - Elizabethtown Broad St. - St. Pauls Roll on in for your favorite snacks, drinks & party trays! Castle Hayne Hwy - Castle Hayne 2A — THE ROBESONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 STATE www.robesonian.com Hurricane Irene is working-class disaster Cleaning up conlicts with jobs Officials survey RAY HENRY new house on his lot. Not anymore. ASSOCIATED PRESS “We’re going to get through this, but the damage I’m going to probably move,” he said. to route 12 NAGS HEAD — A tourist speeding “My wife isn’t coming back here. I can’t on Hatteras to the beaches at Nags Head for Labor put her through that anymore.” Island. Day weekend could be forgiven for not He spent his morning phoning insur- Hurricane knowing a hurricane looded the North ance agents, cleaning debris and taking Carolina coast about a week ago. Blue an occasional smoke break. He igured Irene swept skies are back. Seafood and ice cream he could sell some of the wet engines through the shacks were open Friday. and gear in his garage for scrap metal. area cutting But a real disaster has befallen Rising water had loated the furniture local workers who serve tourists and around his living room. Drawers of the roadway in keep the towns running. A clerk at a socks and underwear stained dull grey five locations. Roanoke Island hardware store has to and brown by silt were drying in his See related muck out loodwater at her parents’ yard. story on page home in between waiting on customers. “You don’t know what to do,” he 3A. A local car mechanic says he cried while said. “You walk past something and describing to his bank tellers the lood - say, ‘Well, I’m not gonna keep that. I’m Associated Press photo ing that wrecked Stumpy Point, and just going to throw that out.’ You know how his evacuated wife broke her col- what I mean? And then you say, ‘Oh larbone. A woman along a rural high- no, I gotta keep that’. And it’s got mud way thanks God that she’s alive after on it. I gotta wash it. Now, the mud’s a hurricane-induced tornado smashed already dried, it takes forever.” her trailer to splinters. He said he cried Tuesday while dis- “It was a blue collar storm, that’s cussing the storm and his wife’s health what I’m calling it,” said Jason McNair, troubles at the bank. 37, a bread truck driver who was wait- “All of them were crying,” he said. ing to steer onto an emergency ferry “They had me crying. The people bound for Hatteras, which lost its only behind us, they didn’t do nothing for road to the mainland when the hurri- 20 minutes.” cane breached Highway 12. Tyrell inundated Hurricane Irene has been blamed for at least 46 deaths in 13 states and Conditions were also rough farther knocked out power to millions. Six west in Tyrrell County, more than 40 of the storm deaths were in North miles from Nags Heads. Flood waters Perdue: Irene damage Carolina. from the Albermarle Sound and the President Barack Obama signed a Alligator and Scuppernong rivers inun- disaster declaration for coastal North dated low-lying neighborhoods. The Carolina, covering the tourist destina- county is one of the state’s poorest, with now over $400 million tions as well as the less-afluent near- per-capita income at less than $17,000, by counties.
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