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Warrants: Pair raided Richmond County hemp farm

ELLERBE — A father and son, both currently in separate jails on pending charges, are accused of stealing more than 6,000 industrial hemp plants within a week, two months ago.

According to warrants, 24-year-old Tryon Campbell Evans and his father, 44-year-old Victor Brian Evans, made off with 20 hemp plants that were being cultivated for market on Aug. 3.

They allegedly returned on Aug. 8, taking 1,500 plants, and again on Aug. 10, stealing 5,000 more — plus a trail camera.

The plants were estimated to have a retail value of $1.63 million, according to warrants.

Tryon Evans was served on Oct. 10, charged with three counts of larceny of ungathered crops and one count of misdemeanor larceny and given a $25,000 secured bond on those charges.

Richmond County Jail records show he has been held since Aug. 31. His other pending charges include: possession of methamphetamine; resisting a public officer; and five counts of failure to appear on a misdemeanor.

Tryon Evans is being held under a combined $75,500 secured bond on all charges.

Victor Evans, who has been in the Anson County Jail since Aug. 18, was served with warrants Oct. 12 with the same larceny related charges.

His pending charges in Anson County include: possession of methamphetamine; possession of up to a half-ounce of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; resisting a public officer; and giving a false or fictitious name on an application for a title renewal.

Jail records also list a charge of driving with a revoked license and an out-of county probation violation.

Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show Victor Evans was convicted in March of attempted breaking and entering and attempted larceny in Scotland County and given a 24-month suspended sentence.

His record dates back to 1993 when he was convicted of seven counts of misdemeanor larceny and one count of misdemeanor breaking and entering.

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He was convicted of felony larceny in 1994 and his probation was revoked on four of the misdemeanor larceny convictions and the breaking and entering conviction.

He served five consecutive sentences. While records do not show an actual release date, his scheduled release date was November of 1998.

In 2003, he was again convicted of felony larceny.

The following year, Victor Evans was convicted on three counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon — one in Richmond County, two in Scotland County — and he spent the next five years behind bars.

He was convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses in Richmond County in 2012 and his probation was revoked the following year in Buncombe County when convicted of embezzlement and possession of drug paraphernalia, resulting in a 19-month incarceration.

Records show that during that time, he committed financial card theft and fraud, also in Buncombe County.

He was convicted of those charges in 2015 and was back in prison the following year.

Following his release in May of 2017, he was sent back on a post-release revocation.

Tryon Evans has no previous convictions.

Victor Evans is scheduled to appear in court on the hemp charges Oct. 25, Tryon Evans on Oct. 31, online court records show.

Tryon Evans also has a pending misdemeanor charge of possession of stolen goods or property and several traffic infractions.

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

 



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