'Career offender' from Maxton gets 24-year sentence for carjacking, sexual assault

David Earl Page, a Maxton man with a history of committing armed robberies, will spend the next 293 months in prison for carjacking then sexually assaulting a woman in Robeson County.

According to court testimony, Page approached a female employee of South of the Border while she was on a smoke break, forced her into her car at knifepoint, tied her hands and feet and then assaulted her, stabbed her and beat her along a rural road.

Page pleaded guilty on Jan. 3.  

In announcing Page's sentence, Michael Easley, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said, "Page has a history of committing armed robberies and is a career offender.