WakeMed officer suspended after Wilson County domestic violence arrest

WakeMed suspended a campus police officer after Wilson County authorities arrested 39-year-old Jeremy Lee Bohne on Friday on a string of domestic-violence-related charges, a case that puts a trusted hospital security role under intense scrutiny. Bohne was being held at the Wilson County Detention Center on a domestic violence hold, and his first court appearance was planned for Monday.

Court records say the alleged incidents happened between May 27 and May 29 and involved a woman in Wilson County. Bohne is accused of second-degree kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault by pointing a gun, interfering with emergency communication, two counts of assault on a female and two counts of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Reporting on the warrant says Bohne allegedly pointed a long rifle at the woman, grabbed her by the arm and collar, used a boxcutter to cut off her shirt and bra, took her phone to stop her from calling 911 and pulled her back inside a home after she fell.

North Carolina law treats interfering with an emergency communication as a Class A1 misdemeanor. Second-degree kidnapping is a Class E felony when a person is released in a safe place and is not seriously injured or sexually assaulted. In this case, the charges raise questions about how the law will frame the allegations against an officer whose job was to protect patients, visitors and employees.

WakeMed said Bohne was suspended immediately after the arrest and that the health system is conducting an internal review while cooperating with outside investigators. The WakeMed Campus Police & Public Safety Department says it serves the WakeMed Health & Hospital system across the WakeMed Raleigh Campus, WakeMed Cary Hospital, WakeMed North Hospital, Apex, Brier Creek and WakeMed Garner Healthplex, and that it operates around the clock. The system says it has three hospitals and eight emergency departments.

The arrest comes as WakeMed continues to live with the memory of another campus police loss. Roger Smith, a WakeMed Campus Police officer, was killed in the line of duty at WakeMed Garner Healthplex on Nov. 8, 2025, after serving WakeMed for 14 years and Knightdale Police for 16 years. That recent death, paired with the new charges against Bohne, puts renewed attention on how WakeMed screens, supervises and disciplines armed officers entrusted with public safety inside a major Wake County health system.