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Bus Safety Effort Starts Monday

October 13, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Bus Safety Effort Starts Monday

State Highway Patrol Troopers and other agencies will be aggressively enforcing school bus safety laws next week as part of Operation Stop Arm. Passing a stopped school bus is a Class 1 misdemeanor in North [Read More]

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Cow on the Loose in Pleasant Plains

October 13, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Cow on the Loose in Pleasant Plains

Animal Protective Services officers are riding the range this afternoon, chasing a stray Charolais cow in the Pleasant Plains area. The cow was first reported Wednesday evening. It’s been wandering Pleasant Plains, Antioch and Singletary [Read More]

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Mower-Towing Suspects Sought

October 12, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Mower-Towing Suspects Sought

A man and woman are being sought after a pre-dawn lawnmower ride south of Whiteville.  Elicia Porter Sellers, 45, of Clarendon, and Timothy Lewis, 35, of Whiteville, are sought by deputies for allegedly stealing a [Read More]

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Yergeau Reinstated by City

October 12, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Yergeau Reinstated by City

Fire Chief David Yergeau was back on duty at 8 a.m. Wednesday (today) after being reinstated by the city. Yergeau was put on suspension last month due to an unspecified complaint. The city conducted an [Read More]

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State Says 99 percent of Fall Wildfire are Manmade

October 11, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on State Says 99 percent of Fall Wildfire are Manmade

As fall fire season gets underway, state and federal forestry officials are urging extreme caution with both recreational fires and controlled burns of all sizes and kinds. Peak fall fire season runs from October through [Read More]

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Cocaine at Checkpoint Sends Three to Jail

October 11, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Cocaine at Checkpoint Sends Three to Jail

Cocaine and cash sent three men to jail Saturday in the Dothan area. Jamie Mejia Garrido, 36; Juan Enrique Guerrero, 32; and Jaime Mesia, 21, all of Bolivia, were arrested on charges of felony cocaine [Read More]

Patricia Ann Jackson (CCSO)
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Woman Charged After Motel Domestic

October 10, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Woman Charged After Motel Domestic

A Hallsboro woman was jailed after allegedly breaking a windshield and trying to burn a man’s car at the Holiday Motel. Patricia Ann Jackson, 39, was held under $5,000 secured bond Saturday on charges of [Read More]

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Corrothers Gets Life Without Parole

October 10, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Corrothers Gets Life Without Parole

After more than two weeks of testimony it took four hours for a Columbus County Jury to find Daquon Rollo Carrothers guilty of first degree murder today (Oct. 10). Corrothers was sentenced to life without [Read More]

Paul Wallce Young (CCSO)
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Bolton Man Arrested Again for Drugs 

October 6, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Bolton Man Arrested Again for Drugs 

It was déjà vu for a Bolton man Tuesday.  Paul Wallace Young, 46, of Bolton was arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop for the second time in less than two weeks. Arrest reports [Read More]

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Threat Leads to More Security at WCHS

October 6, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Threat Leads to More Security at WCHS

Additional deputies were put in place at West Columbus High School at Cerro Gordo today after an alleged threat of a mass shooting. The sheriff’s office reported that someone made the threat Wednesday. The CCSO [Read More]

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Rogers Sworn in as Interim Sheriff

October 6, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Rogers Sworn in as Interim Sheriff

Interim Sheriff William “Bill” Rogers was sworn in this morning at 7 a.m., along with deputies and Animal Protective Services staff. Rogers was appointed to the temporary post by the County Commissioners Wednesday. He retired [Read More]

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Retired Trooper Named Interim Sheriff

October 5, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Retired Trooper Named Interim Sheriff

Retired Highway Patrol Trooper William “Bill” Rogers has been named interim sheriff. The Evergreen resident will serve until the Sheriff Jody Greene is reinstated, or the winner of the election is sworn into office Nov. [Read More]

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Interim Sheriff Will Be Named Today

October 5, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Interim Sheriff Will Be Named Today

County commissioners will meet at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) in an emergency session to appoint an interim sheriff. A notice from the board clerk said the meeting is open to the public and will also [Read More]

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Bladen Man Charged in Property Scam

October 5, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Bladen Man Charged in Property Scam

Bladen authorities have arrested a man for selling property without permission, and pocketing the money. Kevin Heath Todd, 47, was released on $25,000 unsecured bond on charged of obtaining property by false pretenses, forging a [Read More]

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Greene Suspended from Office

October 4, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Greene Suspended from Office

Breaking news Sheriff Jody Greene has been suspended from office pending a hearing Oct. 24 in Columbus County Superior Court. Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser signed the order today, and it was served to Greene [Read More]

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Tabor DWI Suspect Couldn’t Find Car

October 4, 2022 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Tabor DWI Suspect Couldn’t Find Car

It took a photograph to convince a Tabor City man that his car wasn’t stolen.  Tracy Dean Brown, 51, of 403 S. Lewis St., Tabor City, was charged with DWI in the Friday incident. He [Read More]

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