Public Safety

Shallotte police investigated a rash of breaking and entering and larceny from vehicles last week. The investigation is ongoing.

All information is taken directly from police reports.

•Nine reports of breaking and entering and larceny of money on Owendon Drive; suspect broke into victims’ vehicles and stole $5 in cash from each vehicle.

•Two reports of breaking and entering and larceny of money on Brierwood Road; suspect broke into victims’ vehicles and stole $5 in cash from each vehicle.

It’s been almost 23 years since Gloria Rehrig has heard her the sound of her son’s voice. It is a sound she longs for daily.

“I still miss my son very much; he was my baby,” she said this week.

In December 1985, Gloria Rehrig received the call any parent would dread—her son, Alan Rehrig, was found shot to death in his car.

While the murder weapon was never recovered, Gloria Rehrig said investigators determined the path of the bullet would have been fired from the passenger seat.

The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office recently launched its newest law enforcement initiative, the K-9 enforcement team.

The team, comprised of five K-9 officers and their dogs, is similar to the sheriff’s office community policing program, which targets areas with high crime and drug activity, but the K-9 enforcement team is its own patrol division.

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

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, are:

•Matthew Deante Hewett, 24, of 1803 Turkey Trap Road, Supply; charged with felony possession of cocaine, possession of ounce or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Hewett was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center where he was placed on a $7,000 secured bond.