Public Safety

A teenager has been charged in the county’s fourth fatal car crash this year. Nathan Hester, 18, of Whiteville, was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle after he was released from an area hospital, according to the Highway Patrol. First Sgt. A. Pait said the crash occurred on Red Store Road around 6:09 p.m. Tuesday. Hester was traveling south in a 2006 Toyota SUV when he went off...

Dash cam footage led to two suspects facing charges for allegedly throwing rocks at moving cars, causing thousands of dollars in damages. Cameron Austin Rockwell, 24 and a 17 year old juvenile male allegedly threw rock at multiple vehicles along Strawberry Boulevard, Haynes Lennon highway and U.S. 74 Sunday, a report said. Rockwell is held under $150,000 secured bond on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon...

A suspect who allegedly ran over a deputy’s foot with his car while escaping a traffic stop was arrested the next day – when he might have gotten away with a warning ticket. Antonio DeWayne Goodman, 32, of 117 Canyon Dr., clarendon, was held under a $1,000 secured bond, according to detention center reports. He was charged with fleeing to elude arrest, resisting an officer, assault on an...