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An extension cord led to a coffee pot, a bag of marijuana and trouble for a Haynes Lennon Road man Sunday Christopher Lawrence Jones, 54, was arrested for possession of marijuana and utility theft, according to jail reports. Jones gave his address on court documents as 3728 Haynes Lennon Rd., Chadbourn. The sheriff’s office reported that Joe Cox, the owner of the property on Haynes Lennon Road, called the...
UPDATED with additional information. A county maintenance worker has been charged with 14 counts each of larceny by employee and obtaining property by false pretense after he allegedly used a county gas card to buy fuel. Messiah Maurice Brown, 20, of 108 Townhouse Dr., Whiteville, was arrested Dec. 9 on warrants drawn by Det. D. Graham of the sheriff’s office. Warrants show Brown used a county fleet fuel...
Citing the ongoing rise in the spread of COVID-19, State Chief Justice Cheri Beasley announced today that all in-person court hearings are postponed for 30 days.The announcement came Friday afternoon as the state reported more than 7,500 new cases of COVID-19 across the state today, quickly outdistancing the 6,000-plus cases reported per day earlier in the week.Beasley noted that most courthouses enter a slow period from mid-December through...