Vacation Home Owners Find Break
Ins Over Holiday Weekend
Seven homes on two streets in
Sunset Harbor were hit by thieves
recently, according to crime reports
on file at the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department Monday.
Deputies were deluged with calls
to investigate break-ins throughout
the county as vacation home owners
returned to the area for the three-day
holiday weekend. Many of the
homes had been left vacant for a
month or more.
Three of the Sunset Harbor break
ins were discovered on Gervais
Street and another four occurred on
Darby Street.
Ten fishing rods and reels valued
at about $740 were stolen from a
mobile home on Gervais Street
sometime between Aug. 28 and
Sept. 4. The Rockingham man who
owns the trailer told Deputy Joseph
Scoggins that his neighbor had cal
led to report that the back dt>or glass
had been broken. Damage was esti
mated at about $25.
Two campers on the same street
were broken into sometime between
Aug. 8 and Sept. 4 by a thief or
thieves who stole a 12-volt battery
and a fire extinguisher from one
camper and nothing from the other.
Scoggins estimated the value of sto
len goods at $ 1 20 and the damage at
$100.
Deputy Rebekah McDonald was
called to investigate the theft of a
gill net and two rods and reels in
two separate break-ins at another
residence on the street. The owner, a
Charlotte man. said that someone
entered his garage and stole the net
at about 4 p.m. Aug. 29. He told
McDonald that he had forgotten to
report another incident that occurred
between June 16 and July 3, in
which the fishing gear was stolen af
ter someone broke in a rear bedroom
window. There was an estimated
$75 damage and $210 worth of
stolen goods.
On Darby Street, someone report
edly pried open the door of a storage
building and stole a golf cart valued
at about $1,000 sometime between
Aug. 22 and Sept. 3. The owner told
Deputy J R. Earp Jr. that he found
the lock pried off the door of the
building. It appeared that the three
wheeled cart had been pushed away
or "hot wired," since the keys were
not left inside.
A Hamlet, S.C., woman whose
vacation trailer is on the same street
CRIME REPORT
told Deputy Malcolm Long that
someone cut the screen on the back
porch of the home and tried to pry
open the back door. Nothing was re
ported missing. The woman said she
discovered the damage, estimated at
$120, when she arrived at about 10
a.m. Saturday. The trailer had been
left vacant since Aug. 8.
McDonald investigated another
break-in on the street in which there
was an estimated $75 damage to a
rear door window and the door to a
nearby shed. A neighbor discovered
the break-in Friday night while se
curing some outdoor porch furniture
at the home. The owner said the
home had been left intact Aug. 22.
In addition, there was about $10
damage done to screen door at a va
cation trailer on Darby Street. The
owner, a Clover, S.C., woman, told
police that she had been gone for
about three weeks and returned Fri
day morning to find that the back
door screen had been cut open.
There was no sign of entry.
In other crime reports on file at
the sheriff's office Monday:
hree men with baseball bats help
ed a man chase off his former girl
friend's new boyfriend at her home
on Sweet Bay Drive in Sea Pines
subdivision near Southport Saturday
night. The woman who lives in the
trailer told McDonald that she was
awakened at about 3 a.m. when she
heard her daughter screaming. The
woman said she got up and found
that her ex-boyfriend had broken in
and was standing in the living room.
He shoved past her into the bedroom
and chased her new boyfriend into
the yard, where three men with
baseball bats were waiting and
chased him down the road. The case
is being investigated as a first-de
gree burglary.
?A Broadway man was robbed of
$145 cash when he stopped to make
a call at a pay telephone outside the
Phoenix Country Store in Leland
Saturday night. He told Deputy
Brian Sanders that he was talking on
the phone at about 11:45 when he
saw two black males walking to
ward him from Cedar Hill Road.
"He stated that he didn't pay much
attention to them and the next thing
he knew the two black males were
choking him and threw him on the
ground," Sanders said. The two re
portedly told the man to "give it up,"
then removed the money from his
pocket and ran off.
?Someone fired a rifle through the
window of a summer residence on
Pompano Street in Little Shallotte
River Estates recently. The owner,
who lives in Climax, told Long that
he found the rifle slug inside the
trailer Saturday morning at about 7
o'clock. The deputy estimated the
damage to the inner and outer win
dows at about $200.
?An estimated $1,200 worth of fish
ing tackle was stolen by a thief or
thieves who rut the lock off a shed
outside a summer residence in Shell
Point Acres recently. The Walnut
Cove man who owns the home told
Long that there were 14 rods and
reels and a tackle box taken. The
theft was discovered Saturday night.
?Fishing tackle and tools valued a!
more than $1,100 were stolen f:om a
home and storage shed on Ann
Boney Drive in the Buccaneer Hills
subdivision at Holden Beach recent
ly. The owner told McDonald that
he returned to the vacation home
from Lumberton to find that some
one had pried open the front door of
the trailer and the storage building.
Missing were eight fishing rods, a
tackle box, life jackets, a circular
saw, a tool box, a paint gun, a
rechargeable drill, an electric screw
driver, three hammers, a jigsaw and
a marine battery. There was an esti
mated $370 damage.
?A color television, a videocassette
recorder, a microwave oven and an
electric screwdriver were reported
stolen from a vacation trailer in the
Cherrywood subdivision at Holden
Beach sometime in the past three
weeks. Long found thai the thief had
forced through the back door to get
inside, fie estimated the value of
stolen property at $365 and the dam
age at $1(H).
?Deputy Phil Bryant investigated
the theft of an electric chain hoist
from a tobacco barn on Ash-Little
River Road that was discovered by
one of the owner's employees early
Friday morning. It was valued at
about $700.
?A 70-horsepower Evinrude out
board motor was reported stolen
from a boat parked in the Conch
Shell storage area sometime in the
past two weeks. Also found missing
was the boat's control panel and a
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fishing net. Deputy Randy Robinson
estimated the total value of stolen
property at $6,515.
?Someone broke a lock and stole a
6-horsepower Evinrude outboard
motor off a boat parked in the yard
of a home on Shell Point Road
Thursday night. Long estimated its
value at $500.
?The lower drive of an inboard mo
tor was stolen from a boat parked in
front of a produce stand on N.C. 179
near Ocean Isle Beach sometime in
the past week. The Laurinburg man
who owns the boat told Deputy
Robert Long that he had left it there
in hopes of selling it. When he came
back to the area Monday, he found
that the drive unit, a generator and
fuel tank assembly had been re
moved. Long estimated their value
at $2,500.
?Deputy Matthew Jesson investigat
ed the theft of an air conditioner and
gas grill from a home on Potterfield
Road, Winnabow, Saturday night.
The deputy estimated the value of
stolen property at $1,300.
?In another break-in on the same
street, a water pump and bladder
tank were stolen sometime between
Aug. 31 and Sept. 3, according to
Deputy Richard Long's report. The
owner said the items were taken
from a storage shed outside the mo
bile home. The stolen property was
valued at $133.
?Long also investigated the report
ed theft of a single-barrel .410 shot
gun from a mobile home on Mt.
Misery Road in Leland Friday night.
The owner said he had gone out of
town with friends and returned to
find the gun missing from its hiding
place beneath the living room couch.
It was valued at about $128.
?A man told Scoggins that about
$700 worth of stereo equipment was
stolen from his car while it was in
the care of a Southport body shop.
He said he left his 1986 Chevrolet
Camaro at the shop to be painted
last July. When it was returned six
weeks later, the man who drove it
said that "some parts were missing."
The victim told Scoggins that a
speaker cabinet, two woofers, an
electrical crossover unit and a power
amplifier were missing from the car.
flTwo televisions, two window fans
and a clock radio valued at nearly
$700 were stolen from a trailer in
the Villa Nova mobile home park
near Southport recently. The owner
told Deputy J.D. Gray that she had
been away from the residence for
about two weeks and discovered the
theft Monday afternoon. The deputy
estimated the value of stolen proper
ty at nearly $700.
?Harp investigated the theft of a
wallet from an employee at the
Carolina Power and Light nuclear
power plant near Southport Saturday
afternoon. The man said the wallet,
containing $40 in cash, seven credit
cards and a drivers license, was re
moved from his clothing in the plant
dressing room.
?A man who lives in the Heritage
Haven subdivision of Calabash re
ported that someone damaged his
mailbox over the weekend. He told
Bryant that there was a party at a
home across the street Friday night
and the vandalism was found the
next morning. There was an estimat
ed $20 damage.
Man Nabbed For Car Theft
Sought On Maryland Charges
Sunset Beach Police Chief J.B.
Buell said "quick response by po
lice" Friday night led to the recov
ery of a stolen car and the arrest of a
fugitive wanted in Maryland for nar
cotics violations.
Ruth Pratt Lemons of Shoreline
Drive, Sunset Beach, reported her
1992 Lincoln Town Car missing
from her driveway at 11:30 p.m.,
Buell said. The keys had been left in
the ignition.
A short time later, Sgt. Lisa Mas
sey spotted the car as she patrolled
near the Pelican Square shopping
center at Seaside. Upon arresting
Allen Kenneth Staimons, who listed
his residence as Magnolia Drive,
Sunset Beach. Massey discovered he
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