Cherokee Elementary Awards for 2010

SUBMITTED By CHEROKEE ELEM. SCHOOL Awards Given in KG Only Best Leadership Lucian Davis, Christian Hensley, Santanna Buchanan, Aria Foerst, Donna Thompson Most Sharing Caidyn French, Amber Tramper, Joey Hornbuckle, Tehya Littlejohn, Robert Bird New Kituwah Academy...

Task Force seizes 36 Pounds of Pot

Drug Task Force Investigators arrested Christopher M. Gallegos, of Albuquerque, New Mexico on Thursday, June 3 and seized over 36 pounds of marijuana.   The arrest was made on McCoy Branch in Cherokee and was the result of a large scale, Interstate Drug Trafficking...

Lespier pleads Not Guilty to Murder Charge

ONE FEATHER STAFF REPORT ASHEVILLE – James Ernest Lespier, 31, from Cherokee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Asheville on one count of murder in connection with a fatal shooting which allegedly took place on May 18 in which 22-year-old Erien Amanda Smith...

Huskey indicted on Drug Charge

The Western District U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Friday, June 4 that a federal indictment has been filed against Richard Delano Huskey for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana. On May 6, Tribal, Federal, State, and Local Drug Agents served...