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Sheriff’s deputies make arrests in four separate cases

By Lightning Reports, Published: October 30, 2026

The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office announced arrests in four separate cases this week:

• The Special Investigations Unit charged a 37-year-old man with indecent liberties with a child and assault by strangulation on Tuesday after initiating an investigation into the allegations on Sept. 22. Luis Alegrias Callejas, 37, was taken into custody without incident and is currently in custody of the Henderson County Detention Center.
• On Oct. 23, the Henderson County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force initiated an investigation involving the alleged possession and production of Child Sex Abuse Material. As a result of the investigation, Patrick Murphy, 75, was charged two counts of third-degree exploitation of a minor, two counts of first-degree exploitation of a minor. Murphy was arrested without incident and is currently in custody of the Henderson County Detention Center.
• The Special Investigations Unit on Oct. 22 charged Robert Dirilen Robonei, 31, with statutory rape of a child by an adult.
• After the Sheriff’s Office received multiple reports of AT&T utility wire being cut and taken from the Dana area, deputies who investigated identified and arrested three suspects from Spartanburg, S.C. Arrested were Justin Tayler Bunch, 27, of Spartanburg, charged with injury to utility wire (4 counts), possession of stolen property (4 counts), obtaining property by false pretense (6 counts), felony conspiracy (4 counts) and Candace Lynn Pierce, 28, charged with felony conspiracy. Timothy Robert Harrison, 25, is still at large. He is charged in warrants with injury to utility wire (3 counts), possession of stolen property (3 counts), felony conspiracy (3 counts), conspiracy to obtain (1 count).