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NRaleighLiberal

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Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:22 AM Feb 2019

Man charged with assault using porcelain watermelon (no, not Florida...NC!) [View all]

https://www.wral.com/man-charged-with-assault-using-porcelain-watermelon/18204736/


By Deborah Strange, WRAL digital journalist

ZEBULON, N.C. — A man was charged with assault after police say he hit a man with a porcelain watermelon topped with a chicken in December.

Brooks Michael Driver, 45, who is homeless and lives in Zebulon, hit the victim Dec. 20 with the object, according to an arrest report.

The assault cut the victim on the face and caused heavy bruising.

Driver was arrested Tuesday and held on $5,000 bond.
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