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Two gunmen allegedly blocked their victim in, riddled his car with bullets and fled the scene Saturday near Tabor City. Billy Lenny McCovers, 24, told deputies he was driving down Miller Road when a vehicle pulled out and followed him for a short distance before passing. A second vehicle then pulled in behind McCovers. When the three vehicles reached an intersection, the report said, suspects in both cars...
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) on Friday announced additional go-live plans for counties transitioning from paper files to Enterprise Justice (Odyssey), the state’s cloud-hosted digital case management system, which currently serves Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties. As announced Nov. 1, 2023, twelve northeastern counties that comprise Track 3 of the statewide upgrade to Enterprise Justice will go live on Feb. 5, and Track 4 will include Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Vance, and Warren counties. Columbus...
Updated information. Whiteville Police have made their third unrelated arrest in less than a month on child sex offense charges. Devon Michael Bishop, 40, was arrested today (Jan. 10). He is being held under $100,000 secured bond, charged with ten counts each of second and third degree sexual exploitation of a minor. His address was listed as 104 S. Thompson St., Whiteville Warrants show that between July 2023...