Public Safety

A Whiteville man died Monday after he was partially ejected in a single vehicle crash near Brunswick. Highway Patrol Sgt. B. Ezzell said Claudio Salvador Saballos, 41, was not wearing a seatbelt when the crash occurred around 9 p.m. Saballos was traveling north on N.C. 905 near N.C. 130 when he drove off the right shoulder, overcorrected, and crossed the center line to the left shoulder. His 2002...

Crime roundup for Aug. 31 • Deputies arrested a Burgaw man after he allegedly stabbed and cut a man near Whiteville Monday.  Dallas Vance Shepard, 30, is being held under $25,000 secured bond on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats, according to jail records. He allegedly attacked Jarrad Dishaw at a home on Gore’s Trailer Road...

Ignoring the state’s helmet law ended badly for a South Carolina man Tuesday. Sgt. Brian Campbell of the Tabor city Police was on patrol along Pireway Road when he said he spotted Gavin Christopher Bardi, 31, riding a moped without a helmet. Campbell initiated a traffic stop on Bardi, the report said. A records check showed he was wanted in South Carolina on a fugitive warrant. While Campbell...