Public Safety

It was a hot day in Columbus June 17, and the night got even hotter. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office joined forces with three other law enforcement agencies to conduct a saturation patrol in the Nakina / Pireway community of Columbus County on June 17. Lumberton Police, as well as deputies from Brunswick and Bladen, assisted in the operation. “Deputies saturated this area of the county,” Sheriff Jody...

Updated 11 a.m. Thursday The sheriff’s office is investigating after a driver in a traffic stop shot himself in the head Wednesday. In a press release, the CCSO said a deputy on patrol in Evergreen stopped the man for a moving violation in the 10000 block of Haynes Lennon Road. “During the course of the vehicle stop, the 21-year-old male driver of the vehicle was seriously injured from...

The couple who left the Seven Creeks Highway Dollar General with dog food and a pregnancy test came back and “the situation was resolved,” according to the sheriff’s office. On June 1, according to a report with the sheriff’s office, the man and woman appeared to use the self pay register at the store. No purchase was recorded, and the couple left the store. “The incident was a...