The ordeal began when a 71-year-old investigator for the Raleigh Attorney’s Office attempted to serve Sheriff Tracey Carter with a court subpoena in a civil suit. Robert Wade said he was unable to serve the subpoena at the police department, so instead, he went to Carter’s home.
However, Carter did not open the door for the investigator. Wade alleges that just as he was leaving, the sheriff walked out of the house and blocked his truck. Apparently hell-bent on not being served, Carter then sent for his deputies to arrest the investigator for trespassing and for holding a concealed weapon. Wade was then held on a $20,000 bond.
Raleigh attorney Kieran Shenahan argued before Judge Terrence Boyle that the arrest aimed to obstruct the service of subpoena. Boyle subsequently signed the restraining order against the sheriff and his deputies, who are now being forced to testify in the upcoming civil suit against the sheriff’s department.
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