Grand Jury Indicts
Two Shallouc men who fled the
area after a fatal shooting in Ash last
month have been extradited to
Brunswick County from Louisiana
and were indicted by a grand jury
Monday.
David Dwain Gillcy, 24, of Route
7 was indicted on a charge of mur
der in the Feb. 30 slaying of Juan
Perfccto Hernandez of Tabor City.
Leonard Wayne Faircloth, 39, of
Route 3 was indicted on a charge of
being an accessory after the fact to
the felony of murder.
Police say Gillcy shot Hernandez
once in the chest with a .380-caliber
pistol at a roadside tavern in on N.C.
130 about two miles east of the
Columbus County line.
The two allegedly got into a fight
after Gillcy said something or made
advances toward Hernandez's wife,
according to Detective Gene Caison
of the Brunswick County Sheriff s
Department.
Faircloth was with Gilley at the
bar and is charged with helping him
cscapc by "providing a vehiclc for
David Gillcy's cscapc and leaving
with David Gillcy in said vchiclc."
The two men fled in a tractor
truck, which was later found at a
truck stop on Interstate 95 near
Florence, S.C. From there, police
believe they caught a ride to Texas,
where they borrowed a car and
headed back east.
Gillcy and Faircloth were arrested
Feb. 3 in Baton Rouge, La., after po
lice at a routine traffic stop discov
ered that the two men were wanted
in North Carolina.
The grand jury also handed down
three indictments each in the case of
three men charged in connection
with the Jan. 14 shooting of Bolivia
resident Bernard Gailes.
Indicted were Ronald Elliot Rob
bins, 41, of Rt. 1, Lcland; William
Eugene Webb, 36, of Rt. 2, Lcland;
and Michael Allen Bell, 28, of
Wilmington. All were charged with
assault with a deadly weapon with
Phony 911 Report Leads
To Quick Arrest Of Caller
A telephone prankster who called in a false robbery report Saturday
night discovered that the 911 system not only alerts authorities to an
emergency, but it also helps policc identify and capture those who mis
use it.
David Lee Fraizcr, 37, of Denton Street, Ocean Isle Beach, was arrest
ed on a charge of "making a false, misleading ;?nd unfounded report to
Brunswick County Emergency Services (911) for the purpose of hinder
ing or obstructing a peace officer in the performance of his or her official
duties."
Fraizcr allegedly called 911 at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday to report an
armed robbery in progress at the Seaside Minit Mart, Brunswick
Detective Tom Hunter said Monday.
Within minutes, two Sunset Beach Policc patrol cars and two more
from the Ocean Isle Beach Policc Department converged on the convc
nicncc store along with five sheriff s deputies.
"We had the place surrounded, with guns drawn, but there didn't ap
pear to be anything going on," Hunter said. "I went inside and the clerk
came out from a back room and said there was no problem."
Concerned that the 911 caller might have identified the wrong conve
nience store. Hunter said half the officers went to the Calabash Minit
Mart, while the others rushed to the Party Mart in Ocean Isle Bcach. But
there was nothing amiss at either location.
So Hunter contacted the 911 center and asked for the name and ad
dress of the person who called in the report. He also had them play back
the tape of the call so he could identify the voice.
Armed with that information, the officers went to an apartment build
ing in Ocean Isle Bcach and arrested Fraizcr.
Hunter would not speculate as to why the false report was made.
However he said alcohol was involved.
"This should be a warning to anyone who might think of making a
false report on the 911 system," Hunter said. "They need to know that
their name, their address and their voice will be recorded. And wc will
prosccutc anyone wc catch."
Two Injured In Three
Vehicle Wreck On
Old Georgetown Road
Two drivers were injured Friday
in a thrcc-vchiclc accident al ap
proximately 10:35 a.m. on Old
Georgetown Road (S.R. 1163) two
miles cast of Calabash, according to
the N.C. Highway Patrol officc in
Wilmington.
Gene Summcrlin, 38, MyrUc
Beach, S.C., was westbound on Old
Georgetown Road in a 1987 Jeep.
Traveling in the opposite direction
were Tom Etedali, 52, of Calabash,
driving a 1988 Chrysler, and follow
ing him, Claude Bachelor Jr., 61, of
Sunset Beach, in a 1988 BMW.
Bachelor pulled out in an attempt
to pass Etedali, lost conuoi of his
BMW and skidded sideways and
was struck by Summerlin's oncom
ing Jeep and then the Chrysler, ac
cording to the report filed by
Trooper J.V. Dove.
Dove charged Bachelor with dri
ving too fast for conditions.
Bachelor was uninjured, while
Summcrlin and Etadali were trans
ported to The Brunswick Hospital in
Supply with injuries.
Damage was estimated at S5.000
each to the Etedali and Summcrlin
vehicles and S3,(XX) to Bachelor's
car.
Later Friday, at approximately
8:45 p.m., a woman was uninjured
after she ran off ihc highway lo
avoid striking another vchiclc.
Daisy Frink, 37, of Ash, was dri
ving cast on Thomasboro Road
(S.R. 1165) two miles west of
Calabash when she ran off the right
side of the road in her 1984
Oldsmobile. The car hit a ditch bank
and came to a stop.
Frink was uninjured, report
Trooper W.H. Thompson. Damage
to the vchiclc was estimated at
S1,5(X). No charges were filed.
Robert McCarter Jr., 43. of Long
Beach, was charged by Trooper J.H.
Kerr with making an unsafe move
ment Saturday, Feb. 13, following a
two-truck accident that happened
4.8 miles north of Shallottc on U.S.
17 near Supply.
McCarter was driving a 1985
Chevrolet pickup truck. From a me
dian crossover near Quilt Road (S.R.
1203), he pulled out onto U.S. 17 in
front of a southbound GMC pickup
truck operated by Waymond Mit
chell, 78, of Supply.
Mitchell was transported to The
Brunswick Hospital with injuries;
McCarter was not injured, according
to Kerr's report.
Damages were estimated at
S1,5(X) to McCartcr's truck and
$1,900 to Mitchell's truck.
COASTAL TEMPORARY SERVICES
announces new office
in Brunswick County
Sandia Goie, owner of Coastal Temporary Services,
(CIS) proudly announces the opening of her newest
office, located in the Sand Dollar Realty building at 102
Causeway Dr., Ocean Isle. Coastal Temporary Services
has expanded in order to better serve the Brunswick
County community.
CTS will provide businesses the advantage of flexible
qualified personnel. Each candidate will be personally
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individual skills matched to the customer's requirements.
CTS will specialize in providing customers with personnel
with various skills including: administrative, clerical,
production operators, warehouse, laborers, general
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Sales representative Estalene Marlowe and office
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Shallotte Men Charged In Ash Murder
intent to kill, indicting serious in
jury; breaking and entering a home
occupied by Van/.ie Smith and
Gailcs; and the theft of a safe from
the home.
The grand jury handed down a to
tal of 22 felony indictments Mon
day, agreeing that there was enough
evidence to prosccutc the defendants
in superior court. Those indicted.
with their charges, include:
?Dcrick Lcmar Andrews of Navas
sa. charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon with intent to kill Tor
rcncc Burns during a May 9 incident
outside a Lcland convenience store.
?Daniel Hill, 38, of Clarendon,
charged with giving false testimony
in the November murdcr-for-hirc tri
al of George Larrimorc, which was
moved to Brunswick County from
Columbus County.
?Stanley Randall Faulk, 42, of
Little Lane, Calabash, charged with
felonious possession of 99.1 grams
of marijuana and maintaining a ve
hicle for the purposes of keeping a
controlled substance.
9Anthony "Butch" Clark, 32. of Wil
mington, charged with two counts of
possession ol i. i a no o.y grams of
cocainc wilh intent lo sell and deliv
er: selling cocainc to an undercover
police officer; and conspiring with
Anwar Bryant and "persons un
known" 10 sell and deliver cocainc.
?Laura Patncc Robinson, 21, of Ri
3, Supply, with attempting to give
marijuana lo an inmate in the Bruns
wick County Jail.
Whiteville Man Pleads Guilty In 1988 Shotgun Slaying
BY ERIC CARLSON
Nearly five years after the Ixxly of
James Thomas Smith was found on
an isolated stretch of N.C. 904 near
the Columbus County line, his
killer. Garland
Thomas Tedder,
pleaded guilty
to a charge of
voluntary man
slaughter.
After accept
ing the plea in
Brunswick
County Superior
Court Monday. TEDDER
Judge E. Lynn
Johnson sentenced Tedder to six
yean; in prison.
Tedder, 31, of Whitevillc con
fessed to the shotgun slaying last
July 30 after Brunswick County
Sheriff's Detective Billy Hughes
pursued new evidence that lead to
his arrest on a charge of murder.
Hughes lives near the spot where the
shooting occurred.
District Attorney Rex Gore said
the state's case against Tedder was
based on that confession., in which
Tedder also said Smith had followed
him in a pickup truck after the two
had an argument at the home of a
mutual female friend. Tedder said he
was told that Smith had a pistol and
thought he was reaching for it when
Tedder shot him in the chest with a
shotgun.
No gun was found at the scene of
the killing.
"1 want to apologize for taking
your brother and your father and
your son's life," Tedder said to
Smith's family. "Bui 1 hail no other
choicc. He gave me no olher room."
Tedder said he had been dating a
woman whom Smith "was previously
involved with." He said he was at her
home on April 8, 1988 when he and
Smith got into an argument. Smith
was "highly intoxicated," he said.
When he left the house in his
pickup truck. Tedder said Smith fol
lowed him to his father's house and
continued following him as he drove
toward home.
Afraid to return home. Tedder
said he continued driving until he
crossed into Brunswick County with
Smith behind him. He said he
stopped and got out of the truck
holding the shotgun he kept behind
the seat. When Smith said some
thing and ran toward him with his
hand in his pocket. Tedder said he
fired oncc.
Gore said Tedder fired a sccond
shot at Smith's head as he lay in the
road.
Explaining his willingness to at
ccpt a reduccd plea in the ease. Gore
said "circumstances made it impos
siblc to get sufficient evidence to
bring the ease to trial." He also not
cd that Smith had a bkxxl alcohol
content of .21 percent, more than
twice the level that the suite sets as
legally impairing.
"1 realize the family would have
liked a different resolution, and I
would have liked to give them sonic
other resolution, but this was as
much as 1 could give them," Gore
said. "I hope this gives them some
closure to the murder of their father,
their brother and their son."
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