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Crime Report
FRom sTAFF RepoRTs
n Thefts
LUMBERTON —
Patricia Russell, of
Lamb Road, reported on
Wednesday that someone
used her bank account information
to make $920 in
unauthorized transactions
on her account, according
to a police report.
LUMBERTON —
Deborah Russ, of North
Myrtle Beach, S.C., reported
on Wednesday that
someone used her bank
account information to
make about $327 in unauthorized
transactions on
her account, according to
a police report.
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LUMBERTON —
Rother Jacobs, of the old
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Department of Social
Services building at
435 Caton Road, reported
on Wednesday that
someone broke a glass
entrance door to the
building, damaged two
wooden doors inside the
building and damaged a
lock on another door,
according to a police
report.
Jacobs reported about
$900 total in damages.
LUMBERTON —
Ramiro Silva, of A.D.
Toler Electric Company
in Elizabethtown,
reported on Wednesday
that someone broke
into his work truck and
took a $150 power drill,
according to a police
report.
Silva reported about
$350 damage to a window
in the truck.
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PEMBROKE — A benefit
car wash for 16-year-old
Triston Lowery, who has
a tumor on his brain and
back, will be held from 9
a.m. to noon on Saturday at
Burger King in Pembroke.
There is no charge, but
donations are accepted.
The proceeds will help his
family with his medical
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GOP lawmaker named probation chief
Perdue calls appointment proof of bipartisanship
RALEIGH (AP) — A
Republican state legislator
who shepherded a wideranging
criminal justice
reform package through
the General Assembly
this year will now head
North Carolina’s probation
system, Democratic
Gov. Beverly Perdue said
Thursday.
Rep. David Guice, R-Transylvania,
will become chief of what’s now the
Division of Community Corrections
when the new Department of Public
Safety is formed Jan. 1.
Guice, a former chief probation
and parole officer and parole services
manager in western North
Carolina, was elected to the
Legislature in 2008. He became a
budget subcommittee co-chairman
for criminal justice programs when
Republicans gained a majority in
the chamber this year.
RALEIGH (AP) — A bridge that
would rise above the Pamlico Sound
and bypass two breaches on N.C.
12 on Hatteras Island caused by
Hurricane Irene is among those now
being considered as a long-term solution
for access to the coastal highway.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service representatives
proposed a bridge that
would start north of a breach on Pea
Island and reconnect with land at
Rodanthe, the northernmost of the
seven villages on Hatteras Island and
the site of the second breach, the state
Transportation Department said in a
news release Thursday.
The proposal came at a meeting
of various state and federal agencies
involved in finding a more permanent
way to repair the road. Early
estimates show the bridge would be
5 to 7 miles long, but it’s early in the
process to be definitive, DOT spokes-
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Guice’s hiring “reflects my continued
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Bridge considered as permanent bypass
“By focusing our efforts on
the most realistic options,
we can more efficiently
develop long-term fixes for
N.C. 12.”
— Tim Trogdon,
DOT’s chief operating officer
woman Greer Beaty said.
DOT is searching for long-term
solutions to breaches on the highway,
which is the only link from the
island farther north to the mainland.
Hurricane Irene, which struck in late
August, chewed through the island,
which was closed for weeks because
of the broken road.
A temporary bridge was built
over Pea Island breach, and the road
reopened in October.
Trial of accused student
slayer nears last stages
HILLSBOROUGH,
(AP) — The trial of a man
accused of murdering a
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill student body
president approached its last
stages Thursday as prosecutors
called their final
witness and the
judge scheduled closing
arguments.
Laurence Lovette
is charged with firstdegree
murder in the
death of Eve Carson,
an Athens, Ga. native
who was found shot Lovette
to death about a mile
from her home in Chapel
Hill in March 2008.
After calling dozens of
witnesses over seven days,
prosecutors rested on
Thursday. Lovette’s lawyers
called no witnesses of their
own, so Orange County
Superior Court Judge Allen
Baddour scheduled closing
am willing to reach across
party lines to work together,”
she said.
Guice, 56, will succeed
Tim Moose, who
is being promoted to an
administrative post in the
new Division of Adult
Corrections, which will
include the state prison
system and community corrections.
The new department consolidates
the current departments
of correction; crime control and
public safety; and juvenile justice
and delinquency prevention.
The community corrections division
manages probation, electronic
house arrest and community service
programs for offenders who
leave prison or don’t receive an
active sentence.
It also oversees offender substance
abuse programs and victims’
services.
The agencies rejected beach
renourishment as a permanent repair
at either breach, leaving individual
bridges as the only other options
being considered. The only other
option for the Pea Island breach is
a bridge where the road now stands.
For the Rodanthe breach, the agencies
agreed that DOT should either
build a bridge within the easement
or build one that extends into the
Pamlico Sound.
“There are laws and regulations
associated with some of the options
that we are not likely to be able
to meet,” Jim Trogdon, DOT’s chief
operating officer, said in the release.
“By focusing our efforts on the most
realistic options, we can more efficiently
develop long-term fixes for
N.C. 12 that will provide a reliable
way for people to get to jobs and
education.”
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arguments to begin Monday.
Investigators say Lovette,
along with DeMario
Atwater, abducted Carson
from her home and forced
her to withdraw $1,400 from
automated teller machines
in Chapel Hill and
Durham before
shooting her five
times and dumping
her body in the
street.
Lovette has pleaded
not guilty. Last
year, Atwater pleaded
guilty in the case
and was sentenced
to life in prison. Carson’s killing
was a major trauma for
the historic college town. It
also put a spotlight on problems
within North Carolina’s
probation and parole system.
Atwater was never placed
under intensive probation
despite two court orders to
do so.
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