Illegal alien car thief impregnated 13-year-old? | Wake courthouse shooter: schizophrenic, or legitimately aggrieved? | Iraqi arranged marriage ends in Jordan Lake body dump
No. 177 — May 17-May 23, 2026
I hope all of you had a solemn Memorial Day with the remembrance of the Americans who have lost their lives in service to their nation, especially those who were a fellow citizens here in North Carolina.
A woman accused of shooting two lawyers at the Wake County Courthouse is attracting some supporters, who feel that her schizophrenic-esque claims of a government conspiracy are worthy of “standing in solidarity” with.
A previously unreported story has come to light, in which court documents appear to indicate that a Hispanic illegal alien car thief residing in Durham impregnated a 13-year-old girl in Chatham County.
A Wake County judge (D) has been censured by the state supreme court for violating judicial ethics in regards to continuing to practice law after taking the office he won from a Republican incumbent in the November 2024 election.
A recent graduate of the Wake County Public School System committed suicide after her father got her drunk and raped her in California; he is expected to only be sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty last week.
A man who wasn’t happy with the marriage his mother arranged for him with an immigrant from Iraq has been sentenced to over three decades in prison after shooting his wife and dumping her body in Jordan Lake in 2023.
Wake courthouse shooter: schizophrenic, or legitimately aggrieved?
How a fight for police videos led to 2 attorneys being shot outside Wake courthouse - N&O
Woman accused of shooting attorneys at Raleigh courthouse has history of lawsuits - N&O
Woman accused of shooting Wake County attorneys will remain in jail without bond - WRAL
Ex-lawyer for accused Wake courthouse shooter says internet has distorted the facts - N&O
Former attorney of Gwendolyn White speaks out, calls for more mental health resources - WRAL
Suspect in shooting of Wake County attorneys had years-long legal battle with Rolesville police, documents show - CBS17
A prolific litigant accused of non-fatally shooting two lawyers outside the Wake County Courthouse has become someone of a “cause célèbre” for those who distrust law enforcement, the legal system, or government in general. However, is she actually an overzealous freedom fighter, or merely violent and out of touch with reality?
Gwendolyn White, 57, of Raleigh, is accused of retrieving a gun from her car after a hearing in a lawsuit she had brought against the Rolesville Police Department, and shooting two attorneys hired to represent the department as they exited the courthouse after a hearing in the case at which White had been removed from the courtroom for being “belligerent.”
Although this specific hearing was in a years-long case involving a request for bodycam footage from when RPD responded to a “verbal altercation” between White and her neighbors, White appeared to tie the case to a conspiracy involving an alleged acid attack which she claims resulted in the death of her elderly mother at the Duke Raleigh Hospital.
In a fundraiser started by White to get “justice” for her mother’s death, she claimed that her mother was denied medication for an infection, and that her mother’s body showed evidence of severe “acid burns,” which had allegedly been “poured in her open wounds.”
Although one may tend to lend a bit of gravity to allegations of such a serious nature made in the context of court, the facts paint quite a different picture in my mind. White filed a number of apparently frivolous or baseless suits over the years, to the point that a judge entered an order that she could no longer file complaints in Wake County court without either an attorney representing her, or a $500 bond.
I’ve heard directly from at least two citizens who had encountered White in a business capacity, one describing her as “mentally unwell” but not obviously dangerous, and another as a “complete basket case” who believe that cameras were being hidden in her house and she was being poisoned as her neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan were plotting against her. (One of her Facebook profiles which has yet to be taken down also contains posts along these lines.)
The concern over her mental capacity and/or behavior had also been documented in the court record of her numerous legal suits, showing that White had been found incapable to proceed in a stalking case against her, that she had been trespassed from the hospital where her mother was a patient, that her mother had been assigned a state-appointed guardian due to White’s inability to serve in this role, and that multiple nursing homes had refused to admit her mother due to White’s behavior.
Regardless of these facts, the notoriety of White’s alleged act of extreme violence has attracted supporters, many along racial lines (White is a black woman). Here’s what the creator of a “Friends of Gwendolyn E. White” Facebook page wrote about the decision to “stand[] in solidarity” with the alleged shooter, which has attracted hundreds of members:
I’ve been in Ms. White’s shoes. When Black people choose to take on the system, they are all too often disrespected and dismissed. This is what happened in this case. We want Ms. White to know that a group of citizens believe she and her mother were wronged. We want her to get a fair trial. We want her to believe that justice is possible for her.
I started this group because I believe every person deserves fairness, due process, and the right to have their full story heard. While I do not condone violence or the shooting that took place, I also understand how systems can fail, frustrate, and break people — especially Black people and families who often feel unheard and silenced.
This group is about standing in solidarity with Gwendolyn E. White and her loved ones as they navigate this difficult season. It is about ensuring that justice is pursued fairly, truthfully, and with humanity. Too many people are judged before they are fully heard. We choose to be voices for those who feel voiceless.
May justice be served in her case.
— Kashi Levette Bazemore (Friends of Gwendolyn E. White) Monday, May 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
White is facing two counts of attempted first degree murder, and is being held without bond.
Unreported court documents: illegal alien car thief impregnated 13-year-old?
Yet another instance of an (illegal) alien charged with sexually abusing a child in Chatham County would have flown under the radar except for the watchful eye of the @ImmigrantCrimes account on Twitter/X.
According to court documents, Bryan Lizandra Martinez-Sauceda, an 18-year-old resident of Durham, is accused of the statutory rape and kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl who was left pregnant when he was arrested in December 2025.
The search warrants for Martinez-Sauceda’s cell phone and DNA describe the victim being reported missing by her father from their home in northeast Chatham County in February 2025, reportedly in the company of a “Bryan” who was “around 17 or 18 years of age.” (Martinez-Sauceda was seventeen at the time, or five and a half years older than the victim).
The victim returned home five days later, but “was not forth coming with information.”
The victim’s father was notified by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office that a video of Martinez-Sauceda sneaking into his daughter’s bedroom had been recovered on a cell phone left in a stolen vehicle which had been found crashed the month prior.
Two weeks later, the victim notified law enforcement that Martinez-Sauceda was once again on the way to her residence, and he was arrested on outstanding warrants regarding dozens of counts of charges such as breaking or entering motor vehicles, larceny, and burglary¹, ², ³, ⁴.
At the time, the court was informed that Martinez-Sauceda had an ICE detainer in place.
Further interviews with the victim revealed that she had met Martinez-Sauceda “through social media” in January 2025, and they had engaged in sexual activity at various points in the ensuing months, including when he took her away from her home in February, as well as “just before the vehicle crash” in November. The victim also told investigators that she was pregnant, and that she believed Martinez-Sauceda to be the father.
Martinez-Sauceda has subsequently been charged in Chatham County with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of statutory rape of a child under sixteen, and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor¹, ². (The fact that the theft charges were dropped does not appear to have affected the charges he was linked to by the phone in the stolen vehicle, or the fact that )
However, the 33 theft-related charges against Martinez-Sauceda in Orange County were dropped in February, with the DA’s office citing “insufficient evidence” that Martinez-Sauceda committed the crimes. However, he still faces kidnapping/rape charges he was linked to by the phone allegedly in the stolen vehicle; the stolen vehicle is also cited in the charging text for contributing to the delinquency of a minor as well as at least one of the kidnapping charges.
Martinez-Sauceda also faces one count of simple assault from March 2026, as well as a Wake County DWI case from July 2025 in which he was also cited for driving without a license, a charge somewhat commonly found in previously reported on cases which involve illegal aliens.
Wake judge censured for continuing to practice law after election
Top NC court tackles Currituck taxes, cannabis odor, Duke rates, more - Carolina Journal
In re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, No. 25-148 - NC Supreme Court Opinion
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has unanimously agreed to censure Wake County Superior Court Judge Sean A. Cole for continuing to practice law in his jurisdiction after being sworn into office in January 2025. (Cole, a Democrat, had beat out the incumbent Republican judge Rebecca Waters Holt in a three-way race by a margin of 48.3-43.8%.)
The court found that Cole had violated multiple judicial canons, which explicitly forbid judges from practicing law and require judges to uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary, as well as act in a manner to promote public confidence in this integrity and independence.
According to the findings of the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, Cole took his oath of office while still having twelve outstanding despite “advice to the contrary” which he had received and continued to receive from parties such as the commission’s executive director and the county’s senior resident superior court judge.
As the court summarized the evidence, Cole “appeared as attorney of record in his own jurisdiction, and filed numerous summonses, motions to withdraw, and voluntary dismissals in multiple cases.”
Cole was also found to have made a court assistant “f[eel] pressured” to get a judge to sign a “deficient” motion to withdraw, which the per curiam opinion found “troubling,” as it “could be interpreted or perceived as a misuse of one’s position to pressure court personnel or staff.”
Justice Phil Berger Jr. wrote a concurring opinion in which he agreed with the decision to rebuke Cole, but disagreed with the court’s interpretation of its statutory and constitutional authority to “exercise[] independent judgment” in disciplinary cases rather than merely “issue a public reprimand, censure, suspend, or remove” a judge based “upon recommendation” of the commission.
WCPSS student committed suicide after moving to California and being raped by father
Disgusting SoCal dad pleads guilty to incest after daughter killed herself — sentenced to only 3 years in California prison - NY Post
Family of teen who killed herself after sicko dad allegedly raped her demands justice - NY Post
Calif. Father Pleads Guilty to Incest Months After Teen Daughter Dies by Suicide - People
Ventura County dad faces 3 years after pleading guilty to incest involving daughter - FOX 11
Stephen Vincent Chavez, 41, has plead guilty to one felony count of incest and one misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor in relation to the sexual abuse of his 18-year-old daughter, a graduate of the Wake County Public School System, whom he plied with alcohol and raped just days after she moved out to California to live with him.
Unfortunately, the young woman took her own life after moving back to Raleigh in the wake of the assault; according to her cousin, who had been organizing advocacy for the Ventura County District Attorney not to drop the case, the victim “left notes talking about how she couldn’t stop thinking about what he did to her.”
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Despite the tragedy of the situation, Chavez is only expected to receive three years in prison and twenty years on the sex offender registry when he is sentenced next month.
Iraqi arranged marriage: husband murdered bride, dumped body in Jordan Lake
Husband gets prison for killing wife in Chatham Co. to escape arranged marriage - N&O
Man took wife for a late-night meal at Denny’s after her Walmart shift, then shot her in the back and threw her off a bridge - Law & Crime
Husband of Apex woman found dead at Jordan Lake charged with murder - WRAL
Omar Matthew Ibrahim Drabick, 37, a resident of Apex, was sentenced to 32-40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering the wife he imported from Iraq and dumping her body in Jordan Lake in 2023.
The investigation by the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office revealed that Turkish native Hadeel Ghadhanfer Hikmat, 34, had married Drabick in 2022 after moving from Baghdad, Iraq as part of a marriage arranged by Drabick’s mother. (Drabick appears to be a 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant with Iraqi heritage who grew up in the Raleigh area.)
However, according to a search warrant, at least one source relayed investigators that they had been told by Drabick that the marriage was “rocky” and had never been consummated, and that Drabick was jealous of Hikmat meeting with another Iraqi man.
Hikmat’s body was found by a boater in Jordan Lake on August 29, 2023, with deputies subsequently finding a large bloodstain and two 9mm shell casings on the Farrington Rd. bridge which crosses the lake.
Investigators were able to place Drabick’s vehicle in the area around the time of the murder, identify Hikmat’s blood on his shoes and in his vehicle, find records of a matching firearm and ammunition purchased by Drabick in 2022, and recover searches on his cell phone regarding getting away with murder.
Drabick was allowed to plead down to second degree murder from the initial charge of first degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of death or life in prison, and was sentenced to 300-372 months, with credit for the nearly three years he has already spent in jail. Drabick also received a consecutive sentence of 80-108 months for concealing his wife’s body.
