BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA)—Detectives with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged a former Department of Adult Correction Officer with a felony.
66-year-old James Allen Mathes, of McDowell County, faces a charge of felony sexual act by a government/private institution employee after an investigation launched last month.
The charge stems from an alleged relationship between Mathes and a detainee at the Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa…