Police sought her after racist hospital rant. They found her in a traffic stop one year later.
Updated Aug. 28, 2019: Criminal charges against Cheree Maria Bandy stemming from the 2016 and 2017 incidents have been dismissed.
A Raleigh police officer stopped Cheree Maria Bandy for driving with an expired registration sticker on her license plate on Thursday night. But by the time the traffic stop on West Millbrook Road ended, the officer discovered that Bandy was wanted for a half-dozen charges stemming from a disruptive visit to WakeMed’s emergency room last year and an altercation with her boyfriend in Johnston County two years ago.
In outstanding warrants issued on March 29, 2017 — exactly one year before Thursday’s traffic stop — WakeMed police accused Bandy, 36, of telling emergency room staffers at the hospital that “all whites should get skin cancer and die,” according to arrest warrants made public Friday at the Wake County Magistrate’s Office.
Bandy’s arrest Thursday came after a Raleigh officer pulled over the 2006 Toyota she was driving Thursday at 9:24 p.m. The officer charged her with driving while license revoked after seeing her car’s expired registration plate, according to a traffic citation filed at the magistrate’s office.
That led to the officer looking up her criminal history and learning there were outstanding warrants for her arrest from 2017 and 2016.
WakeMed police had charged Bandy with one misdemeanor count each for communicating threats, harassing phone calls and disorderly conduct by abusive language, according to the arrest warrants.
Investigators say Bandy threatened to punch an emergency room nurse in the head. She’s also accused of telephoning the emergency room “for the purpose of annoying, threatening and harassing” the staff. Police say Bandy “screamed in a loud voice racial remarks that were offensive to the emergency room staff, patients and visitors,” the arrest warrants state.
Police say Bandy “refused to settle down,” and continuously used derogatory and offensive phrases directed toward white people while asserting the racial superiority of black people and saying that white people should get skin cancer and die, according to the arrest warrants. Investigators said Bandy threatened to have the staff fired. They also said her behavior frightened elderly and juvenile patients who witnessed the scene.
Johnston County officials also were looking for Bandy on misdemeanor charges of cyberstalking, injury to personal property and simple assault, according a second arrest warrant filed with the magistrate. That incident happened on April 10, 2016, and the alleged victim was Bandy’s former boyfriend, according to the arrest warrant.
Investigators said she repeatedly sent him emails “for the purpose of abusing, annoying, harassing and embarrassing” him, according to the warrant. Police also think she caused about $200 damage to the ex-boyfriend’s Cadillac Escalade and then scratched his face and arms, according to the warrant.
Bandy remained in custody Friday. She was not given bail for the offenses related to her former boyfriend. The magistrate ordered her to be held for 48 hours before seeing a judge.
She was given a $3,000 bail for the offenses that were incurred during the traffic stop and at WakeMed, according to the citation and warrant.
Thomasi McDonald: 919-829-4533, @thomcdonald
This story was originally published March 30, 2018 at 6:17 PM with the headline "Police sought her after racist hospital rant. They found her in a traffic stop one year later.."