Public Safety

A drug suspect had a modified AR-15 loaded with armor-piercing rounds when he was arrested May 29. Dalvin Davonta Smith, 24, of 515 Pine Circle Dr., Tabor City, was held under $250,000 secured bond on charges of trafficking in opiates, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, marijuana and narcotics, and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, detention records show. Vice-Narcotics detectives were on patrol in...

A Williamson Road man was severely beaten by an unknown assailant Friday, then dragged in to a wooded area and left. Dep. S. Lee reported that the sheriff’s office responded to a call about an assault Tuesday just before 2 p.m. The report  said Arnold Nance, 70, was being loaded in an ambulance when deputies arrived. Nance told deputies he was assaulted Friday night in his home. He...

Someone broken into a home, released the family cat, left a shirt, and may have damaged a field near Tabor City Friday, without stealing anything of value. A resident of the home in the 100 block of Country Lane called 911 after returning to the home and finding the front door ajar. Nothing was reported missing, the report said, except for the family cat. Lights were turned on...