Public Safety

Tabor City Police have charged a man with having sex with an underage girl. David Oryan Eckert III, 31, of Tabor City, was arrested Thursday (March 10) on one count each of indecent liberties with a minor and statutory sex offense. He was placed under $200,000 secured bond, according to jail reports. Floyd’s warrant and booking information contained different addresses. The warrant states that Eckert had sexual relations...

Deputies responding to a suspicious vehicle call found a man who was reported missing hours before – and arrested him. Jarred Randall Little, 24, was held under a secured bond of $8,500 on charges of drug and paraphernalia possession, trespassing, and two counts of breaking and entering a motor vehicle. He listed a Willard address on jail reports. The sheriff’s office reported that during the early morning hours...

• Both victims recovering. The two victims of Sunday’s shooting in Whiteville are recovering, according to police. Paul Register Jr., 41, and Shamika McAllister, 41, were both struck by gunfire in the incident.  WPD reported that police were called to Patio Place Drive at Barbcrest Apartments around 10:21 p.m. to investigate shots being fired. At the scene they found McAllister and Register had been seriously wounded. Both were...