An argument turned into a car chase involving a four wheeler this morning, and one man was shot. Sheriff Bill Rogers said the incident happened near Boardman around 2 a.m. A disagreement between two men [Read More]
A four year old boy is in stable condition at UNC Hospital after he was struck in the neck by gunfire in Cerro Gordo Monday. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office and State Bureau of Investigation [Read More]
The man who killed a Bladenboro resident in a drive-by shooting will serve up to 28 years in prison. Daniel Autry pleaded guilty today (Nov. 4) in front of Chief Superior Court Judge Ashley Gore [Read More]
An Elizabethtown man is out on bond on felony drug charges because he failed to wear a seatbelt. James Warner Littrell, 19, of David Street, Elizabethtown, was charged with possession of psychedelic mushrooms, drug paraphernalia [Read More]
A man narrowly escaped injury after he was robbed at gunpoint and reportedly shot at Wednesday. The victim, Kelly Delane Mills, said a man he knows assaulted him and took $695 from Mills on Pine [Read More]
Four people suspects face charges after an attempt to supply prisoners at the county jail with contraband. Curtis Demetrius Gowans, 36; Christopher Jerome Taylor, 47; Latonya Willis, 40; and Savannah Willis, 38, face charges of [Read More]
The sheriff’s office has completed its sixth and last – for now – hurricane relief trip to the North Carolina mountains. Sheriff Bill Rogers said two tractor-trailer loads of local contributions were delivered to Riverside [Read More]
No one was injured when a Peacock Road home was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The sheriff’s office reported that fire units were called to 15575 Peacock Road at 7:09 a.m. Cpl. Z. Moody of the [Read More]
Checkpoints led to drug charges in two separate cases Monday. James Walter Dicicco, 57, was released on a $50,000 secured bond after he was charged with trafficking in cocaine, possession with intent to manufacture, sell [Read More]
A Tabor City area man is in jail after he allegedly had a suppressed handgun converted to fully automatic as well as a marijuana growing operation in his home. Dustin Randall Duncan, 34, of 7922 [Read More]
The victim of a shooting near Whiteville Saturday called 911 after she was assaulted. The woman later died at Columbus Regional. Frederick Smith, 71, was charged with murder and jailed just after midnight Sunday morning, [Read More]
The Highway Patrol is seeking any information about a hit and run early Saturday that resulted in a fatality in Fair Bluff. Troopers were called to the scene of that incident a short time before [Read More]
An investigation is underway after a local man serving time for drug charges died Wednesday while incarcerated at Albemarle Correctional Facility. Curtis Levi Moore, 38, died at a hospital near the prison early Wednesday. A [Read More]
A Green Acres drug trafficker has been sentenced to 35-51 months in prison after a conviction led to a plea deal in two separate narcotics cases. Banks Raphel Batton, 37, was found guilty of trafficking [Read More]
A fire on the stateline required the assistance of multiple departments Wednesday. A home, multiple vehicles and another structure were consumed in the blaze near Tabor City. Smoke was visible for several miles. No one [Read More]
A traffic violation led to the arrest of a Williams Tosnwhip man and his conviction for multiple drug felonies. Johnathan Terrell Jordan, 36, was sentenced to 19-24 years in prison on Sept. 25, the sheriff’s [Read More]
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