Public Safety

Shallotte Police have added additional charges to suspects charged in connection with a South Carolina prescription fraud ring.

Shallotte Police Detective Ed Marti said Shallotte police have added additional felony charges to three suspects arrested last month as part of a prescription pill diversion investigation.

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

From Nov. 8-14, K-9 deputies answered 14 calls, wrote six citations and made six drug arrests. Deputies patrolled the following communities: Rivermist, Dutchman Acres, Southport and Carolina Shores.

K-9 deputies charged the following suspects:

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.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant at 3327 Stone Chimney Road in Supply last week, which led to the seizure of prescription medication as well as drug paraphernalia.

According to sheriff’s office spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley, two suspects were arrested in connection with the Stone Chimney Road search warrant. Drug agents seized Suboxone, a controlled prescription medication, as well as numerous items of drug paraphernalia from the home.