State v. Hargett

TYSON, Judge.

I. Background

On 10 June 2000, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer David Collins (“Collins”) received a report around 10:20 p.m. of someone breaking into work vans parked inside a fenced lot off of Parkton Road.

Collins arrived at the location and observed several work vans, all belonging to Queen City Electric. Collins noticed an individual lying beside a van inside the fenced lot. After Collins instructed that person to stop, the person fled. Collins pursued the suspect into the woods past a graveyard.

Collins noticed Rudolph Marcel Hargett (“defendant”) lying down in weeds in…