A man who has been banned from the University campus and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of harassment allegations has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for resisting arrest at Duke.
Jurors in Durham County Superior Court deliberated only a short time before convicting 65-year-old Samuel William Ferebee III. The case was on appeal from a lower court.
The charge arose from an April 19, 2002, incident in which Duke officers attempted to question Ferebee. Duke security officer Joshua Strausser testified that Ferebee fled the campus and disappeared into some woods when officers tried to stop him.
Other officers apprehended him a short time later.
“He had had some questionable confrontations with female students on campus,” Strausser said of Ferebee. “He generally made females uncomfortable. He would ask questions that were inappropriate. He started doing inappropriate things... like coming up against them, rubbing their shoulders.”
In addition, Ferebee occasionally asked young women for their telephone numbers and addresses, Strausser testified.
If the women said no, “he would become aggressive,” the officer added. “He would tell them he had ways to get that number.”
This is not the first time that Ferebee had been charged with resisting arrest. He was convicted in 1997 of resisting arrest in Craven County. He has also been previously charged with being a peeping tom, stalking, assault on a female, breaking-and-entering, attempted first-degree rape and assault with a deadly weapon.
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