North Carolina: Agents recover suspect device during search for an armed man in Hoke County


A multiagency search was underway Monday evening for an armed man who eluded authorities after a traffic stop that started in Robeson County.

It all began about 1 p.m. after agents with the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division (ALE) tried to stop the suspect on Cope Road in Red Springs. The driver, later identified as Jonathan Daniel Oxendine, 32, refused to stop and led agents on a high-speed chase. He eventually stopped his car on Singleton Drive and got out with a handgun. He ran into the woods off Balfour Road, and agents chased him into the woods and down a path but stopped when they discovered what looked to be an improvised explosive device (IED) with a trip wire across the path near where Oxendine lives. ALE then called in the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) Bomb Squad.

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Source: ABC11 News


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