NC Rep. Madison Cawthorn is charged with driving with revoked license
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Congressman Madison Cawthorn has been charged with driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor that carries up to 20 days in jail.
The 26-yr-aged Henderson County Republican was pulled above March 3 in Cleveland County — about an hour-and-a-fifty percent southeast of Asheville — by the Highway Patrol, according to court records and a Highway Patrol spokesperson.
Alongside with the misdemeanor, Cawthorn is dealing with two pending citations for dashing in various counties.
Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Marcus Bethea reported March 9 he could “confirm that the a few quotation figures” are pending matters in Buncombe, Polk and Cleveland counties.”
The Cleveland County quit occurred close to Shelby, according to Bethea and a court copy of the quotation.
Trooper Tyler Gantt observed a 2019 Toyota truck cross the centerline on U.S. 74B and pulled it more than at 10:26 p.m., Bethea stated.
“The driver was determined as David Madison Cawthorn, 26 years aged of Hendersonville, N.C.,” he mentioned.
“During the training course of the investigation it was identified that the driver’s license was in a state of revocation and he was subsequently charged with driving whilst license revoked.”
In the quotation Gantt pointed out the climate was apparent and traffic was gentle and that Cawthorn “was incredibly polite and cooperative.”
“Our place of work expects the targeted visitors issues to be resolved quickly and we stay targeted on serving the constituents of NC-11,” Cawthorn spokesperson Luke Ball claimed in a assertion to the Citizen Moments.
The very first of the targeted visitors stops for the speeding citations took place Oct. 18 on Interstate 40 in close proximity to Swannanoa in Buncombe County. A trooper stated Cawthorn was likely 89 mph in a 65-mph zone.
In Polk, a trooper stopped Cawthorn on Jan. 8 on U.S. 74 after declaring he clocked him at 87 mph in a 70-mph zone.
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In each cases he was driving a 2009 Dodge “passenger car,” Bethea explained.
Requested to verify that Cawthorn had his license all through the dashing stops — which preceded the prevent in which he was charged for driving with a revoked license — Bethea said the details he supplied March 9 was the extent of what he could give that day.
The courtroom date for the misdemeanor is May perhaps 6. The Polk County dashing citation is set to be read April 18 with the Buncombe citation on May 3.
Cawthorn has been charged prior to with driving soon after acquiring his license taken absent. In advance of he was a U.S. Dwelling member, a 2017 demand of driving while license revoked was dismissed in Buncombe, courtroom data demonstrate.
Driving with a revoked license is regarded as a Course 3 misdemeanor in North Carolina and carries a most sentence of 20 days in jail, though the punishment is typically a fantastic or probation.
Cawthorn utilizes a wheelchair after staying critically hurt in a 2014 auto accident in Florida. A mate who was driving fell asleep even though Cawthorn slept in the passenger seat, in accordance to his 2019 federal court filing against the insurance plan firm.
Joel Burgess has lived in WNC for additional than 20 many years, covering politics, federal government and other news. He’s prepared award-successful tales on subjects ranging from gerrymandering to law enforcement use of pressure. Received a suggestion? Speak to Burgess at [email protected], 828-713-1095 or on Twitter @AVLreporter. You should enable guidance this style of journalism with a membership to the Citizen Periods.
