Greensboro police responded to a robbery call at the K-Mart located at 1302 Bridford Parkway on Dec. 23 after a female suspect allegedly threatened a store employee with a knife. The suspect was observed placing items into a bag and left the business when confronted by the employee, according to police reports.

On Dec. 19, the Greensboro Police Department announced it had recovered 33 bells out of a total of 48 stolen from the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Police arrested Marion Corvona Jackson, 46, whose listed residence is the Beloved Community Center hospitality house on Arlington Street, and charged him with the theft of the bells.

An altercation between a 13-year-old boy and a 38-year-old man resulted in the shooting of the boys mother during a Dec. 9 incident in Winston-Salem. Police responded to a call of a shooting in the 4100 block of Morningside Drive at 6:39 p.m. They arrived on the scene to find Jawanna Yolanda Spease, 39, suffering from a gunshot wound to her abdomen.

Abdou Illa, 37, seems to have been consorting with the wrong kind of female when he took her phone call at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning. The woman reportedly asked Illa to meet her at Chapel Watch Apartments in north Greensboro.

A 45-year-old Randleman man died after suffering severe injuries related to getting caught in the augers of commercialsize wood chipper while working for a landscaping company in Winston-Salem on Nov. 29.

Tiffany Michelle Hunt, 19, was in the back bedroom her residence on Harvard Street in Greensboro on Nov. 19, according to police reports, when she heard a noise coming from the front.

The Winston-Salem police have charged two male teenagers with armed robbery in connection with an Oct. 28 incident in which a female Wake Forest student was robbed at gunpoint at an off-campus apartment complex. Winston- Salem police also charged the two suspects with an Oct.

During their investigation, the police found an AK-47 assault rifle, several spent shell casings, nine marijuana plants and a number of drug paraphernalia items.

Officers patrolled the Westover Terrace area and stopped a vehicle entering the high school parking lot. Police subsequently discovered air-powered pistols, six knives and a sword inside the vehicle and arrested Shan Wayne Rogers II, 21, and charged him with possession of weapons on school property.

On Oct. 19, Winston-Salem police responded to a report of an armed robbery at the University BP Station. A clerk was reportedly confronted by Clarence Lamont Chandler, who was armed with a metal pipe. Chandler allegedly struck the clerk with the metal pipe iand demanded money, at which time the clerk ran from the business.