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The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county.

The ACE team conducts driving while impaired, driver’s license and criminal information checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances. The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed on New Year’s Eve near Shallotte.

According to N.C. State Highway Patrol 1st Sgt. A. E. Morris, around 6 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 31, Julius Drake Lewis, 53, of Shell Landing Road, Supply, was killed after he was hit by a vehicle driven by Steven Paul Stepka, of Shallotte, near the intersection of Gray Bridge and Tar Landing roads.

No charges have been field, Morris said. Morris said alcohol did not appear to be a contributing factor for the driver.

Other wreck

The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver’s license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.

From Dec. 29 through Jan. 4, deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Enforcement Team answered 40 calls, issued 24 uniformed citations and made nine drug arrests.

Leland police officers investigated the following incidents and issued the following charges last week. All information is taken directly from patrol activity reports.

•Communicating threats on Woodford Drive; suspect called victim and threatened him and his wife.

•Larceny on New Pointe Boulevard; suspect stole $130 from victim’s purse.

•Larceny on Old Forest Drive; suspect stole his son’s dog box from the bed of his truck while it was in his yard.