ROCKINGHAM — A Hamlet woman is facing many charges for allegedly using stolen rings as collateral.
According to an arrest warrant obtained on October 28, 41-year-old Toni Marie Everette of Hamlet stole a 14-karat white gold wedding ring set on September 7. She then allegedly arranged with a guy to use the rings as security for a $140 loan from a Rockingham pawn shop.
Before that warrant was issued, Everette was apprehended with an unidentified amount of cocaine and fled from a Rockingham Police officer who was investigating a case of flight to avoid arrest, according to another warrant filed on Oct. 24.
According to a magistrate’s order issued November 11, Everette gave another RPD officer a bogus name and birthday while investigating a report of a suspicious car.
Everette was arrested and booked into the Richmond County Jail, where she is being held on a $50,000 secured bond for felony larceny, obtaining property under false pretenses, conspiracy to obtain property under false pretenses, possession of stolen property, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, and two counts of resisting a public officer.
According to court documents, Everette is set to be arraigned on all charges on December 5.
According to records with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Everette was sentenced to a suspended sentence in January 2023 after being convicted of larceny of firearms, felon possession of a handgun, and communicating threats.
Everette was initially convicted in 2004 for misdemeanor breaking and entering and accessory after the fact to a felony. Two years later, she was found guilty of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
In 2007, her probation for the 2004 convictions was canceled, and she spent six months in prison.
Everette was convicted of ID card fraud again in 2011, followed by felony breaking and entering and narcotics possession in 2014. Her probation for the latter crimes was revoked in Anson County the following year, and she was jailed for less than seven months.
(Note that state records indicate the drug conviction as possession of a Schedule I controlled substance for the first conviction and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance for the revocation.)
Everette was returned to prison in 2016 for a three-month re-incarceration violation.
All defendants who face criminal charges are deemed innocent until proven guilty in court.