North Carolina
Video shows NC trooper take Madison Cawthorn’s driver’s license in Cleveland County
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Queen Metropolis Information has obtained North Carolina Freeway Patrol dashcam video displaying a visitors cease involving Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) after he was pulled over in Cleveland County in March and charged with driving with a revoked license.
Cawthorn, a Henderson County Republican representing North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district, was pulled over on March 3 – the third time the politician had been stopped since October 2021.
The primary visitors cease got here on October 18, 2021, on Interstate 40 in Buncombe County for driving 89 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone.
Cawthorn was pulled over once more on January 8, 2022, on US 74 in Polk County for driving 87 mph in a 70 mph zone.
The consultant was driving a white, 20098 Dodge in each stops.
On March 3, Cawthorn was pulled over once more. Authorities mentioned he was driving on US 74B round 10:30 p.m. in Cleveland County in a 2019 Toyota pickup that went left of middle.
Throughout the cease, investigators realized that Cawthorn’s license had been revoked.
Within the dashcam video, a North Carolina trooper informs approached the truck and instructed Cawthorn his tag was expired. He took his driver’s license again to the cruiser and ran it by the system.
That’s when the trooper found the license had been revoked as a result of an “out-of-state” ticket.
“Sadly, I’ve gotta take your license,” the trooper mentioned to the congressman on the driver’s-side window, explaining there was a “pickup order.”
“Is that so?” mentioned Cawthorn in reply.
The audio within the video is inaudible at occasions, however an unidentified lady within the passenger seat exits the car and carries Cawthorn’s wheelchair to his facet of the car.
Cawthorn will get into the chair and goes towards the passenger facet whereas telling the patrolman to “have night time.”
He was charged with a Class 3 misdemeanor cost of driving with a revoked license.
The Asheville Citizen-Occasions reported that Cawthorn was charged with driving with a revoked license in 2017 in Buncombe County. That cost was later dismissed.
After the incident in March, a consultant for Cawthorn instructed Queen Metropolis Information that the congressman expects “the visitors issues to be resolved rapidly and we stay centered on serving the constituents of NC-11.”
A court docket date for his incident in Cleveland County is Could 6.