Skip the line, pay some court costs online
North Carolina courts are continuing to drive down traffic in the courthouse by allowing more fees to be paid online.Court costs, fines and fees for most criminal and infraction cases can now be paid...
View ArticleAs Crime Stoppers tips increase, so do arrests
Onslow County residents are fed up with the drug problem in the community, and they’re showing it through the rising number of tips coming in to Crime Stoppers.At the monthly meeting Thursday the board...
View ArticleMartial arts instructor accused of assault
A martial arts instructor has been accused of assaulting a 28-year-old man and holding him down while a woman allegedly hit him, according to warrants.Allen Steven Bose, 30, of Jessica Court in...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to barbershop assault
A man has pleaded guilty in a 2013 assault at an area barbershop, according to the District Attorney’s office.Steven Reese, 25, of Mill Pond Road in Jacksonville, pleaded guilty to assault with a...
View ArticleMan accused of driving 90 mph while eluding arrest
Dontes Steven Smallwood, 24, of Greenville Boulevard was arrested by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office Friday and charged with felony fleeing or eluding arrest; speeding; reckless driving likely to...
View ArticleFormer Marine extradited to Onslow scheduled for first appearance
Tyler Prudden, who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2013 shooting death of Lance Cpl. Lanija Antionne Gilpatrick, arrived in Onslow County from Michigan around 6 a.m. Sunday.
View ArticleWoman accused of stabbing man who tried to break up fight
Gloria Jean Rivera, 46, of Diane Drive in Jacksonville, was arrested by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office Sunday and charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury for allegedly...
View ArticleTwo arrested after more than 200 doses of heroin found
Michael Jacob Rochelle, 24, of Riverside Drive in Sneads Ferry and Charlie Kristina Garten, 27, of North Topsail Beach were arrested by Onslow County Sheriff’s Office narcotic detectives on Friday at...
View ArticleJury selection begins for man accused of extortion
The ruse was discovered after a Marine reported being blackmailed for nearly $10,000 to the Onslow County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 1 of last year
View ArticleExtortion trial begins
The trial for a man accused of extortion began late Tuesday afternoon in Onslow County Superior Court.Eburt Fish is on trial for charges of extortion and obtaining property by false pretenses for...
View ArticleMan accused of breaking police officer's nose
A man is accused of breaking a Jacksonville Police Department officer’s nose while the officer was attempting to serve warrants.Maurice A. Gonzalves, 27, of West Frances Street in Jacksonville was...
View ArticleBrothers accused of dealing heroin
The brother of a man recently arrested on heroin distribution charges has also been accused of selling heroin.Gregory Grappo, 36, of Hickory Lane in Sneads Ferry, was arrested by the Onslow County...
View ArticleCourt: Pender County cemetery hasn't been abandoned
Family, property owners have been locked in litigation for more than a decade
View ArticleMother's conviction in daughter's death overturned
A Jacksonville woman’s conviction in connection with her 19-month-old daughter’s drowning death was overturned this week after a judge ruled, in part, that the death of another child in the woman’s...
View ArticleRichlands man accused of shooting another in the back
A Richlands man has been accused of shooting a man in the back.Justin James Brady, 18, of Greenwood Road was arrested by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday and charged with assault with a...
View ArticleMan accused of kidnapping, threatening to kill woman
A Jacksonville man has been accused of kidnapping and assaulting a 27-year-old woman.James Arnold Cox Jr., 23, of Birchwood Court was arrested by the Jacksonville Police Department and charged with...
View ArticleQuestions linger after Gum Branch Road double homicide
No manners of death are listed in medical examiner’s reports for two homicides that rattled Jacksonville’s new year after a boy and a man were slain a half-mile apart on Gum Branch Road.Both residents...
View ArticleFour accused of burglary, drug charges
Three residents of Choke Cherry South in Richlands have been accused of harboring a wanted Jacksonville man and information given to the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office lead to his arrest, and that of...
View ArticleMore information released on Grappo arrest
Additional information has been released about the investigation of a man arrested earlier this week on accusations of heroin distribution.Gregory Grappo, 36, of Hickory Lane in Sneads Ferry, was...
View ArticleExtortion trial continues to Monday
The trial for a Jacksonville man accused of extorting a Marine out of more than $9,000 continues on Monday.The state rested its case against Eburt Charles Fish at 3:50 p.m. Thursday after its final...
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