Public Safety

A larceny suspect discovered the hard way that he had picked the wrong neighborhood Sunday when he ended up in the custody of an off-duty Whiteville Police officer.  Victor Parris, 27, is being held under no bond on a charge of attempted larceny. His address was listed as Columbia, S.C. in detention center reports. Deputies were called to the 3300 block of New Britton Highway around 8 a.m....

An early morning wreck in Tabor City claimed the life of a Holly Ridge man. Phillip Ray Grant, 60, crossed the center line and struck a commercial vehicle head-on just before 5 a.m. on May 5. A Tabor City police report showed that Grant was heading east on U.S. 701 when the crash occurred. Grant was driving a 2006 Toyota automobile that collided with a 2024 Freightliner owned...

A shoplifter allegedly assaulted two Dollar General employees May 8 before fleeing the scene. The sheriff’s office reported that deputies were called to the Dollar General on Cronly Drive in Delco around 9:15 a.m. Staff at the store said a woman entered the store and allegedly tried to shoplift several items, according to the report. When she was confronted by the employees, the report said the woman “became...