ROCKINGHAM — A man is facing charges from two law enforcement agencies for allegedly assaulting two women.
Michael Kevin Allen, 46, is accused of assaulting a woman on Jan. 21, hitting her in the face and body and stabbing her in the back of the left leg.
According to a magistrate’s order, Allen is a former cohabitant with the victim, although he is listed as being homeless.
Court records show the Hamlet Police Department had an outstanding warrant for Allen’s arrest, stemming from an incident on Nov. 7, 2024, when he allegedly broke into a home on Main Street, hit a female victim in the face and stole her cellphone.
That warrant shows Allen with an address on Entwistle Street in Hamlet.
Allen was arrested Jan. 22 and booked into the Richmond County Jail on charges of: assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office; and breaking and entering to terrorize or injure, larceny after breaking and entering, and assault on a female from the Hamlet Police Department.
He is being held on a combined $100,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 3.
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction show Allen has a history of assault and larceny.
He was first convicted in 1998 of breaking and entering and both misdemeanor and felony counts of larceny, then of injury to personal property and communicating threats the following year.
In 2000, Allen was convicted on two counts of misdemeanor breaking and entering, and one misdemeanor count each of larceny, injury to personal property, assault on a female and resisting a public officer.
Allen was subsequently convicted in 2001 of assault on a female and assault inflicting serious injury, then in 2003 of assault inflicting serious injury and larceny from the person.
Other previous convictions include:
2005 - driving while impaired
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
