Case against Davidson County commissioner dismissed

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published February 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM EST

A simple assault charge against a Davidson County commissioner has been dismissed, according to an official with the county clerk of courts.

Commission Chairman Todd Yates was accused of pointing a gun at one of his tenants. The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office did not witness the alleged crime and since there was no evidence that Yates pointed a gun, they did not charge him.

The tenant filed the charges with a magistrate, and the case was dismissed on January 29.

The State Bureau of Investigation found that there was a property dispute between Yates and the tenant, but no corroborating evidence of the accusation.

Yates, a Republican, was reelected to a fourth term last year.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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