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Local man charged with stealing construction equipment

By Bill Moss, Published: December 20, 2017

A 38-year-old Hendersonville man faces 10 misdemeanor and felony charges after Henderson County Sheriff's deputies visiting his house to serve previously issued arrest warrants discovered stolen construction equipment, the sheriff's office said.

Deputies went to a residence on View Rock Lane off Asheville Highway on Dec. 15 to serve felony warrants on Martin Franklin Worley. As they pulled into the driveway deputies observed Worley running from a car into the house. After surrounding the house, deputies found Worley hiding on the back deck and placed him under arrest. While searching for Worley, detectives spotted construction equipment previously stolen in early December from a construction site nearby.

After being arrested for misdemeanor probation violation, felony obtaining property by false pretenses and misdemeanor possession of stolen property, Worley was additionally charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny after breaking and entering, felony possession of stolen property from a construction site, misdemeanor injury to personal property, felony possession of methamphetamine, and two counts misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. He remained jailed on Wednesday on a $62,000 bond.