Public Safety

Three men were charged after county Vice-Narcotics detectives raided a Whiteville home Thursday. Brandon Tyler Butler, 30, Ricky Dale Butler Sr., 60, and Cameron Quattlebaum, 26, were arrested after an investigation sparked by citizen complaints, the sheriff’s office said in a press release. Brandon Butler listed their addresses as 203 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville on court documents. Ricky Butler gave his address as 56 Green’s Pond Rd., Elizabethtown....

A joint operation between Columbus and Bladen deputies and Elizabethtown Police led to the arrest of an armed robbery suspect Monday. Glenn Davis Bowen, 66, of 509 S. Lower St., was held under $100,000 secured bond, charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, according to detention center reports. Deputies were called to the Family Dollar on Old Stage Road (N.C. 87) in Riegelwood Friday to a report of...

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...