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Corrections Officers stopped a woman form smuggling opiates into Columbus Correctional Wednesday. Pamela Miller Blackwell, 57, of 442 Pine Acres Dr., Chadbourn, is being held under $100,000 secured bond. She is charged with three counts of trafficking opiates, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver opiates, possession of drugs in a prison, providing contraband to an inmate, and exposing a child to controlled substances, according to warrants...
A runaway turkey has a new home after being taken into custody by Bladenboro Police. BPD said in a social media post that a citizen called after seeing the turkey escape from a poultry carrier in the city limits. The bird was injured in the area of Elizabethtown Road and Seaboard Street. “Rather than leaving the turkey to fend for itself, our officer took the time to provide...
A boy called 911 after the woman he was riding with passed out behind the wheel Aug. 7, and the Virginia woman now faces charges of DWI. child abuse, marijuana and possession of a stolen gun. Natoya Cherrelle Hairston, 37, of Spencer, Va., was arrested on N.C. 130, according to the sheriff’s office. She was charged with driving while impaired, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of marijuana...