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Bowden in Ashvegas?

We’re not sure, but we’re spreading the rumor. Not sure why the Fla. State football coach would be visiting, but you never know.

McDowell mayhem

McDowell County has the best police blotter in the mountains. Here are a couple more examples. Check out the local newspaper here.

Drive-thru crash

A couple of dummies wrecked their car in the Old Fort Burger King drive-thru and ended up getting busted. Police said they found a “substantial” amount – 17 grams – of crack when they investigated the wreck.

You want fries with that?

Taking care of monster-in-law

A McDowell County jury convicted a former correctional officer for assaulting his ex-mother-in-law during an argument that ended up with said monster-in-law tossed to the floor and cuffed.

The 25-year-old dude accused of assault chose to represent himself in court (that’s always a bad sign). Here’s a neat twist – in an earlier court case, mom-in-law had been convicted of assaulting the dude in the same confrontation.

Here’s the story:

Monster-in-law, now the dude’s former mother-in-law, testified that she visited her daughter’s apartment on Riverview Drive on the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2004, to babysit her grandchildren.

She said a spat between she and her son-in-law began when he told her she had no right to discipline her grandchildren, who do not biologically belong to him.

The dude told the jurors that grandmom angrily came at him, pointing her finger and yelling obscenities.

As she stepped toward the dude, her left breast hit him on his chest, according to his testimony.

She said he then exclaimed, “So now you’re assaulting me.”

The dude claims monster-in-law spit on him. She said she coughed and may have accidentally done so.

The dude, a former prison correctional officer, carried a pistol strapped to his hip. He said he grabbed her by the arm, threw her to the floor and slapped cuffs on one of her hands.

She had just injured one of her shoulders and was in severe pain, she told the jurors.

Police arrived to find grandmom on her stomach on the floor and the dude kneeling on her back, the officers said.

The cops said that the dude said he wanted his mother-in-law charged with a felony for spitting on him since he was a law enforcement officer. The deputy told him, since he wasn’t serving in a law enforcement capacity at the time of the incident, spitting wasn’t a crime.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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