Cary cop wasn’t sure about charge against Frazier

HENRY FRAZIER III
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

DURHAM, North Carolina — The Cary Police Department officer who initiated the arrest warrant that ultimately triggered the firing of Henry Frazier III from his head coaching duties at N.C. Central University said he was iffy about the charge he was leveling.

Wake County Judge Jennifer Knox on Monday found Frazier not guilty of violating the domestic violence protective order in place to govern the relationship between him and his ex-wife, Lanier Turner-Frazier.

In August, Turner-Frazier contacted the Cary Police Department after reading handwritten notes from Frazier asking her to reimburse him for a $205 parking ticket.

Either Turner-Frazier or her daughter generated the ticket in Washington, D.C., while driving a vehicle registered to Frazier, according to his attorney, Ralph Frasier Jr.

Turner-Frazier testified that she received the notes on Aug. 11 and the next day spoke with Cary police officer B.T. Ready, who said he consulted with a Cary police detective to figure out exactly what crime Frazier might have committed.

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Judge dismisses criminal charge against fired NCCU football coach

RALEIGH — A judge in a Wake County court dismissed a charge against former N.C. Central head football coach Henry Frazier III on Monday that led to him getting fired.

Frazier was charged in August with violating a domestic violence protective order his wife had taken out against him. Frazier said he was trying to get word to her that he was paying for a ticket on their car and that the incident was a misunderstanding.

“I am very happy,” Frazier’s mother, Bessie Harris, said of the ruling. “I haven’t spoken with him directly. He left a message on my answer machine, but I’m happy about that and I knew he wasn’t guilty anyway. But I can’t wait to hear it directly from my baby.”

Attorney Ralph Frasier represented Frazier in court.
 “He intends now to concentrate on restoring his good name, raising his minor children and appealing to the Board of NCCU to set right the wrong that has been foisted upon him by them,” Frasier said in a press release.

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