Gastonia homeless man back in jail for begging
Gastonia—For the second time in 10 days, Gastonia Police arrested a homeless man accused of begging for money.Officer C.N. Brooks picked Charlton Mitchell Heavener up Thursday on the I-85 South ramp near U.S. 321. There, the 31-year-old Heavener was reportedly holding up a sign reading “need money.”It’s a violation of a Gastonia city ordinance forbidding people from being able to “ask, beg, solicit or offer to work for money or any other thing having value by accosting […]
