One of two suspects acquitted in 1987 rape and kidnapping case in Carteret...
BEAUFORT | One of two suspects in a 1987 rape and kidnapping case in Carteret County was found not guilty at trial this week and the fate of the second remains uncertain after a hung jury.A Carteret...
View ArticleJacksonville man guilty of extortion
Eburt Fish sentenced to 16 to 29 months in prison for scheme to blackmail Marine
View Article17-year-old accused of strangling woman
A 17-year-old has been accused of assaulting and strangling an 18-year-old woman, hindering her ability to speak.Jake Luis Ramirez-Volk, 17, of Tryon Court in Jacksonville, was arrested by the...
View ArticleJPD asks for help IDing suspect photographed by cell phone security
The Jacksonville Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a woman accused of stealing a cell phone, which then took a photo of her.The phone’s security features were on during the...
View ArticleRobbery under investigation
Updated at 2:39 p.m.The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in regards to a Tuesday robbery at 325 Drummer Kellum Loop Road.Lorraine Orr, 48, reported an assault and robbery...
View ArticleFour naked alleged vandals sought
The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for four naked men who allegedly damaged and defecated on the Liberty Point Apartments property earlier this month.Photos captured and posted by...
View ArticleRichlands woman fatally shot in Charlotte
Updated at 5:28 p.m.A Richlands resident was fatally shot in Charlotte this week and her friends said they’re shocked and devastated.Mary Elaine Tarr, 20, died Monday. Officers with the...
View ArticleUPDATE: More details released in fatal domestic shooting
Updated at 5:03 p.m.An argument late Wednesday night is what investigators say led to the shooting death of a stay-at-home mother.Friends describe 33-year-old Maria Faye Snook as amazing, a woman who...
View ArticleFamily remembers woman fatally shot
Funeral services have been set for a woman killed this week in Charlotte.Mary Tarr, 20, was found fatally shot Monday in Charlotte in a wrecked car. Jalen Marquise Anderson, 23, was charged Monday with...
View Article17 charged in round 1 of Operation Hour Glass
Sheriff Asa Buck, District Attorney Scott Thomas and Local Police Chiefs held a news conference this morning at the Carteret County Courthouse to discuss Operation Hourglass.Officials detailed the...
View ArticleCourt documents: Woman killed had history of domestic violence
Nine people have died this year in Onslow County at the hands of someone else, and six men have been charged with murder in connection to those deaths.Out of those, all but one person arrested knew...
View ArticleArea homicide cases
Nine people have been killed in Onslow County this year. These are the case details:• Willie George was charged with two counts of second-degree murder on Jan. 13 in connection to the Jan. 3 beating...
View ArticleUPDATE: Corpsman accused of fracturing toddler's bones
Updated at 6:31 p.m.A Navy corpsman has been accused of fracturing her 18-month-old daughter’s wrists and leg.Second Class Petty Officer Rachel Marie Craig, 25, of Remington Drive in Midway Park was...
View ArticleWoman accused of bribing teens with weed
A woman has been accused of taking two teens from Holly Ridge to Maple Hill and bribing them with marijuana to keep quiet.Aretha Mae Shepard, 48, of South Hines Street in Holly Ridge was arrested by...
View ArticleUPDATE: No arrests made in double homicide
Updated at 5:02 p.m.There was a gun by the driveway.A distraught woman stood near it. She was crying in her front yard near Richlands, telling 911 operators about two people inside the burning house...
View ArticleOverdoses responsible for at least 8 deaths in Onslow
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at what’s being done to address the heroin epidemic in the community. For more on the issue, click here.At least eight people have died in...
View ArticleMen killed identified
The two men found dead in a burning Richlands home have been publicly ID'd.They are Cody Wade Smith, 33 of Richlands, and Gregory Thomas Pearce, 43 of Jacksonville. Both died of gunshot wounds,...
View ArticleThird man pleads guilty to 2015 home invasion
Fourth person, accused of being getaway driver, also pleads guilty for her role in crime
View ArticleThree accused of assault with metal pipe
A Marine, his wife and an acquaintance have been accused of beating a man with a metal pipe. Johnny and Tyshauna Japa, both 23 and of Twinwood Drive in Jacksonville, and Sunieray Deas, 21, of West Main...
View ArticleTwo mothers who lost their sons to overdoses work to help and support others
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series looking at what’s being done to stop the heroin epidemic in the community. To read the first installment, click here.If there was a treatment...
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