ALEXANDER COUNTY, N.C. – A missing Alexander County couple was arrested in Virginia Monday, police said.
Alexander County Sheriff Chris Bowman said that 48-year-old Carl Lee Dotson and 32-year-old Brandi Michelle Risden, both of Taylorsville, were taken into police custody near a hotel in Wytheville, Virginia around 8:30 a.m.
Deputies in Alexander County were notified that the pair were in Wytheville and alerted local police. Wytheville Police found a Kawasaki motorcycle with North Carolina license plates that was believed to be driven by the couple.
Last week, the couple’s missing four-month-old was found safe with a family member in West Virginia. Dotson was discovered missing on March 26 when deputies in Alexander County attempted to serve a warrant on him at his home in Taylorsville. The warrant was for failure to appear on charges of assault inflicting serious injury and assault by strangulation.
Dotson and Risden were found in possession of a firearm and a controlled substance. They were taken into custody without incident, police said. Both suspects are awaiting extradition back to North Carolina.