ROCKINGHAM — A man wanted by his bondsman for allegedly skipping bail is back in the Richmond County Jail.
Online jail records show 38-year-old Benny Lee Hinson Jr. was booked at 1:14 a.m. Tuesday on a charge of failure to appear on a felony and is being held under a $7,000 secured bond.
Bondsman Lloyd Rainwater put up wanted posters around Richmond County last week with Hinson’s photo, offering a reward for information leading to his arrest.
Rainwater said he had been served with a notice by the court after Hinson failed to appear in October and had 150 days to turn him in or lose the $7,000 he initially put up to bail him out on a felony charge of obtaining property by false pretenses.
The bondsman said he came close to apprehending Hinson the week prior to posting the wanted signs, but Hinson slipped away after running into First United Methodist Church.
Online court records show Hinson is also facing several traffic violations from the N.C. State Highway Patrol: not having an operator’s license; driving a vehicle with no insurance; delivering or accepting a blank or open title; having no inspection or an expired inspection; having a fictitious or altered title, registration card or tag; having a canceled, revoked or suspended certificate or tag; failing to surrender a title, registration card or tag; and giving, lending or borrowing a license plate.
His court date on those charges is April 7. Jail records show an April 6 court date in Richmond County Superior Court for the failure to appear charge.
Jail records show there are eight defendants being held for failure to appear on a felony and 19 for failure to appear on a misdemeanor.
Of those, two people — Sally Denise Patterson and Michael Allen Langley —are being held on both, as well as other charges.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
