Public Safety

SUNSET BEACH—Police investigated a larceny of five rings from a house on Wyndfall Drive.

Reported stolen Sept. 18 were a 14-karat gold wedding ring set, a 14-karat two-tone diamond band wrap, a platinum wedding band with diamonds around one side, a white-gold set with cubic zirconia ring, and a man’s Masonic ring.

On Sept. 19, Sunset Beach police arrested Carolyn J. Neriani, 29, of 908 Resort Circle, Sunset Beach, for DWI.

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.

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

From Sept. 13-19 K-9 deputies answered 16 calls, wrote 16 citations and made seven drug arrests. K-9 deputies set up checkpoints at Grey Bridge Road and Village Road.

The following suspects were charged:

•Richard Gerald House Jr., 38, of 203 Hepworth Way, Wilmington, was charged with possession of one-half ounce or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office have arrested an Ash man for larceny and fleeing from officers.

According to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt. April Stanley, sheriff’s deputies arrested Shannon Lee Fowler Thursday evening near his home on J.B. Lane in Ash.

When a warrant officer first tried to contact Fowler in his home around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, Fowler fled his home and ran into the wooded area at the intersection of Myrtle Head Road and Exum Road in Ash, Stanley said.