Public Safety

County detectives are investigating two apparent drive-by shootings that left property damage but no injuries. On June 28, deputies were called to the 2000 block of Williams Road, Chadbourn at 10:26 p.m. Nine people, including four teenagers, were in the home at the time of the shooting. A Lexus and a Ford sustained around $1,500 damage each. Deputies collected a number of shell casings in the area. On...

Thieves took 20 bottles of Oxycodone from a drug store after breaching a brick wall Friday. John Thomas called the sheriff’s office after discovering that someone had broken into the Riegelwood Mutual Drug Store at 27449 Andrew Jackson Highway in Delco. Deputies were dispatched at 5:07 a.m., the report said. The unidentified suspects broke through a brick wall and crawled through the hole into the pharmacy. Thomas reported...

A man who was allegedly abusing two dogs allegedly assaulted a man who interceded June 28. The sheriff’s office reported that the dogs were “bothering people” at Lumber River campground, and the dog’s owner was contacted to pick them up. The reported victim, James Anderson, said the dogs’ owner arrived and “began beating the dogs until they were whimpering and crying.” He then allegedly slammed one of the...