Public Safety

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit made the following arrests last week. The suspects and their charges, which are taken directly from arrest reports and citations, are:

•Bennie Lee James III, 30, of 7743 Jermonts Way, Leland; charged with possession of ounce or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

•Anthony Devon Jamison, 17, of 12 Stoney Road, Castle Hayne; charged with possession of ounce or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The N.C. Attorney General’s Office has issued 11 more subpoenas against gas stations in North Carolina accused of violating the state’s price gouging laws.

No subpoenas have yet been issued for Brunswick County.

The office has received more than 4,400 reports of price gouging incidents throughout the state since Sept. 12, a department spokesperson said Tuesday.

A Leland teen is facing multiple charges, including stealing and wrecking two cars, one of which was a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle.

Seventeen-year-old Dustin Matthew Jordan, of 1350 Colon Mintz Road, has been charged with felony larceny of a motor vehicle, felony hit and run, failure to stop, no operator’s license, reckless driving to endanger, failure to report and accident, driving while impaired, drive after consuming being less than 21 years old and two counts of felony serious injury by a vehicle.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit made the following arrests. The suspects and their charges, which are taken directly from arrest reports, are:

•Mitchell Cliff Fowler, 41, of 1230 Skeeter Hawk Drive, Leland; charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a dwelling to keep a controlled substance.