一名竞选联邦众议员的民主党候选人表示，她面临刑事指控，并在本月参加自己的竞选活动时收到警方传票。
A Democratic candidate running for the House of Representatives said she is facing criminal charges and that she was hit with a police summons while at her own campaign event this month.
莱克莎·沃马克正在竞选代表北卡罗来纳州第14国会选区，该选区目前由共和党籍众议员蒂姆·摩尔担任。沃马克在一段Facebook视频中表示，10月11日她抵达北卡罗来纳州波尔克县的一个竞选活动现场时，遭到警方拦截，涉及2019年未支付租车费用的重罪指控。沃马克称，尽管记录显示该案件于2020年1月立案，但她直到几天前才首次得知这一重罪案件的存在。
Lakesha Womack, who is running to represent North Carolina's 14th Congressional District, currently held by Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., said in a Facebook video that she was confronted by police about felony charges related to failure to pay for a rental car in 2019 when she arrived to a campaign event in Polk County, N.C., on Oct. 11. Womack claimed she was first made aware of the felony case just days before, despite records showing it had been opened in January 2020.
摩尔的竞选团队表示，该事件“引发严重疑问”，并称“她有责任向选民做出解释，尤其是她的开庭日期在大选后一周”。“当她连自己的私人事务都处理不好时，怎么能成为我们社区的代言人？作为一名执业超过30年的律师，我认为每个人都应受到同一正义标准的约束，此事也不例外。免费法律建议：租赁协议结束，你留用车辆的权利也就随之终止。”摩尔的竞选团队对福克斯新闻数字频道说道。
Moore's campaign said the incident "raises serious questions" and that "she owes voters an explanation, especially since her court date is one week after the election." "How is she going to be an advocate for our community when she can't manage her own personal affairs? As an attorney for over 30 years, I think everyone should be held to the same standard of justice, and this situation is no different. Free legal advice: When the rental agreement ends, so does your right to keep the car," Moore's campaign told Fox News Digital.
梅克伦堡县治安官办公室向福克斯新闻数字频道证实，10月11日，波尔克县治安官办公室的一名副治安官向她送达了“重罪未归还租用机动车”的刑事传票。该办公室未证实送达地点是在竞选活动现场。
The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Fox News Digital that she was served a criminal summons for Felony Fail to Return Hired Motor Vehicle on Oct. 11 by a deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. It did not confirm that it took place at a campaign event.
沃马克回忆称，在竞选活动前几天，她在与北卡罗来纳州加斯托尼亚市全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）分会的交谈中得知了自己的刑事指控。她表示，2019年她因一次医疗突发被送入重症监护室（ICU），当时她无家可归、身无分文，其儿子因无人能立即照看而被安置入寄养家庭。
Womack recalled being told about her criminal charges days before the campaign event during a conversation with the Gastonia, N.C.'s NAACP branch. In 2019, she said she was homeless with little money when she had a medical incident that sent her to the intensive care unit (ICU), during which time her son was placed into foster care with no one immediately able to look after him.
在取回儿子后，沃马克说：“我住在旅馆里，你知道的，拼凑着，你知道的，凑美元去美元树店买食物，给他买晚餐，每天晚上。我还租了一辆车。付不起租车费，他们就来把车开走了。所以我从来不知道，你知道的，他们已经提起诉讼，我想那是一项未决重罪指控。”
After retrieving her son, Womack said, "I'm living in a hotel and, you know, scraping together, you know dollars to buy food from Dollar Tree, to like, buy dinner for him every night. And I had a rental car. Couldn't afford the rental car, and they came and got it. And so I never knew that, you know, they have filed, you know, I guess that it was a pending felony." "I didn't post that I was gonna be in Polk County, but they knew exactly what car I was driving. And as soon as I parked, they pulled up behind me and served my papers with my address from 2019. So, y'all hadn't looked for me in the past seven years, but now all of a sudden, you know exactly what car I drive and where I'm going to be," Womack said.
“我没有发帖说我会去波尔克县，但他们确切地知道我开的是什么车。我一停车，他们就开到我后面，送达了写着我2019年地址的传票。所以，你们过去七年都没找过我，但现在突然之间，你们确切地知道我开什么车、要去哪里，”沃马克说。
She did admit in an Oct. 9 video addressing the charges that she did owe fees, "But I just want you all to know that, you know, I do owe them people some money." She said in the same video that she thought she previously "had resolved the issue, but it’s not resolved." Womack said in that video that she could not receive the January 2020 criminal summons at the time because she was homeless and therefore did not have a stable address.
她在10月9日针对指控发布的一段视频中承认确实欠费，“但我只想让你们都知道，你知道的，我确实欠那些人一些钱。”她在同一视频中说，她以为之前“已经解决了这个问题，但并没有解决。”沃马克在视频中说，她当时无法收到2020年1月的刑事传票，因为她无家可归，因此没有稳定地址。
That video appears to have since been deleted from her campaign Facebook page. Womack said in later videos that she could not discuss an active case.
该视频似乎已从她的竞选Facebook页面上删除。沃马克在后来的视频中说，她无法讨论正在进行的案件。
If found guilty, she could face between four and 24 months behind bars or community service for that duration.
如果罪名成立，她可能面临四到二十四个月监禁，或同等时长的社区服务。
North Carolina's 14th Congressional District is located in the western part of the state and spans from the suburbs of Charlotte to more rural areas in the North Carolina foothills.
北卡罗来纳州第十四国会选区位于该州西部，范围从夏洛特郊区延伸至北卡罗来纳山麓的较偏远地区。福克斯新闻数字频道已联系沃马克竞选团队置评。
Fox News Digital reached out to Womack's campaign for comment.