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Three alleged drug traffickers were arrested Thursday after a raid on a home near Whiteville. The sheriff’s office reported that Steven Scott Best, Tara Shawn Little, and Wesley Scott Best were jailed after a long-term investigation into alleged drug activity at 1088 Vinson Boulevard. Vice-Narcotics detectives conducted surveillance and made multiple controlled purchases of cocaine and methamphetamine from Steven Best, according to a press release. Steven Best, 55,...
An infant was transported to hospital after ingesting narcotics, and a woman has been charged in the case. Andrea Jane Millender, 20, of 41 Oleander Dr., Whiteville, was placed under $50,000 secured bond on a single charge of exposing a child to controlled substance, resulting in ingestion, detention center records show. Warrants show that on Aug. 27, Millender allegedly allowed a year-old baby to ingest Subutex, a prescription...
A former Columbus County pastor facing sex offense charges has been arrested for embezzlement. Devin Cyrus Carroll, 23, of 428 Royal Arch Dr., Conway, S.C., was placed under $75,000 secured bond, charged with 16 counts of embezzlement. Carroll is alleged to have taken around $58,000 from Happy Home Baptist Church during his tenure there. Most of the money he took for his own use was to be paid...