Public Safety

Victim was Thomas Academy Honor Student.Some information courtesy Johnson City (Tenn.) Press The woman allegedly strangled by a Whiteville man was a former resident of the Lake Waccamaw Boys and Girls Home and honor student at Thomas Academy.Gianna (“Gia”) Rose Delgado is alleged to have been killed by Michael Louis Cadogan of Whiteville. Cadogan is in a Tennessee jail charged with abuse of a corpse, according to police...

Tabor City Police received a call Monday from concerned funeral home personnel reporting the finding of a gun safe at a cemetery. The safe was reportedly found pushed down into the water at Forest Lawn Cemetery, where it was then concealed by a tarp and covered over by foliage, TCPD Police Chief Donald Dowless said.   A 14 by 14 inch hole had been cut into the side of...

BREAKING NEWS 8:45 p.m. update. Deputies arrested the suspected First Bank robber at his home Tuesday evening. Arthur Reid Jennings, 24, was taken into custody at the Green Sea Road home. Green Sea is Third Street in town. A firearm used in the crime as well as some cash was recovered. No injuries were reported. 11 a.m. Tabor City Police are searching for a single suspect after the...