Today's News

Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of Bald Head Island police officer Davina Buff Jones’ violent death from a single shot from her own gun while she was working an overnight shift near Old Baldy Lighthouse.

Local authorities soon determined Jones’ bullet wound to the back of her head was self-inflicted.

Her family, however, disagreed, arguing Jones was murdered, most likely at the hands of shady people involved in illegal drug dealings on the posh resort island that’s accessible only by boat.

Police on Saturday arrested a man for assaulting his brother.

Jose Basilio Arrazate Calderon, 33, of 38th Street, was arrested March 22 after his brother was hit over the head with the base of a cordless telephone and sustained an injury, Sunset Beach Deputy Chief Steve Smith said.

Calderon was charged with simple assault and carrying a concealed weapon, a 100,000-volt stun gun.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit made the following arrests last week. The suspects and their charges, which are taken directly from arrest reports, are:

•Trevor Robert Hamilton, 18, of 383 Dianna Ave. in Thomasville; charged with possession of ounces or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

•Craig Anthony Gurganious, 18, 180 Canterbury Lane in Lexington; charged with possession of ounces or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Holden Beach Police officers investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week:

•Breaking and entering on Ocean Boulevard West on March 20. Nothing was reported stolen from the residence.

•Larceny on Rothschild Street on March 21. Several power tools were reported stolen from a construction site. Police have charged Christopher Whittington, 35, of Franklinville, with two counts of breaking and entering and two counts of larceny.