Witnesses made at least two attempts to get an Enfield woman off the tracks before she was hit and killed by a southbound Amtrak train engine Saturday morning, police tell The Spin.

Enfield Police Detective Randy White said Sherry Huntonn, 40, was standing up when the passenger train struck her.

Huntonn was allegedly drinking with other people when the people she was with heard the train coming and warned her to get up.

Friends assisted her but Huntonn sat back down on the tracks as the train continued to approach. As she got up to get out of the way she was struck and killed instantly, White said today.

Alcohol was found at the scene and an autopsy was being performed to determine her blood alcohol content, White said.

Huntonn, who is originally from New Hampshire, moved from place to place in Enfield, White said.

Family was expected to come to Enfield to claim the body.

The Spin first reported Saturday the collision occurred around 1 a.m. when the woman was sitting on the southbound tracks.

The engine pulling the Amtrak cars to Rocky Mount was probably going between 50 to 65 mph when the woman was struck, White told The Spin Saturday.

The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office reports a drug bust Friday morning in the Lincoln Heights community.

Lt. George Evans said in press release around 2:24 a.m. Deputy. W.C. Murphy spotted a vehicle traveling over the posted speed limit on Branch Avenue in Roanoke Rapids. 

He stopped it at Key Street. Antoine Boyd exited the vehicle and ran on foot. Murphy saw Boyd drop a dollar bill on the ground. 

After a short foot chase Murphy took him in custody. Inside the dollar was a small amount of powder cocaine.

Boyd was charged with resisting a public officer and possession of cocaine. He received a $1,000 bond and has a Sept. 14 court date.

The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following:

• On Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the downtown Food Lion, a 50-year-old woman was accosted in the parking lot and robbed, Chief Jeff Hinton said.

A man armed with a knife and a second person with him took the victim’s purse and fled on foot.

While searching the area, a witness told police the two fled to 134 Hamilton St. Police arrested Phillip Bernard Brown, 35, of 134 Hamilton St., for robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a deadly weapon and possession of stolen property. He was jailed on $25,000 bond and has a Sept. 30 court date.

Also arrested was Ian Barkley Coles, 17, of 134 Hamilton St. He was charged with aid and abet robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of stolen property. He was jailed on $10,000 bond.

• Also on Saturday police received a 3 a.m. call to the 500 block of Hamilton Street. Someone went in while the people were sleeping and left a pair of sneakers and cap in the inside. Nothing was taken. The case remains under investigation.

A second person has been charged in a November, 2007, larceny on Piney Grove Church Road in Littleton, according to the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.

A riding lawnmower and a four-wheeler were stolen from the property.

Detective Tyree Davis said in a press release the first arrest in the case was made in July when Solomon “Wilson” Thomas Johnston was charged.

Today, James “Lou” Edward Hall Jr., 22, of Roanoke Rapids, was charged.

Davis charged Hall with one count of felony larceny of a motor vehicle and one count of misdemeanor larceny. He was given a $5,000 bond and his court date is set for Sept. 23. The riding lawnmower was recovered.

A Scotland Neck area woman was charged this morning in a domestic assault.

Detective Rich Somogyi of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release Deputy Buford White responded to an assault in the Scotland Neck area of Halifax County. 

When Deputy White arrived he found the residents fighting in the house.  The victim was bleeding from the head and the arm. 

Wilma Crandall was holding an axe handle.  Halifax County EMS transported the victim to Our Community Hospital in Scotland Neck where he was treated for his wounds. 

Deputy White took Crandall into custody and she was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury.  Crandall was placed into the Halifax County Jail under no bond with a court date of Sept. 9.