Four jailed after violent vehicle confrontation ends in La Grange
Four people were sent to jail Friday morning following an incident involving a man ramming his vehicle into another vehicle that had his child inside it.
Friday morning, Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division deputies from the D shift responded to a report of a domestic dispute with an assault and a vehicle accident on Davis Hardy Road in La Grange. After making contact with the victim and the victim’s mother, the victim told deputies that her children’s father, Charles Ellsworth Powell Jr., 33, of La Grange, had attempted to hit her vehicle with his vehicle, spun out and then rammed the rear of her vehicle twice before stopping due to significant damage to his vehicle. The victim continued to her children’s school, where she called authorities and waited for deputies to arrive.
Witnesses stated to LCSO investigators that Powell, along with a woman named Candy Marie Pero, 21, of La Grange had gotten into a separate vehicle and traveled back to the La Grange area. Deputies went to a residence in the 2500 block of W.C. Gray Drive in La Grange; when they arrived, a man — Dashawn Marquise Dail, 32, of Grifton — ran from the back of the residence but was later apprehended in a wooded area. After being caught, Dail gave deputies a fictitious name but was later identified.
Pero was inside the residence and arrested by deputies for her involvement in the hit-and-run incident. Pero and Dail were taken to the W.E. Billy Smith Detention Center, where they were taken before the magistrate, charged and placed in jail.
Deputies later returned to the W.C. Gray Drive residence and met with Tyrionta Tyquan Dail, 26, who resided at that place. After speaking with Tyrionta Dail, it was discovered he was on probation. N.C. Probation and Parole officers were contacted and came to the W.C. Gray Drive residence.
Deputies searched the residence and found Powell hiding; he was taken into custody without further incident. Powell was taken before the magistrate, presented with his charges and placed into jail. Tyrionta Dail was charged with resisting a public officer and taken into custody by the probation and parole officers; he was also placed in the Lenoir County Jail for violating parole.
The following are the names of the suspects and their charges:
Charles Ellsworth Powell Jr.
· Six counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill
· Four counts of misdemeanor child abuse
He received no bond due to being on pretrial release on other charges
Candy Marie Pero
· Felony accessory after the fact
She received a $15,000 secured bond
Dashawn Marquise Dail
· Wayne County order for arrest (speeding and no operator’s license)
· Wayne County order for arrest (speeding and operating vehicle with no insurance; fictitious/alter title/registration card or tag; no operator’s license; and driving a motor vehicle with no registration)
· Lenoir County order for arrest (felony first degree kidnapping; felony conspiracy; felony conspiring an armed robbery of business/persons)
· Felony identity theft
He received a $504,000 secured bond for the order for arrests but received no bond on the identity theft charge due to being on pretrial release
Tyrionta Tyquan Dail
· One count of resisting a public officer
· Multiple felony parole violations
He received a secured bond of $100,000.
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