Anthony Kelly

Interim Chief of Police

Release: IMMEDIATE                     Contact: Sgt. S. Strepay, Public Information Officer

Date: May 26, 2017                          Phone: (910) 433-1374

Suspect Arrested for Rape

(Fayetteville, NC) – Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Special Victims Unit have charged and arrested a suspect in connection with a rape that occurred on February 16, 2017.

D’Andre Covington (B/M, 16 years of age), of the 700 block of  CL Tart Circle has been arrested and charged with 1^st Degree Forcible Rape, 1^st Degree Forcible Sex Offense, 1^st Degree Kidnapping, Indecent Liberties with a Child, Crimes against Nature, and Assault by Strangulation. The victim was an acquaintance of the suspect at the time of the offense.

Covington was apprehended today by FPD Officers with the Cross Creek District and taken to the Cumberland County Detention Center where he received a $600,000 secured bond.

There is no further information to release.