CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The police chief of a small town in Catawba County has filed a motion to dismiss the charges accusing him of tampering with evidence in a decades-old cold case.

On May 5, Police Chief Willie Armstrong was indicted by a grand jury on one count of felony altering, destroying, or stealing criminal evidence and one count of misdemeanor willful failure to discharge duties. He's accused of destroying or changing an audio recording from a 1992 cold case in Brookford, the murder of 13-year-old Isis Denise "Dee Dee" Dawkins.

The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office says a Brookford police officer came to them last November and reported allegations of criminal activity by Chief Armstrong.

On September 18, Armstrong filed a motion to dismiss the charges on the g

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