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SCOOP: Marion Man Faces Additional Charges For Secret Peeping

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Annie Dance
Oct 31, 2025
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Rickey Lyn Messer (McDowell County Sheriff’s Office)

MARION, N.C. — As I first reported today, 59-year-old Rickey Lyn Messer of Marion was arrested on three felony counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. New court records now show Messer was charged on Friday for six additional felony counts of secret peeping following an expanded investigation by the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office.

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