and (2) that Mr. Strausser, from whom he initially ran, was a private security guard and not a public officer. The State produced evidence, however, that defendant also tried to elude Officer George, a campus police officer, and that he hid in an old tobacco warehouse in an attempt to avoid capture by several campus police officers. Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74G et seq., the Campus Police Act, campus police officers have the same statutory authority granted to municipal and county police officers to make arrests for both felonies and misdemeanors and to charge for infractions within their jurisdictions. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74G-6(b) (2005). As such, they qualify as “public officers” pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-223. See State v. Taft, 256 N.C. 441, 444, 124 S.E.2d 169, 171 (1962) (<HOLDING>). The trial court did not err in denying
holding that an alcoholic beverage control officer was a public officer within the meaning of the statute holding that an officer or employee of the tennessee valley authority was not an officer or employee acting under the authority of the united states or any department or any officer of the government thereof within the meaning of a criminal statute first enacted in 1884 holding officer liable for deprivation of constitutional rights despite argument that officer although present was not in control of the situation holding that the written job description alone was insufficient to establish that an animal control officer is a law enforcement officer under the tca holding police officer is a public official