Bank Robbery suspect found in Lexington - Salisbury Post
Robbery suspect Randy Earl Asbury, 61, was arrested about 11:30 Wednesday night by Davidson County Sheriff’s deputies during a traffic stop in Lexington. Asbury was the subject of a manhunt that extended into Rowan County on Tuesday and into Wednesday after Asbury crashed a stolen car on a frontage road near the East Spencer exit on Interstate 85. He robbed the bank armed with a knife and left with... Multiple agencies were involved in the search, including the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, East Spencer and Spencer Police, Landis Police, the N. C. Department of Public Safety and the N. C. Highway Patrol. Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer, a medium security prison in West Virginia, on June 24, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Asbury was serving time in the West Virginia prison following a 2003 arrest in Rowan County after he robbed two Lexington banks. Police arrested a bloodied, then 49-year-old Asbury, who crashed the getaway car, a Mazda Protege that he’d test driven. He’d robbed Lexington State Bank in Davidson County and earlier in the week robbed a different Lexington State Bank. Asbury nearly ran over a Salisbury Police officer who had deployed stop sticks in that incident. Source: www.salisburypost.com
