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Public Safety

  • Calls up at newly built Calabash fire station

    CALABASH — Just in the nick of time, the Calabash Fire Department has a new, larger station to accommodate a matching increase in calls.

    Department spokeswoman Honey Shore said the figures as of Monday, March 31, speak for themselves.

    From November 2012 to March 2013, the department had 619 calls. From November 2013 to March 30 of this year, it had 742 calls — an increase of nearly 20 percent.

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  • Sunset Beach Police Report

    Sunset Beach police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests. All information is taken directly from police reports.

     

    March 17

    Financial transaction card fraud, Food Lion, Sunset Beach.

     

    March 23

    Charles Doyd Melvin III, 34, of 288 Cable Lake Circle, Carolina Shores, charged with DWI and simple possession of marijuana.

     

    March 24

    Lance Allen Boone, 42, of 2034 Waterloo St., Ocean Isle Beach, charged with failure to appear.

     

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  • Leland Police reports

    Leland police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    March 18

    Randolph Scott Fletcher, 37, 814 Ricefield Branch Road, arrested on charges of burning personal property, injury to real property, misdemeanor child abuse and injury to personal property by destroying property inside and outside of a residence on Terrace Walk.

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  • Shallotte Police reports

    Shallotte police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    March 13

    Obtaining property by false pretense and worthless check. Someone bought items at Wicker and More on Ocean Highway with a check from a closed account.

    March 21

    Larceny and obtaining property by false pretense by someone taking items from a residence on Wildwood Street and pawning them.

    March 23

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  • Shallotte Police reports

    Shallotte police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    March 8

    Pamela Brown Hankins, 49, 121 Asheton Road, Wilmington, cited for shoplifting from Walmart.

    Joel William Prentice Jr., 31, 119 NE 77th St., Oak Island, arrested on charges of driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and open container.

    Obtaining property by false pretenses by taking items from the shelves and returning them for money.

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  • Leland Police reports

    Leland police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    March 4

    Danielle Brook Shannon, 18, 1232 Maple Tree Drive, Leland, cited and released for stolen merchandise from Walmart on New Pointe Boulevard.

    Breaking and entering and larceny by someone breaking into a residence on Oak Lane and stealing property.

    March 7

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  • Sunset Beach Police Department

    Sunset Beach police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests. All information is taken directly from police reports.

     

    March 11

    Breaking and entering, larceny of television, injury to real property reported at 434 33rd St.

     

    March 15

    Breaking and entering, larceny of televisions, injury to real property reported at 425 Fourth St.

     

    March 16

    Roger Dale King Jr., 30, of 4377 Mary St. SW, Shallotte, charged with reckless driving.

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  • Leland Police reports

    Leland police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    Feb. 28

    Melissa Renee Meyer, 34, 153 S. Navassa Road, arrested for driving while impaired, fictitious registration and an outstanding warrant from New Hanover County on a misdemeanor child abuse charge.

    Traffic crash/hit and run on Village Road after an unknown vehicle struck a parked vehicle, causing property damage.

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  • Shallotte Police reports

    Shallotte police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests in the last two weeks. All information is taken directly from police incident and arrest reports.

    Feb. 18

    Jamie Tyrone McCracken, 35, 3786 Strawberry Drive SW, cited for shoplifting items valued at $93.68 from Walmart.

    Feb. 28

    Gloria O’Brian Gonzales, 54, 5103 Angler Lane, Greensboro, arrested on a charge of shoplifting items from Walmart.

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  • Sunset Beach Police Department

    Sunset Beach police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests. All information is taken directly from police reports.

    March 3

    Larceny of concrete statue, 7610 High Market St.

    March 6

    Johnathan Blake Ferster, 21, charged on outstanding warrant from New Hanover County for obtaining property by false pretense.

    Cody Austin Kohler, 22, charged on outstanding warrant from New Hanover County on a charge of obtaining property by false pretense.

    March 8

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