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Warrants issued for auctioneer
Weaverville
BY Clint Parker
– Nearly two
months after the Tribune first reported on complaints from clients of Blake Terry Auction, and a month- long inves-
editor @
weavervilletribune.com
tigation by the Weaverville Police, the police are reporting this week that it has warrants for the arrest of Paul Blake Ter- ry. The warrants were issued on Monday, May 1. According to the press re-
lease, “Separate warrants have charged Terry with embezzle- ment of funds for incidents that occurred in January, and February 2017.
Paul Blake
Terry has been the subject of a Weaverville Police Department investigation since March.” The release also said that more warrants were expected. The Tribune asked several
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questions of the Weaverville Police in relation to the case including whether or not they have been in contact with Terry. If there are any other persons involved in the crimes? How much money is involved? and How many warrants for arrest there are? Their response was that they could not say more at this time. The Tribune tried to obtain
copies of the warrants on Terry from the Buncombe County Courthouse, but were told they were not available as of press time. A source close to the investi-
gation said that there are cur- rently two warrants for em-
These binders contain a month-long investigation by Weaverville Police on allegations that Paul Blake Terry of Blake Terry Auctions embezzled some of his clients’ money and have now resulted in at least two warrants for Terry’s arrest.
bezzlement of funds and that the police are in contact with Terry’s attorney, but not Terry himself. The source said that Terry’s attorney is Asheville Lawyer Thomas
Amburgey
whose website says their areas of practice are theft, assault, domestic violence, white-collar crime, weapons offense, alcohol offenses and probation viola- tions. The Tribune contacted Am-
burgey’s office for verification of his status as Terry’s attorney and any comment on the war- rants that have been issued for Terry. He or his office did not respond as of press time.
The source close to the in-
vestigation also said that there was a total of about $150,000 involved in all of the cases that the district attorney will be presenting before the grand jury. The Tribune was able to get
in touch with Weaverville Po- lice Chief Greg Stephens and he said he was hopeful that more indictments would be handed down as the grand jury heard the cases. According to an April 3rd
press release from the Weaver- ville Police Department here is a review of the case from the Weaverville Police:
The Weaverville Police De-
partment has received 20 com- plaints of fraud involving Paul Blake Terry and Paul Blake Terry auctions. The complaints began on March 3rd 2017 which we have been actively in- vestigating since that time. An investigation of this mag-
nitude involving a large num- ber of victims and a large sum of money is very labor inten- sive. The Weaverville Police Department has obtained and assessed
evidence, examined
hundreds of account docu- ments, interviewed witnesses, consulted with the Buncombe
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