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

From March 2-8, deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Enforcement Team answered 24 calls and issued 18 uniformed citations.

K-9 deputies patrolled and set up driver’s license checkpoints in the following areas: N.C. 211 and Big Macedonia Road, Northwest Road, Sunset Harbor Road and Ocean Isle Beach and Lakewood roads.

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 and driver’s license 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.

Shallotte police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week.

•Police charged Gabriel Lopez, 23, of 304 Carolina Shores Ave., Calabash, with driving while impaired, no operator’s license and driving left of center. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center and placed on a $500 secured bond.

•Police charged Frank Wesley Salmon, 22, of 143 Cheers St., Shallotte, with violation of a court order. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.

LELAND—A teenager and a juvenile have been charged in connection with an early-morning fire at a group home. No injuries were reported.

According to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Detective Tina Edwards, 16-year-old Tonyal Locklear Jr., of Red Springs, and a male juvenile set fire to the dayroom at the Strategic Behavioral Center in Leland.

Locklear and the juvenile suspect were residents at the behavioral center. Locklear was charged with first-degree arson, and a juvenile petition was taken out on the male.