Another office seeker who didn’t appear in the newspaper’s previous roundup of court records prior to the March primaries is Shannon Long, the independent contender for the office of Alamance County’s sheriff.
When The Alamance News delved into the legal backgrounds of other candidates in the runup to this year’s primary, Long was still gathering the thousands of signatures he needed to stand as an unaffiliated contender for sheriff in the general election. It wasn’t until after the date of the primary that the local election’s office certified Long’s petition, and he duly assumed his place among the roster of candidates.
Now that the Mebane resident has been added to November’s ballot, The Alamance News has run the name Shannon Lemar Long through the state court system’s records as it had previously done with the rest of the candidates. The result was a fairly brief inventory of court cases that date back mainly to the early Aughts.
According to the state’s court system, Long received a speeding ticket on July 26, 2000 from a “legacy” law enforcement agency in Orange County. This citation for a speed of 57 in a 35-mile-an-hour zone was dismissed two days later by the office of Orange County’s D.A.
On January 13, 2001, Long received another ticket from the N.C. Highway Patrol for allegedly going 65 miles an hour along a road in Durham County with a 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. According to court records, Long pleaded “responsible” to a lesser speeding charge when his case went to court on April 10, 2001.
The next entry in the court system’s log books is a divorce action that Long himself filed on May 20, 2003 against his ex-wife Tamika Whitted. The case came to trial in Orange County district court and was disposed of on July 1 of the same year.
The final appearance of Long’s name in the court system’s database is as the secondary defendant in a collection action that Ford Motor Company filed against Tiffany N. Long on October 1, 2018. The case was resolved without trial on December 5, 2018.
