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Chadbourn’s Dangerous Dog Board will meet Thursday at 5:30 p.m. The board will hear from the town’s Animal Control Officer regarding two dogs that have been deemed potentially dangerous. The board was established in 2024 with the new animal control ordinance, which was passed due to a large number of stray and feral dogs in town. The Dangerous Dog Board is tasked with hearing from Animal Control and...
• Suspect allegedly abused victim for years. Bladen County authorities have charged a Harrells area man with multiple sex offenses after he allegedly abused a family member for several years. Joshua Poe Hatfield, 41, is being held under no bond in the Bladen County Detention Center. He is charges with statutory sex offense with a child, statutory rape, and sexual battery, according to the Bladen sheriff’s office. In...
Following are the driving while impaired arrests reported in Columbus County for the period Aug. 25 through Sept. 2. All records and information are obtained through arrest reports and warrants. All suspects are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law. An arrest is not a conviction of driving while impaired or any other crime, but is the result of reasonable suspicion that the person may...