Today's News

Sunset Beach police investigated the following incidents reported in the past week:

•On March 7, a resident of Old Oak Lane reported a bank check had been uttered and forged. The woman said a man had come to her home to give her a price for fixing a hot tub. She wrote him a check for $129 for parts. When the check was cashed at First Federal in South Carolina, the amount of the check had been changed to $429.

•A Garmin GPS was reported stolen March 3 from an unlocked vehicle on Medcalf Drive.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Vice Narcotics Unit are searching for Williams Anthony Daniels, who is wanted for multiple drug violations.

Daniels, 19, of 1392 Hale Swamp Road, Shallotte, is has been charged with felony possession of cocaine, simple possession of a schedule V controlled substance, possession of one-half ounce or less of marijuana, simple possession of a schedule II controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Daniels is 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds.

BOLIVIA—When Mike Matthews moved to Brunswick County from upstate New York, he was thrilled to see a state-of-the-art theater at Odell Williamson Auditorium but did not understand why Brunswick Community College students rarely use it.

After speaking with Mike Sapp, auditorium director, Matthews was encouraged to start the Brunswick Community College Performing Arts Club (BCCPAC) during the fall 2010 semester. He now serves as club president.

WINNABOW—A Winnabow man was killed Thursday evening when his bike was struck by several vehicles on U.S. 17.

North Carolina State Highway Patrol Sgt. C.K. Parks said 40-year-old Harley Becraft of Winnabow was riding his bike southbound on U.S. 17 near Winnabow Thursday evening.

Parks said Becraft was riding his bike, which was not illuminated, on the roadway in the southbound lane.

Just before 7 p.m., a vehicle traveling southbound on U.S. 17 struck Becraft.