NORTH CAROLINA
Daily Times
By Alex Keown Daily Times Staff Writer
After a manhunt that spanned two states, Wilson County sheriff's detectives arrested a pastor of a Wilson church Wednesday night wanted on charges of 19 counts of statutory rape.
Sheriff's detectives along with members of the U.S. Marshal's Service's fugitive task force arrested Nathaniel Rasberry, of 9013 U.S. 301 S., Kenly, in connection with repeated sexual assaults on two women who are now 19 and 25 years old.
Reports of Rasberry's activities first came to the Sheriff's Office in August. After an investigation by Detective Denise Wilkins, which included an interview with Rasberry, warrants for his arrest were issued. When detectives went to serve the warrants, Rasberry was no where to be found, Farmer said.
Rasberry had been on the run since warrants were issued earlier this month, said Maj. J.H. Farmer of the Wilson County Sheriff's Office. Farmer said the investigation into Rasberry's activities indicates the assaults had been ongoing for several years, back to when the victims were minors.