Brothers Charged After
Scuffle With Officers
A crowd of 75 to 100 people
gathered outside a Leland bar early
Saturday as a scuffle developed be
tween Brunswick County sheriff's
deputies responding to a distur
bance call and two men.
The men, who are brothers, claim
they were beaten by the four offi
cers, but some witnesses tell a dif
ferent story.
According to warrants filed at the
Brunswick County Clerk of Court's
office, Mickey Dean Jones, 21, of
Hampstcad, and Kevin Jones, 17, of
Leland, were charged in the scuffle.
Mickey Jones was charged with
assault on a police officer, injury to
personal property, resisting arrest,
two counts of communicating threats
and two counts ofassault. He was re
leased from the Brunswick County
Jail Saturday after posting 51,500
bond.
Kevin Jones was charged with
three counts of assault on an officer,
injury to personal property and one
count each of resisting arrest and
drunk and disruptive behavior. He
was also released Saturday after
posting SI 3,000 bond.
The warrants were filed by Bruns
wick County Sheriff's Detective
Ken Mcsscr, who was one of four
officers who responded to the call at
the Halftimc Sports Bar and Deli in
the Claimiont Plaza shopping ccntcr
in Leland.
When Deputy Richard Duval of
Leland heard that an officer needed
help, he put on his uniform and re
sponded.
Duval sustained a cut on his head
that required five stitches, said
Patsy Duval, his wife, who also wit
nessed the incident.
"If the whole crowd had left like
they were told to do, it wouldn't
have happened," said Ms. Duval.
"Someone in the crowd shouted for
someone 10 go and get a gun. I was
scared to death standing there
watching what was going on."
Officers attempted to place Kevin
Jones under arrest and tried to put
him in the front scat of a sheriff's
car. Ms. Duval said she saw officers
hit the suspect across the legs after
he refused to put his feet inside the
car.
"I heard them at least four times
tell him to put his feet in the car,"
she said.
Once the door was shut, Kevin
Jones kickcd it back open and also
kicked out the front windshield of
the patrol car, Ms. Duval said.
"it was there laying on the hood
of the car," she said.
Mickey Jones told reporters with
a local daily newspaper that he was
hit on the head repeatedly by offi
cers during the arrest. A tooth was
chipped and his face received as
phalt burns, Jones asserted.
A flashlight was used to strike
Mickey Jones once in the head dur
ing a struggle, Del. Messer report
ed. Officers had decided to arrest
him for hindering and delaying an
arrest and drunk and disruptive be
havior, he said.
While Messer was pulling the
flashlight away, he accidentally hit a
fellow officer, Duval, on the head.
"He was hit one time and one
time only," Ms. Duval said of Mick
ey Jones. "He was hurt. Nobody is
saying that he wasn't hurt. Bystand
ers began giving the boy first aid.
Nobody neglected him when he got
hurt, but nobody abused the boy ei
ther."
Ms. Duval said officers kept
telling the crowd to disperse and to
go home. Many had been drinking
and were shouting encouragement
to the men being placed under ar
rest, she said.
Leland Asks County
To Share Sewer Plant
BY TERRY POPE
Brunswick County is being asked
to share its sewer treatment plant that
serves the Leland Industrial Park.
Lcland officials want to buy part
of the capacity of the plant to ser
vice homes and businesses within
the town.
The proposal was presented to
county commissioners recently, who
in turn asked Leland Mayor Russell
Baldwin to approach the Brunswick
County Resources Development
Commission Advisory Board with
the idea.
Baldwin told the RDC board last
week that the town is not asking the
county for a handout.
Leland wants to purchase 250,000
gallons a day of the plant's overall
wastewater treatment capacity rather
than build a separate treatment facili
ty of its own. It proposes paying for
that capacity in two SI 50,000 install
ments, the equivalent of about SI for
each 1 ,000 gallons of capacity.
"We are fully prepared to pay our
way," Baldwin said. "We are asking
only for the opportunity to buy ca
pacity."
RDC board members listened to,
but look no action, on the request.
Baldwin said a more attractive
Leland will help the RDC recruit
new industry to the industrial park.
Leland has applied to the Farmers
Home Administration for a combi
nation grant and loan totaling S5
million. The funds would be used to
buy a portion of the park plant's
treatment capacity and to construct
a sewer collection system to trans
port sewerage to the plant.
The town is now in the midst of a
comprehensive land use study.
"Without adequate sewage treat
ment facilities, we cannot become
the vibrant town that you need to
help you attract the best prospects to
the industrial park," Baldwin said.
A privately-owned package plant
now serves two shopping centers
within the town limits. Belville is
planning a joint sewer project with
local developers, a plant with a ca
pacity which has already been fully
committed, Baldwin said.
The present application with
FmHA is based on using the county's
plant to treat the town's wastewater.
If the town wishes to build its own
plant, it would have to reapply for a
loan, which could cause a three- or
four-year delay, Baldwin said.
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said he knew Lei and was talking
about the need for sewer but had not
seen the town's proposal to buy a
portion of the industrial park sewer
plant's treatment capacity.
If Leland uses the county's plant,
it doesn't have to file for a wastew
ater discharge permit from the state.
The industrial park now uses a
small fraction of the county plant's
capacity, Baldwin said.
The county has a permit to dis
charge into the Cape Fear River.
"By the time the county would
need the capacity sold to Leland,"
Baldwin said, "it should be possible
to replace it with a new treatment
plant."
Board member Leslie Myrie said
he was concerned about the propos
al because the county could not be
guaranteed of receiving another per
mit from the state to discharge into
the river, if the county did later need
to build an additional plant.
"It's obvious the need in Leland
is urgent," said Baxter Stirling,
RDC chairman.
Stirling said Leland isn't the only
Brunswick County town that needs
a sewer system.
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