Public Safety

A Fair Bluff man reportedly shot himself Tuesday when a deputy went to his Fair Bluff home with an order for arrest. The sheriff’s office said a deputy made contact with Tony Tant, 53, at his Conway Road home around 3 p.m. The deputy was there to serve an outstanding warrant for arrest. Tant told the deputy he needed to lock an outbuilding, according to the report, and...

Crack cocaine and illegal parking sent a Wilmington man to jail early Monday morning. Michael Dean Benoy, age 51, was stopped in the middle of the roadway on N.C. 211 near Bolton when a deputy spotted his vehicle around 2 a.m., a report with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office said. When a deputy stopped to help Benoy, the suspect said he was “looking for something but acted suspicious,”...

One woman was shot and multiple homes and vehicles were damaged in a series of shootings that began Thanksgiving, according to sheriff’s reports. It is not known if any of the shootings were related, and all are under investigation. On Thanksgiving, several homes and vehicles were targeted along Godwin Trail near Chadbourn. The incident was reported at 6:48 p.m. Three homes and two vehicles sustained damage from gunfire,...