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A woman is recovering from serious injuries after she was allegedly sexually assaulted and beaten by her estranged husband. Christopher James Frank, 25, of Pecan Wood Lane, Elizabethtown, is being held under no bond, according to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office. He was charged with first degree kidnapping; first degree forcible sex offense; assault inflicting serious bodily injury; misdemeanor sexual assault; misdemeanor assault on a female; crime of...
Victims of an alleged timber theft scheme are invited to attend a meeting with representatives of Congressman David Rouzer Sept. 8 in Whiteville. Joel Blake Lee, 55, is out on a secured bond, facing multiple charges of timber theft, exploitation of the elderly, forgery of deeds or wills, and obtaining property by false pretenses. The Clayton man was arrested by the NC. Forest Service in July. Lee, representing...
Norfolk Junior “Fuzzy” Best will spend the rest of his life in prison, after a Bladen County Superior Court Jury upheld his murder conviction Monday (Aug. 31). Best – now 72 — was convicted in 1993 of the stabbing deaths of Leslie and Gertrude Baldwin in their Burkhead Street home on Nov. 30, 1991. Mrs. Baldwin was also raped, and the couple was robbed of a significant amount...