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Clerk of Superior Court Jess Hill said he was surprised when he got a text message threatening him with potential legal action over a traffic ticket. Hill said that he had not been stopped and issued a citation. He occasionally uses toll roads while traveling to other parts of the state, but not very often. When he did travel on the toll roads, he said, “I always paid...
Deputies had to use a Taser on an impaired man who was allegedly knocking on windows along Rough and Ready Road June 30. Dustin Rawls, 33, of 1327 Midway Rd., Whiteville, was charged with intoxicated and disruptive, assault on a government employee, property damage, and resisting an officer, detention center reports show. His bond was set at $25,000. The sheriff’s office was called to a Rough and Ready...
The woman who claimed an infant had been raped is facing felony charges after the accusation was disproven. Tonia Nicole Godwin, 40, of 167 Page’s Mill Rd., Cerro Gordo, was held under $5,000 secured bond under a single charge of filing a felony false report involving a child victim, according to detention center reports. Godwin allegedly contacted the sheriff’s office June 28 and said that her five month...