Elusive larceny suspect arrested after injury in wreck

Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Authorities arrested a Lenoir man Sunday who had eluded authorities since he checked himself out of a hospital last week.

Jeremy David Greene, 30, was found at a family member's home in Lenoir after the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office received an anonymous tip he was in the house, said Lt. Chris Brackett.

On Sept. 23, deputies tried to serve Greene with warrants charging him with misdemeanor larceny and failing to pay child support, said Capt. David Anderson. He jumped in a pickup and drove away, but wrecked. He was hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem with broken ribs and an head injury.

But Greene signed himself out of the hospital on Sept. 26, Anderson said. Hospital security was supposed to notify the Caldwell Sheriff's Office before Greene was released, but did not. Investigators had been looking for Greene since he left the hospital.

In addition to the previous misdemeanor charges, Greene has been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon and resisting authorities. He was being held on a combined bond of $61,870 at the Caldwell County jail.


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