Public Safety

Citing a pattern of poor performance and missed calls, County Commissioners voted to cancel the emergency services contract with Nakina Fire and Rescue today (Wednesday). The board met in executive session to discuss potential litigation for several minutes after being briefed on this morning’s announcement about International Paper curtailing operations in the Riegelwood facility (see related story). After the executive session, Chairman Ricky Bullard asked for a motion...

Tabor City Police arrested a man Monday who allegedly said he was going to shoot officers who came to take him in. James Ricco Gore, 52, of 503 W. Sixth Street, was held under $2,500 bond on charges of kidnapping, resisting, assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats. He was taken intio custody around 7 p.m. Tabor City police reported that Gore’s wife filed charges against him...

Drug charges have been filed against a Tabor City prison guard who was allegedly smuggling contraband into the prison. Latosha Shante Walker, 37, of Wilmington, is being held under $5,000 secured bond on charges of sale and delivery of marijuana and possession of drugs in a prison, according to detention center reports. Walker was in a pre-shift inspection at the prison around 6:20 p.m. Sunday when another officer...