Public Safety

A joint effort by the sheriff’s office, Whiteville Police and the Borderbelt Drug Task Force netted the arrest of an alleged drug dealer near a school Thursday. Christopher Jerome Taylor, 49 of 402 W. Lewis St., Whiteville, was charged with felony possession of opiates, cocaine and marijuana with the intent to manufacture, sell and deliver; three counts of manufacture, sale and delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000...

One horse is dead and another is being treated after a case of alleged animal cruelty near Chadbourn. The sheriff’s office said that the two equines were off Wagon Wheel Drive. Deputies were called to the scene Thursday and discovered a dead horse and another that was malnourished. The animals had apparently been without food or water for an extended time, according to the report. The investigation is...