Public Safety

The Ocean Isle Beach Police Department investigated the following incidents from Jan. 19-30. All information is taken directly from police incident reports.

•Breaking and entering, larceny and property damage on Isle Plaza; suspect removed a chop saw and power washer from storage room.

•Breaking and entering and larceny on West First Street; suspect entered house and took four flat-screen TVs and a Blu-ray player.

•Breaking and entering and property damage on West Second Street; suspect damaged door and window with a pry tool.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit charged the following suspects last week:

•Maria C. Cacciabaudo, 43, of 405 Navassa Court, Little River, S.C., was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit arrested the following suspects:

•Lisa Barfield Kotecki, 47, of 1472-2 Copas Road, Shallotte, was arrested Jan. 4 and charged with conspiracy to deliver a schedule II controlled substance, sell a schedule II controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture a schedule II controlled substance, trafficking in opium or heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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.