Public Safety

The operation involving Bladen and Columbus counties was the second meth trafficking investigation in a week. Three Bladen County residents are in jail after the second case involving crystal methamphetamine trafficking in a week here. The sheriff’s office said Laurn Storms, 35; Chris Edwin Page, 59; and Jerry Atkinson Jr., 48, were arrested as part of a joint operation by Columbus and Bladen agents.  All three were charged with...

An arrest has been made in a shooting where one man was wounded and a juvenile almost hit by gunfire in Whiteville.  Christopher Jerome Taylor, 43, was arrested by Whiteville Police July 19 for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, according to warrants. His bond was set at $52,500. Arrest records show his address as 402 W. Lewis St., Whiteville. Taylor allegedly...

A joint operation between Whiteville Police, the sheriff’s office, and the State Bureau of Investigation jailed two alleged drug traffickers and pulled a quantity of narcotics off the street. Marion Lamont Flowers, 42, of 215 S. Railroad St., Chadbourn, and Courney Williams, 35, of 2394 Georgia Pacific Rd., were arrested Tuesday “without incident,” according to a press release from Whiteville Police. Williams was charged with a single count...