Public Safety

Deputies have charged a Snake Island Road woman with child abuse after her toddler son was found playing naked in a roadway. Cheyanne Angel Spurling, 23, of 604 Snake Island Rd., Whiteville and 308 Cedar Branch Rd., Chadbourn, was released on a $2,500 unsecured bond on a single charge of misdemeanor child abuse, according to detention center records. She was served with the warrant Friday. Warrants show that...

Deputies have charged a Cerro Gordo man after he allegedly threatened a deputy with a suppressed, fully automatic weapon and assaulted his wife Saturday. Marty Levon Strickland, 64, of 3781 Cherry Grove Church Road, was charge with felony possession of a weapon of mass destruction; assault by pointing a gun; assault on a law enforcement officer by pointing a gun; resisting; and interfering with emergency communications. He was...