Ryley OberAsheville Citizen Times
ASHEVILLE – Sheriff Quentin Miller recently presented updated crime stats for 2023 at a Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting and announced that the county’s community co-responder program will be utilized on a more permanent basis.
Along with providing State Bureau of Investigation data showing that large parts of Buncombe County saw a 15% drop in crime from 2021-2022, Miller presented the number of larceny and thefts, assaults, breaking and entering, and drug crimes that have occurred through Oct. 15 this year.
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So far this year, there have been 576 cases of larceny and theft as compared to 836 for all last year in unincorporated Buncombe County, which is patrolled by the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.