Public Safety

The driver of a pickup sustained a scratch when the rear window of his truck was shot early Sunday. Vincent Drayton called the sheriff’s office after he said he was driving on Woodyard Road near the railroad crossing around 3:39 a.m. when someone apparently fired a shot at his vehicle. The glass was damaged and Drayton sustained a minor injury that he described as a scratch, the report...

A homeless man was cut on the toe and robbed of $3.58 after an early morning fight with another panhandler in Whiteville March 4. Bruce Pollard, 24, told Whiteville Police he was panhandling near the Hardee’s at Washington and J.K. Powell around 4 a.m. when a second man approached him asking for money. Pollard, who is homeless, reported that he gave the second man 50 cents, and a...

A Chadbourn area resident narrowly escaped injury when someone threw a rock through her window early Monday. Moesha Gause of 44 Larry Drive, Chadbourn told deputies she and Kendal Reynolds were in a bedroom when they heard footsteps, then “a loud bang” as the window was shattered. The rock came through the window, the report said, and “nearly stuck her in the head.” Deputies reported that most of...