Public Safety

The man charged with a February 2020 murder is back in jail after a drug arrest Saturday. Jadekiss Jaheim Watkins, 20, was arrested on Elwell Ferry Road in Council after a vehicle stop by members of the Tri-County Community Impact Task Force, according to Mac Warner of the Bladen Sheriff’s Office. Watkins and Kaitlin Mitchell, 19, were carrying what officials described as a “substantial” amount of narcotics, cash...

Town leaders discuss violence in Chadbourn Interim Town Manager Jerome Chestnut called on the citizens of Chadbourn to help fight the crime that has surged in the town in recent months.  “We should be out in droves. We should be marching. We should be protesting,” Chestnut said at a press conference today (Wednesday) on the town hall steps. The town’s first triple homicide occurred Saturday morning at a large...

Three people were charged with trafficking in cocaine after more than a kilo of cocaine was seized in a traffic stop Friday. Lourdes Dixon, 56; Alexander Shellman, 60, and Hugo Nunez-Jaimes, 43, were arrested July 2 by the sheriff’s office. All three were charged with trafficking cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and maintaining a place for controlled substance, according to jail reports. Dixon’s bond was set at $200,500,...