Detective Billie Brown with the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office charged 45-year-old Robert Andrew Higgins with felonious Second Degree Kidnapping and felonious Assault with a Deadly Weapon Inflicting Serious Injury. Higgins was issued a $500,000 secured bond.
On the night of August 18th, deputies responded to the intersection of Breezy Hill Dr and Bat Cave Rd for a domestic occurring on the highway. Once on scene, they observed a vehicle down the embankment being held by trees with no passengers in it. The caller advised that he was on the phone with the driver when she was run off the road by Higgins. Deputies searched the area for Higgins’ vehicle but were unable to locate it. Higgins was arrested a short time later by officers from Asheville Police Department and the female victim, who had sustained multiple stab wounds, was located at Mission Hospital.
