Felony Assault Suspect Arrested Asheville

Asheville -- May 11, 2024: Asheville Police Press Release: Asheville Police Detectives have arrested the man wanted for Assault With A Deadly Weapon

on March 27th.

APD Detectives located Kaseem Carltrelle Simmons (05/04/1995) on May 9th around 4:20 p.m. leaving an apartment complex on Spruce Hill Court, and he was taken into custody. During the investigation, detectives located a trafficking amount of fentanyl, crack cocaine, and MDMA (Ecstasy). 

Simmons is a suspect in an assault that left a man unconscious in a parking lot at Aston Garden Apartments on March 27th.  

Arrested:

Kaseem Carltrelle Simmons 

-Assault with Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury

-Trafficking in Opium or Heroin by Possession

-Possession with Intent to Sell or Deliver Schedule I

-Possession with Intent to Sell or Deliver Schedule II

-Possession with Intent to Sell or Deliver Schedule VI

Seized:

-6.86g of fentanyl

-1.38g of crack cocaine

-14.52g of meth

-64 DU of MDMA

Simmons was booked into the Buncombe County Detention Facility under NO BOND (ineligible for release) by a magistrate due to the Pretrial Integrity Act.

If you have information about illegal drug activity, you are encouraged to contact APD at (828) 252-1110. You can also send an anonymous tip using the TIP2APD smartphone application (search “Asheville PD” in your app store) or by texting TIP2APD to 847411. 

Editor's Note:* A criminal charge is an accusation, by law, a person accused of a crime is innocent until proven in a court of law.