Updated 5:29 p.m. State investigators were called in after a Chadbourn man in the county detention center was severely assaulted by other inmates. Chief Deputy Aaron Herring confirmed that the State B...
A Lake Waccamaw area man died in a Leland shooting Sunday. Another local man faces charges connected with the case, but is not charged with the death. Leland Police said Kwaze Walker, 22, with a...
• How do you feel about firearms in businesses? Join the discussion on the Columbus County News Facebook page. Gunowners say they are turning their backs on Hills Grocery stores after the announcement...
Eastern Columbus residents turned out Tuesday for the first-ever National Night Out observance at the sheriff’s office substation. While temperatures still flirted with 100 at 6 p.m., deputies a...
Whiteville Police recovered a stolen truck and trailer – and the alleged thief — within minutes Tuesday (today). Jimmy Allen Lowery was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, felony...
Deputies used the county’s armored vehicle and tear gas to end a standoff on Beaverdam Road with no injuries early Monday. Brandon Nobles, 33, of 3810 Old Cribbtown Rd., Chadbourn, was charged with po...
Surveillance footage and a bank card led to the arrest of a Delco man on multiple theft charges. Curtis Wayne Cruse, 50, of 5316 Delco Prosper Rd., was charged with three counts each of misdemeanor la...
No one was injured after a suspect shot at deputies in a domestic violence call this morning. Brandon Nobles was taken into custody around 4 a.m., Chief Deputy Aaron Herring of the Columbus Sheriff’s ...
One of Whiteville’s most notorious havens for crime, especially drug sales, will soon be a parking lot. After a year’s worth of work in the courts, demolition crews levelled the home at 205 Martin Lut...
Thieves targeted AR-15 rifles and handguns in multiple thefts being investigated by the sheriff’s office in recent days. Reports show that Ned Wayne Taste Jr. contacted law enforcement just after midn...
The suspect in a Wrightsville Beach sexual assault was arrested at Lake Waccamaw Monday. Walter Bennett Craven, 56, of 108 Lakeshore Dr., Lake Waccamaw, was charged with one count each of first degree...
The sheriff’s office has arrested a senior citizen from Leland on drug trafficking charges. Freddie Everett Ross, 81, was charged with three counts of trafficking opiates, and sale and delivery of opi...
After complaints about open air drug sales at Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County Vice-Narcotics agents arrested an alleged customer and dealer July 14. Conrad Demetrius Powell, 51, and Ernest Jerome Bland...
An investigation into fentanyl trafficking sent two men to jail July 7 at the Whiteville Econo Lodge. The sheriff’s office said Lamarquise Pollard, 23 and James Edward Campbell, 30, were arreste...
• The case is the first documented rabid animal this year in Columbus. The county’s first documented case of rabies for the year was found in Evergreen Wednesday. In a press release, Animal Protective...
• Victim was defending fiancé’s child, officials said. Two women are under secured bonds after allegedly beating and pepper spraying a woman, dragging her down a highway and running over her wit...