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Updated and corrected information at 9:45 p.m. Two rescue vehicles were wrecked and third was damaged as heavy rains brought flash flooding to much of Columbus today (Sunday). Radio traffic indicated that a Tabor City Rescue Quick Response Vehicle (QRV) overturned on N.C. 130 en route to a call. When a Lake Waccamaw Rescue QRV responded, that vehicle also wrecked. A Whiteville Rescue heavy rescue truck was also...
Whiteville Police have arrested a man on charges of possessing and duplicating child pornography. Bryson Benjamin Jonston, 22, was arrested Monday on one count each of second and third degree sexual exploitation of a minor He was held under $25,000 secured bond,according to detention center reports. His address was listed as 417 N. Madison St., Whiteville. Warrants drawn by Det. M. Cruz of WPD allege that Johnston had...
No contraband was found but an early morning drone flight over Columbus Correctional caught the eye of law enforcement Tuesday. The sheriff’s office said that prison officials spotted to drone around 7 a.m. and contacted law enforcement. A search of the grounds turned up no sign of items of anything being dropped inside the prison perimeter, the report said. The report said the drone was spotted heading toward...