Public Safety

Whiteville Police investigating a trespassing report Thursday arrested a man with two handguns, one of which had been illegally converted to a full-automatic weapon. Jesus G. Rojas, 23, of 52 Caswell Sellers Dr., Whiteville, was held under $75,000 secured bond, according to detention center reports. He is charged with two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon of mass destruction, resisting an officer and unauthorized...

In less than an hour Friday, Brandon Wayne Mincey was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Mincey, 44, was on trial for nearly three weeks in the death of Alissa Lee. Lee’s body was found in the water under Heartbeat Bridge in Nakina in April 2023. It was estimated she had been in the water for more than a...

Closing statements are underway today (June 12) in the first degree murder trial of Brandon Wayne Mincey. Mincey, 44, is accused of killing Alissa Lee and disposing of her body off Heartbeat Bridge in April 2023. Lee’s body was dropped in the river sometime between April 5 and April 14 before being discover April 25, according to warrants and the sheriff’s office. Mincey was originally charged as an...