The money left in a watermelon honor system cash box Tuesday was less than honorable. Robert Worley of Cerro Gordo contacted the sheriff’s office after someone left a movie prop $100 bill at his roadside [Read More]
Chadbourn Police have charged a Nakina woman after she allegedly overdosed with a four-month-old child in her car. Victoria Alex Anne Fipps, 26, was released on a secured bond, according to jail reports. She was [Read More]
The body of a Shallotte man was pulled from the Lumber River this morning after he apparently drowned at the Lumber River Campground. Brian Thomas Lynch, 36, of Shallotte was camping near the water, according [Read More]
The latest Columbus County sobriety checkpoint tallied 67 violations Friday night, including 13 drug offenses. The checkpoint was set up at the intersection of Princess Ann and N.C. 242 near Williamson’s Crossroads, the sheriff’s office [Read More]
One man was airlifted from Tabor City after he was stabbed in the head during a melee near Chadbourn Monday. Shikei Daniels, 24, was transported to New Hanover Regional. Daniels was a passenger in a [Read More]
The operation involving Bladen and Columbus counties was the second meth trafficking investigation in a week. Three Bladen County residents are in jail after the second case involving crystal methamphetamine trafficking in a week here. [Read More]
An arrest has been made in a shooting where one man was wounded and a juvenile almost hit by gunfire in Whiteville. Christopher Jerome Taylor, 43, was arrested by Whiteville Police July 19 for assault [Read More]
A joint operation between Whiteville Police, the sheriff’s office, and the State Bureau of Investigation jailed two alleged drug traffickers and pulled a quantity of narcotics off the street. Marion Lamont Flowers, 42, of 215 [Read More]
Law enforcement turned out in force for a rainy, muddy manhunt after a suspect allegedly entered an elderly woman’s home Monday. Daniel Graham Hayes, 31, allegedly cut the telephone wires to the woman’s Blackwell Road [Read More]
Eastern Columbus residents have fought for years for more patrols by the sheriff’s office, and Sheriff Jody Greene said Wednesday (today) that additional coverage is coming. Greene, Chief Deputy Aaron Herring, and County Manager Eddie [Read More]
A Lumberton teen became the county’s twelfth highway fatality Monday, and a dump truck driver has been charged in his death. Matthew Sessoms, 18, died when his Toyota Scion was struck by a Department of [Read More]
The man charged with a February 2020 murder is back in jail after a drug arrest Saturday. Jadekiss Jaheim Watkins, 20, was arrested on Elwell Ferry Road in Council after a vehicle stop by members [Read More]
Town leaders discuss violence in Chadbourn Interim Town Manager Jerome Chestnut called on the citizens of Chadbourn to help fight the crime that has surged in the town in recent months. “We should be out [Read More]
Three people were charged with trafficking in cocaine after more than a kilo of cocaine was seized in a traffic stop Friday. Lourdes Dixon, 56; Alexander Shellman, 60, and Hugo Nunez-Jaimes, 43, were arrested July [Read More]
The District Attorney’s office released the names of the three people gunned down at a party in Chadbourn Saturday. Deonde Qwabe Sadler, 27; Mack Darren Jenkins Jr., 26 and Kameesha Daezhneka Powell, 21, were killed [Read More]
BREAKING NEWS Chadbourn Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are on the scene of what may be the town’s first triple homicide. Interim Police Chief Ken Elliot said CPD was responding to a shots [Read More]
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