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Drinking and driving on the road or the water this weekend could mean a trip to jail rather than to the beach or pool. After 2021’s highway death toll was the highest since 1973, agencies across the state are stepping up patrols through Sept. 11 to stop impaired drivers during the annual Labor Day Booze It and Lose It campaign.Driving while impaired is against the law and could...
Deputies arrested a Lake Waccamaw man for larceny and drug possession after he allegedly took snacks and glue from a Dollar General store – and had narcotics on the ATV he was riding. Jeffery Scott Coleman, 48, of 938 Jefferson Street, was held under a $5,000 secured bond. He was charged with possession of narcotics, drug paraphernalia, simple possession of narcotics, and misdemeanor larceny, according to detention center...
Deputies arrested a Nakina man after he allegedly turned up impaired at Nakina Middle School Friday. Scott Bennett Gore, 41, was charged with disorderly conduct at a school, resisting an officer and second degree trespassing, according to detention center reports. His bond was set at $2,500 unsecured. The sheriff’s office reported that Gore was apparently impaired when he went to the Nakina Middle Open House. After he was...