Public Safety

Someone used 2x4s to rob a man of $140 in cash at Tommy’s Mini Mart in Leland on April 14.

A Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office incident report, which labels the case as an aggravated assault and robbery, shows it happened after 6 p.m. at the store, 3280 Mount Misery Road.

The victim, a 59-year-old man, was not taken to a medical center for treatment, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Emily Flax said.

No description of the robber was available.

A Shallotte man wanted in a Sunset Beach break-in was arrested April 13 in Little River, S.C.

Sunset Beach police charged 24-year-old Antaun Linear Miller, 24, of Forest Drive with breaking and entering, larceny, safecracking and injury to real property in an April 12 break-in on Cotton Mill Court in Sea Trail.

Someone broke in through a back window and stole several items around lunchtime when no one was home, according to an incident report. Some evidence was left behind and arrest warrants were issued the next day.

Leland police are looking for a man who stole almost $900 from a wallet belonging to a fellow Wal-Mart shopper.

The thief took the money about 8:15 p.m. April 2 and left the store on New Pointe Boulevard in a black sedan, according to a police news release issued Thursday.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Jonathan Kazee at 371-0274.

A Shallotte woman is accused of stealing another woman’s money after two break-ins last moth.

Melissa Ann Suggs, 29, of High Meadows Drive was arrested April 2 and charged with breaking or entering, larceny after breaking or entering, breaking or entering a motor vehicle, financial card theft and financial card fraud.

Warrants show Suggs on March 11 broke into a Shallotte woman’s home and stole a coin jar containing $500 and broke into the woman’s car and stole a debit card, using it to get an undetermined amount of cash later that day.