Public Safety

DEVELOPING STORY: Whiteville Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are on the scene of a reported homicide. The victim was female. Police were called to a physical therapy facility at 711  North Thompson Street after someone called 911 around 5:30 a.m. An ambulance was on scene at 5:45 a.m., according to a witness. “Police discovered a woman inside the building who was transported to a local medical...

The driver of a pickup sustained a scratch when the rear window of his truck was shot early Sunday. Vincent Drayton called the sheriff’s office after he said he was driving on Woodyard Road near the railroad crossing around 3:39 a.m. when someone apparently fired a shot at his vehicle. The glass was damaged and Drayton sustained a minor injury that he described as a scratch, the report...

A homeless man was cut on the toe and robbed of $3.58 after an early morning fight with another panhandler in Whiteville March 4. Bruce Pollard, 24, told Whiteville Police he was panhandling near the Hardee’s at Washington and J.K. Powell around 4 a.m. when a second man approached him asking for money. Pollard, who is homeless, reported that he gave the second man 50 cents, and a...