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Officials hope an image from a surveillance camera will help identify an alleged thief in the Nakina area. Around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, the sheriff’s office says, the individual broke into a garage on MM Ray Road, taking a Stihl leaf blower. Surveillance cameras captured the incident. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division is asking that anyone who can identify the suspect call 640.6629.
Updated 5 p.m. Detectives and deputies raided a Queen Street home this afternoon and arrested a Tabor City man for Sunday night shooting that left a Hope Mills man dead. Mark Anthony Nelson, 23, was arrested just before 3 p.m., according to Chief Deputy Aaron Herring of the sheriff’s office. Nelson was wanted for the Sunday night ambush of George Stump of Hope Mills and his grandson Tristan...
Whiteville Police managed to prevent a suicide Wednesday at the Walmart parking lot. Major William Hinz said Officer Michael Strickland was dispatched to assist EMS on a call about a man lying in the parking lot at the shopping center. The man was inside his vehicle, with the door locked and a handgun was near his right hand, Hinz said. “When the officer saw the subject moving,” Hinz...