Public Safety

Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the following incidents last week, which are taken directly from sheriff’s office incident reports:

•Larceny on Mount Misery Road in Leland; suspect stole victim’s registration tag.

•Breaking and entering and trespassing on Koolabrew Drive in Calabash; suspect pulled back chain link fence and entered victim’s property.

•Trespassing and property damage on Valley Drive in Calabash; suspect damaged gate and entered victim’s pool.

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.

Shallotte police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week. All information is taken directly from police reports.

•Ester Virginia Todd, 24, of 2276 Shell Point Road, was charged with assault on a handicapped person. Someone called the police department to let them know a woman in the Walmart parking lot had a warrant for her arrest. The responding officer found Todd was wanted on an outstanding warrant for assault on a handicapped person.

•Assault on a female on Brooks Court; suspect struck victim in the face.

A California man drowned off the coast of Holden Beach last Friday, June 25.

According to Holden Beach Police Chief Wally Layne, Raymond Joseph Dracker, 55, of San Rafael, Calif., drowned Friday morning when his kayak was overtaken by waves in the Lockwood Folly Inlet off the east end of Holden Beach.

“His family member lost contact with him and subsequently located an empty kayak,” Layne said.

Layne said Dracker’s family then called 911.