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Attempted house break-in with armed suspect in Winston-SalemWinston Salem NC

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Near Tall Tree Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27105

A house break-in was reported near Tall Tree Drive in Winston-Salem. The caller said someone was trying to break in at the front door and might be armed. Earlier, there was a harassment report involving the family of the caller's deceased fiancé and transfer of a firearm. Police arrived and found the suspect nearby with a weapon in the vehicle but not on the person. No further threats or violence were reported after police arrived.

Audio|Source: Forsyth County Sheriff Dispatch
03:17
Transcript:
00:00
Holding a house break-in in progress Code 1[2], near Tall Tree Drive.
00:04
Any unit to respond? Thank you all for someone today, I'm your route.
00:12
What's in, Ralph?
00:16
10-4[1]. It's going to be a house breaking in progress.
00:19
Code 1[2], near Tall Tree Drive.
00:23
We did take a call earlier for this address in reference to a harassment.
00:26
The PR is advising that someone is trying to break into their house at this time.
00:30
They are at the front door, and the PR believes that they are armed.
00:33
David, one of you want to direct on your traffic.
00:39
If you want to divert to that, I'm about to pull up on them.
00:42
I'll take care of whatever we need.
00:47
The PR is advising they gave a firearm to the fiance's parents earlier who just passed away and believes the uncle is back.
01:00
The original harassment call was in reference to a...
01:16
Responding, what it is is there was a female who lives there.
01:19
Her fiance just passed away and she's saying that the family was harassing her.
01:24
At that time there were no threats or anything made.
01:27
However, there's a male that's with her that was originally calling the file report on her behalf that may be escalating some of the situations.
01:35
She was coming down there telling her they were watching her in the house.
01:43
She's upstairs and her mom and her friend is there with her.
01:47
They did not say anything and then she heard the on the phone talking to someone.
01:55
I was in a vehicle description and can I tell if it's still there or not?
02:00
10-4[1], they advise it's a four-door crew cab pickup.
02:06
(name withheld) stated that he is there and has a weapon and that is in its vehicle but not on his person and they have not knocked on the door since being on the phone.
02:18
When we're trying to get a vehicle description.
02:22
I'm trying to get a vehicle description.
02:25
The body from from the pin area.
02:30
Sheriff's Office of All Units holding Channel 1, X2 for primary.
02:35
If I saw that truck still there or not, please.
02:42
Do 117-7, ready to check?
02:46
Go ahead.
02:47
It was a four-head.
02:53
It was a four-door crew cab pickup, no color.
03:02
I'm called for with this channel.
03:03
Whatever I have back to code here.
03:08
Sheriff's office hall units.
03:09
See can resume routine traffic on Channel 1 and 2, authority of David 185.
03:13
He is code 4.
03:14
Additional units cut your traffic back to code 2.
03:16
Again, code 2.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message was received and understood.
[2]
Code 1: Non-emergency response; proceed routinely without lights or sirens.

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Near Tall Tree Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27105

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