Public Safety

Two Columbus County theft suspects driving a stolen SUV fled across the state line and wrecked Monday, where they were taken into custody in Horry County Police. Aaron Gore of Tabor City and George Herman “Dusty” Rowell of Loris, S.C. are being held in the J. Reuben Long Detention Center, awaiting extradition. Investigators were attempting to make a traffic stop on the vehicle near Tabor City during an...

One man is recovering after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times early Monday in Fair Bluff. Chris Dyron Faulk, 44, was held under no bond, charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, according to Detention Center records. His address was listed as 589 Elm St., Fair Bluff. The sheriff’s office said deputies were called to Goodman Street just after midnight Monday...

An alleged gunman who fired multiple shots at the Elizabethtown Police Department has died after a shootout with Bladen County Deputies. “The individual responsible for these heinous and dangerous acts is no longer with us,” Elizabethtown Police posted in a statement on social media. The State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to review the case, Bladen Sheriff Jim McVicker said in a statement released on social...