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Two teens are under juvenile petitions for a $10,000 vandalism spree at Whiteville High School July 29. Lt. Andre Jackson of the Whiteville Police said the suspects are 17 and 13 years old. Sgt. A. Gore of the WPD was called to the school on Lee Street around 9:20 a.m. The suspects had forced their way inside a main building, then damaged five security cameras and two Smart...
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina said investigators have seized nearly $5 million worth of a cryptocurrency from a scam known as “pig butchering.” The seized funds were from a legitimate crypto firm called Tether, which is tied to the U.S. dollar. Investigators traced funds to cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with the laundering of criminally derived proceeds stolen from victims of crypto investment scams. The...
An armed Lumberton fentanyl trafficker was sentenced Wednesday (today) to 150 months in prison. The U.S. District Attorney’s Office said Charlton Townsend, 29, pled guilty on May 22 to one count of conspiracy with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and a quantity of cocaine and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents and...