A Marion man has been sentenced to at least six years in prison after being charged regarding a missing woman’s body being found at a Rutherford County construction site last June.

46-year-old Norris Lewis Westall of Quail Ridge Drive pleaded guilty to intent to conceal unnatural death by destroying or disposing human remains.

Previous reports state 24-year-old Brooke Tollie of Marion was reported missing May 13^th.

After an extensive investigation by McDowell authorities, Tollie’s remains were uncovered at a construction site in the Golden Valley community of Bostic June 5^th.

Reports from McDowell detectives say Westall and Tollie were friends and that Tollie had been at the Westall residence when she died.

It was alleged that Westall took Tollie’s body to the construction site and buried her.

Reports further state at the time of Westall’s arrest in June, preliminary autopsy reports showed no traumatic injury to Tollie’s body.

The exact cause of death has not been determined; however, toxicology results remain pending.

An inmate at the Cleveland County detention center committed suicide over the weekend.

According to reports, while conducting routine inmate checks officials discovered 35-year-old Clint Daniel Fort hanging in his cell just before 12:30 Saturday afternoon.

Detention officials began CPR until EMS arrived and transported Fort to Atrium Health Cleveland; however, he was pronounced deceased about 45 minutes later.

Fort was from nearby Blacksburg and had been held at the Cleveland detention facility since September 17^th on charges of order for arrest for failure to appear for possession of heroin.

The SBI will be assisting Cleveland County officials in an investigation.

A tractor trailer hauling aluminum overturned while traveling down Old Fort mountain Friday morning.

Around 7:30, emergency personnel responded to the single vehicle crash near the 68 mile marker.

State Highway Patrol reports say 36-year-old Toddrick Stevenson of Statesboro Georgia was driving east on I-40 when the rig veered off the roadway and overturned.

The investigating trooper say excessive speed played a factor in the crash.

Stevenson was treated on scene by McDowell EMS but did not require transport.

Charges are currently pending.

Old Fort Fire and McDowell Rescue also assisted on the scene.

Two people were injured in a crash Sunday on the Blue Ridge Parkway also inside McDowell County.

The mishap involving a motorcycle reportedly occurred near Orchard Road in Spruce Pine around 2:15 yesterday afternoon.

Authorities say two people were thrown over an embankment, and one with serious injuries was airlifted to Mission Hospital Asheville.

The other person was taken to Mission also by ambulance.