Two of the handguns stolen during a Whiteville break-in last year were recovered last week, according to Whiteville Police. Lt. Andre Jackson said one handgun was found when WPD and Alcohol Law Enforc...
A man and woman were arrested on multiple fraud charges last week, according to the sheriff’s office. Ryan Anthony Rabon and Christy Cribb Hilbourn were arrested after they allegedly...
A Gillard Road woman was jailed Wednesday on multiple narcotics charges, according to the sheriff’s office. Complaints from the community led the sheriff’s office to conduct surveillance on Jacq...
A police chase in Chadbourn ended in drug charges during the early morning hours of Aug. 22. Davin Jan-Michael Zimmerman, 46, of Durham and New Jersey, was held under $25,000 secured bond, according t...
UPDATED 2 p.m. Handgun was stolen in Whiteville store heist last year. Three suspects, a handgun stolen from a local store and a “significant” quantity of drugs were seized by Whiteville Police and Al...
Two containers of a substance believed to be marijuana and a firearm sent a Tabor City man to jail Wednesday. Zachary Dashad Green, 22, of 120 Jamaica Queen Lane, Tabor City, was jailed under a $32,50...
A combined effort by Columbus and Bladen county investigators led to the arrest of three narcotics suspects Thursday (today). Deputies executed a search warrant on two residences on Booker T. Washingt...
McPherson was in jail for his role in an assault on a woman and her three-legged dog. A prisoner at the Columbus County detention Center has been charged with two counts of interfering with a jail spr...
The routine search of a prison employee heading to work turned up a bag of tobacco Aug. 20, according to the Columbus County sheriff’s office. juJuan Lowell Lambert, 33, was arrested for possession of...
An apparent roommate of a Durham man found dead in the Cape Fear River has been arrested for the killing. Jim Robert Goins, 41, was arrested in Wake County by U.S. Marshals and Bladen County Sheriff’s...
Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday Betty Smith Bryant, 63, has been charged with first degree arson after allegedly setting fire to the home, according to the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office. The fire...
Jewelry and cash were taken from a Gilliard Road woman in an alleged robbery Aug. 25. Deputies responded to the home near Chadbourn on a disturbance call. Kayla Todd told the sheriff’s office that a m...
A detective working on another investigation ended up literally chasing down a new case just after midnight Monday morning. Det. Paul Rockenbach was on Seven Creeks Highway in Nakina when he spo...
UPDATE: Monday 2:58 p.m. Bladen County authorities have identified Kenneth Ross Covell, 54, as the body found in the Cape Fear River near Golf Course Road.The body of the suspected murder victim was f...
A Shallotte man found out you can’t outrun the long arm of the law Aug. 18. Skyler Wade Peacock, 20, was charged with child abuse, fleeing to elude arrest, carless and reckless driving heorin possessi...
DSS takes custody of child from “filthy” home. Two women were arrested on drug charges and a toddler was turned over to Social Services after an Aug. 13 raid on a home described as “filthy...