Durham City Council member Cora Cole-McFadden says she will be seeking reelection to her Ward 1 seat in the fall, rather than running for mayor. Cole-McFadden made the brief announcement at the start of the council’s regular meeting Monday night. Mayor Bill Bell had endorsed Cole-McFadden for the upcoming mayoral race. After eight terms as […]
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Durham Man Detained by ICE Awarded Bond This Morning
An immigration judge has granted bond for Edwin Leonel Reyes-Guillen, who was taken into custody last week at Duke Manor apartments while a U.S. Marshals Service task force was searching for a different man wanted for murder. Reyes-Guillen’s attorney, Beckie Moriello, says Judge Theresa-Holmes Simmons awarded a $10,000 bond after a hearing in Charlotte this […]
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Kenneth Bailey’s Family Did Their Own Report on His Shooting, And It Tells a Very Different Story Than the Durham Police’s Narrative
The family of Kenneth Bailey Jr., who was shot by Durham police last month in the Club Boulevard neighborhood, has completed their own review of what happened on February 15, and it paints a much different picture than the narrative put out by the Durham Police Department. Here’s the full statement as released by Jonathan […]
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Family, Friends Demand a Full Investigation into Durham Teen’s Jail Death, Call Her a “Young Lady Full of Life”
On Friday afternoon, outside the Durham County Detention Center, chants of “shut it down” and “no justice, no peace” echoed against the jail’s stark white exterior. Orange blurs pressed against the building’s barred windows and waved. Down below, the family and friends of Uniece Fennell, who just eight days ago was also behind those bars, […]
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Durham Man Detained By ICE Has Been Moved Out of State
Edwin Reyes-Guillen, an undocumented immigrant detained in Durham Tuesday while law enforcement was looking for a different man near his brother’s apartment, has been moved to a South Carolina jail. Reyes-Guillen, twenty-six, was being held at the Forsyth County Detention Facility until Wednesday, when he was moved to the York County Detention Center in York, […]
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Family of Durham Man Detained Tuesday by ICE Despite Not Having a Deportation Order Talk About His Controversial Arrest
Mario Ramon-Reyes’s little brother was snatched away before his eyes. Sitting in his living room Wednesday, he says he’d feel better if he’d been the one abruptly taken away by a U.S. Marshals task force and sent to the Forsyth County Detention Facility. Ramon-Reyes is the brother of Edwin Reyes-Guillen, who is now facing deportation […]
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ICE’s Explanation for Rounding Up Immigrant at Duke Manor Tuesday: He Was There
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has given the INDY an explanation for why an undocumented immigrant with no deportation order or outstanding criminal charges or warrants in Durham was detained at Duke Manor apartments Tuesday morning: he was there. ICE spokesman Bryan Cox confirmed Wednesday that Edwin Leonel Reyes-Guillen was taken into custody Tuesday by the […]
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Alerta Migratoria: Immigrant ‘Violently’ Detained at Durham Apartment
An immigrant advocacy group says law enforcement “violently” detained a man at Duke Manor apartments in Durham early Tuesday morning. Alerta Migratoria posted a video of officers wearing vests marked “Police” and “U.S. Marshal” detaining a man the group identified as Edwin Leonel Reyes. Here is a video of the encounter, according to the group: […]
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The Durham County Sheriff’s Office Asks the SBI to Take Over Inquiry into the Jail Death of Uniece Glenae Fennell
Sheriff Mike Andrews is asking the State Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry into a seventeen-year-old’s death at the Durham County Detention Facility. The Sheriff’s Office released a report Friday, listing Uniece Glenae Fennell’s cause of death as suicide and the means of death as “tied sheet around middle window bar.” Fennell was […]
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Durham Adds Bike Lanes, Aims to Make City More Bike-Friendly
Encouraging news for two-wheel enthusiasts: the city of Durham added 2.8 miles of bike lanes last year, according to a presentation the Durham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission made to the Durham City Council last week. Among those new lanes is a contraflow lane on Watts Street, which BPAC says may be the first of […]
