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Today's News

  • Brunswick County Sheriff's Office ACE roundup

    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, driver’s license and criminal information 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.

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  • Brunswick County Sheriff's Office crime report

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

    •Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle on Pembroke Street in Ocean Isle Beach; suspect took victim’s vehicle from front yard.

    •Breaking and entering to a motor vehicle, larceny and property damage on River Road in Calabash; suspect broke victim’s passenger window and stole a purse, money, a wallet and a fleece jacket.

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  • Citizen assists Oak Island Police in burglary arrest

    Early on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 8, an Oak Island resident called the police department to report breaking and entering incidents at two beachfront homes.

    Officers and detectives responded to the scene, filed reports and collected evidence, according to Kyle Thomas, public information officer for the town of Oak Island.

    Later the same day, a citizen was at one of the homes making repairs when he noticed a suspicious male in the area and called the police department.

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  • Brunswick County Sheriff's Office K-9 Roundup

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

    From Jan. 5-11, deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Enforcement Team answered 31 calls, issued 22 uniformed citations and made 12 drug arrests.

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  • SHALLOTTE CRIME REPORT

    Shallotte Police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week:

    •Police charged Johnna J. Do, 46, of 3455 Whiteville Road, with driving while impaired, possession of open container and speeding Jan. 4 on Old Shallotte Road. She was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.

    •Police charged Daniel Everett Cochran, 24, of 316 Orchard Lane, Bolivia, with driving while impaired and no operator’s license on Whiteville Road. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.

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  • The Windy City has nothing on the wind here in Coastal Carolinas

    There are things I am just not good at keeping.

    In the past year and a half, I have gone through eight cell phones. Don’t ask me how; let’s just say that the extra $3.99 a month for the insurance is well worth it.

    I have to buy a new Chapstick at least once every two weeks. For some reason, my dog has an internal Chapstick detector and can fish it out of my purse, even when it’s zipped in an inside pocket.

    But most recently, I have had a battle with any and every umbrella that has come my way.

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  • Leland crime report

    Leland police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week, which are taken directly from patrol activity reports.

    •Larceny by employee on Village Road; suspect stole a cash donation box from a store.

    •During a routine traffic stop on U.S. 17 South and Olde Waterford Way, Bobby Eugene Long, 24, of 170 Midway Road, Whiteville, was cited and released for expired registration, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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  • Lack of interest in television drives writer to finally dive back into books

    As a newspaper person with more than 10 years of writing under my belt—and a lifetime of passion for writing before that—it would be easy to assume I’m quite a reader. Toss in the fact my mother was rarely spotted anywhere without a book in hand, and it would be simple to peg me as a bookworm.

    But somehow, unlike other writers I know, the bug to read, the obsession to peruse everything literary, somehow escaped me. I’ll blame it partly on rebellion—mom always had a book in tow, so I never wanted one.

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  • Edge-Lowrance

    Amy Elizabeth Edge and Kenny Lowrance were married Nov. 29 at the Rourk Woods Clubhouse in Shallotte.

    Jean and Fran Pelletier officiated the ceremony.

    The bride is the daughter of Tom Edge and Pat Conrad. The groom is the son of Ken Lowrance of Huntersville and the late Janice Lowrance.

    The bride was given in marriage and escorted by her father.

    Melanie Grammen served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Jenny Byrd, Katie Lowrance, Elizabeth Lowrance and Shannon Helms.

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  • Brown-Parker

    Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Mary Stephanie Brown of Wilmington and Albert Hemingway Parker III of Ocean Isle Beach. The bride is the daughter of Steve and Joanna Brown of Supply and the granddaughter of Frances Brown of Supply, the late Stanton Brown, Mary Simmons of Supply and the late Rudy Simmons. The groom is the son of Al and Ramona Parker of Supply and the grandson of Albert and Kathleen Parker of Supply, Mae Milligan of Ash and the late Bob Milligan.

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