Public Safety

A video posted on social media shows Officers using force to capture their fleeing suspect. Sheriff Rogers addresses the video circulating on social media after a vehicle pursuit that occurred Monday night in Chadbourn. This is the video from social media. Sheriff Roger’s Responds to Social Media Video and launches investigation of force used in Arrest in Chadbourn

  Three men were shot to death and another seriously injured Monday in Clarkton, according to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office. Greg Dennis, Randy Benton and Phillip Palmer were reported shot to death in a home off East Roberts Street. Kevin Musser was airlifted to Chapel Hill. Bladen Sheriff Jim McVicker said Musser has been released and is being interviewed by investigators. He is considered a “person of...

The man who shot at and threatened a repo truck driver will serve 84-113 months in prison. Ronald Allan Keaton was convicted March 12 in Columbus County Superior Court on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, armed robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime, according to a release from the District Attorney’s Office. On May 28, 2020, Daniel Merenda, a town truck and repossession...