Ryley OberAsheville Citizen Times
ASHEVILLE - A former Transylvania County Sheriff’s deputy was found guilty of assault in Buncombe County Superior Court July 21, more than two years after his K-9 latched onto the neck of a suspect during an arrest.
After being in a deadlock for most of the day, the jury found Joshua Kory Jones,31, guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, a Class A misdemeanor. Jones was originally on trial for a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, after the SBI investigated allegations of excessive force in 2021, agency spokesperson Angie Grube told the Citizen Times July 21.