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The body of a missing woman was found off Klondyke Road Wednesday. Jacqueline Elaine “Lynn” Landreth, 37, was reported missing from her Rosindale Road, Clarkton hom on Feb. 8, according to a joint statement from the Columbus and Bladen sheriff’s offices. She was last seen driving a Chevrolet Sierra extended cab truck. Investigators from both counties were directed to the area by information received in the missing person’s...
A Wildlife officer investigating a stolen game camera helped deputies make a drug bust at Tabor Correctional Monday. The sheriff’s office reported that the Wildlife Officer asked for the assistance of a tracking dog after Jasper Locklear allegedly tried to toss a packet of drugs over the fence at TCI. Locklear was also suspected of taking a camera that belonged to the WRC. K9 Gunny of the Sheriff’s...
The suspect jailed for the Nov. 29 ambush killing of a Hope Mills man had “several” firearms, ammunition and narcotics in his Chadbourn home, the sheriff’s office said. Christopher Jermaine Reaves, 22, of 402 E. Institute St., Chadbourn, is being held under no bond on charges of murder, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver cocaine and marijuana, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill,...