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Sunday Stabbing Results From Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen An argument over kitchen technique turned ugly Sunday night when the cook allegedly stabbed the critic at a home on lu:wis Loop Road in Bolivia, according to a crime report on file at the Brunswick County Sheriff's office Monday The victim, Billy Ray Johnson, 35. told Deputy Lewis Ward that he and his housemate Leonard Anthony Hodges, 33, were cooking steaks and hot dogs at aboui 11 p.m. Johnson said he was "going to give Leonard a piece of his mind about how he was cooking the steaks," the report said. An argument ensued and "the next thing he knew, Hodges had cut him," the Johnson told Ward. The Hodges gave a slightly different account. He told Ward that Johnson had consumed a 12 pack of beer that day, while Hodges only drank three cans. He said the two of them were arguing about the steaks while he was "trimming them with a butcher knife. According to the Hodges' account, the argu ment turned iriio a scuffle, during which a glass was broken He said Johnson lunged at him and they fell to the floor "The knife entered the victim's side during this time." the report said. According warrant for Hodges' arrest, Johnson was stabbed three times with a butcher knife. Hodges told Ward that he put Johnson into his car and drove him to the Eimergencv Medical Ser vices building at the county complex. He was transferred to an ambulance and taken to the Brunswick Hospital, where he was treated and re leasee; Hodges was charged with assault with a dead ly weapon inflicting serious injury. He was re leased on bond Mendav In other crime reports: ?Someone called in a bomb threat to the R:-se< department store in Southport last Tuesday ir.err.March Si. A 23-year-old employee of >:ori told police she was working at the ser ?..ce de>< when she answered the phone and heard nothing or. the line. Then a male voice said "there - i -vmb in the store." according to the re r>;r. The woman said it sounded like the caller i;- c venr.; the mouthpiece. She hung up and :.z the manager, who called 911. Sheriff's deputies searched the building, but no bomb was t ?A Wilmington man claimed he was forced out of his car on Cedar Loop Road in the Phoenix area one night last week. He told Deputy Mark Snowden that he was in the area "looking for his girlfriend" at about 11 p.m. when a group of black males approached and kicked out the driver's door window. He said they "told him thev were going to kill him." the report said. The victim said he ran away after one of the men reached into the cat and stole his Wevs. The ear was latei found CRIME REPORT with all the windows broken out and other dam age totalling about S2.500. ?A 22-caIiber revolver, a color television and assorted jewelry valued at more than $600 were stolen in a break-in that occurred at a mobile home on Evans Circle. Shallotte. sometime last week. The owner told Deputy Jerry Gray that he returned to the trailer Wednesday to find that someone had pried open the rear door, causing an estimated S150 damage. ?More than S 1.9(H) worth of tools and house hold items were stolen from a mobile home in the Shangri La subdivision on Crane Road. Ash. Friday night. The 66-year-old man who lives there told Deputy Randy Robinson that someone broke into both the trailer and a nearby tool shed by removing the glass from two windows. Missing were a color television, a videocassettc recorder, a microwave oven, a cable TV box. a gas heater, a circular saw. a drill and a bench grinder. ?The owner of a rental house on I S. 17 near Supply last week reported that someone caused an estimated $3,500 damage there during the first week of February. He told Deputy Malcolm Long that the previous tenant may have done it. The of ficer found signs of forced entry to the rear door of the home. ?Deputy Keithan Home investigated the re ported theft of a push lawn mower from a home on Tree Acres Circle in Shingletree Acres, Shal lotte. last week. The woman who lives there said she walked into the yard and noticed the mower missing from its usual storage space under the front porch. It was valued at around S550. ??\n $800 pressure washer was reported stolen from a home on Riverside Drive in Varnamtown last week. One of the homeowners told Ward that she went shopping in Shallotte at about 11 a m Friday. When she came back a few hours later, she noticed the equipment missing. ?About $100 worth of "meat products" were stolen from a home on Holmes Road. Supply. Thursday. The homeowner told Deputy Ward !h;;'. he and his wife left at about 9 a.m. to take their child to the doctor, leaving the house unlocked. When they returned at about 5 p.m.. they found that someone had come in through the front door and removed the food from their refrigerator. ? Three rods and reels, a TV set. a tool box full of tools, a grass trimmer, two flannel shirts and a wool coat were among the items reported missing in a break-in that occurred on Woodthrush Lane in Shell Point Acres sometime in the past two weeks. The owner, an Elon College man. told Deputy Rebckah McDonald that he arrived at the home Saturday night and found that the front doot had been pried open. causing an estimated $30 damage. ?Th ere was no sign of forced entry at a house on Shell Point Road that was broken into Saturday. The owner told Deputy Cathy Hamilton that the thieves made off with an answering ma chine. a leather tote hag and a pocketbook valued at a total of $73. ?A 20-year-old woman who lives on East Drive, Shallotte, told police that two men broke into her 1993 Dodge Colt and stole a radar detec tor valued at about $85. The thieves also caused an estimated $100 damage to a rear view mirror. She said she left the vehicle unlocked with the key in her house. ?Someone broke into a mobile home on 4th Street in Sunset Harbor sometime in the past three weeks and made off with a color television and a tackle box. The thieves also caused extensive damage to the doors to the trailer and a nearby garage, according to McDonald's report. ?The wife of a Sunny Point longshoreman was accused by her estranged husband of break ing into his gun cabinet and stealing two shotguns and a .50-caliber black powder rifle late last month. The man reported the theft to McDonald Saturday. He said he was arguing with his wife at his home on Fish Factory Road on the morning of Feb. 28. He left and returned a short time later, when he "noticed his wife putting his guns in her truck." The weapons were later returned by the sheriffs department after they were confiscated in a "roadside domestic dispute," the report said. Hie guns were valued at about $410. There was an estimated $215 damage to the gun cabinet and two of the guns. ?A 15-speed mountain bike was reported stolen from the front yard of a trailer at Chad wick's Mobile Home Park in I .eland last Wednes day night. Deputy Matt Jesson estimated its value at about $200. ?Detective Capt. Phil Perry took a report from a Florida migrant worker who said his car was stolen from a trailer at the Brunswick Mobile Home Park in Inland last weekend. The man said he left the car, keys and title with another man "to see if he could sell it." The man still has the keys, but the gray 1984 Ford Mustang is missing. It i > * illllvvi i ?Someone caused an estimated SftiHi damage by shooting at a business sign on U.S. 74/76 near 1.eland Tuesday night. Deputy Matt Jesson found three spent shells on the ground near the sign. ?Jesson also investigated the theft of a toy poodle from a home off Maco Road, Leland, last Wednesday afternoon. The owner said she saw a blue, late-model, two-door car drive up with twro children in the back seat. She said someone got out and removed the poodle from the yard. It was described as solid white with brown spots and a pink nose. The dog is a female, four-months preg nant and answers to the name "Dee Dee." It was valued at 5>4(M) Leader Of Sunset Harbor Juvenile Theft Ring Gets 10-Year Sentence BY ERIC CARLSON Residents and vacation home owners in Sunset Harbor will sleep easier now that the man accused of organizing a juvenile theft ring in their community has been sent to prison for 10 years. Timothy liarl Street. 40. of Hol den Beach Road. Supply, is believed to have encouraged several Sunset Harbor boys, ages 13 to 15. to break into at least 15 summer residences by offering to purchase the stolen property, Brunswick County She riff's Detective Charlie Miller said Tuesdav Street pleaded guilty last week to six counts of receiving stolen goods. His alleged accomplices, all students at South Brunswick Middle School, face up to 15 charges of felonious breaking and entering and larceny in juvenile court. Miller said. More than $20,000 worth of prop em was taken in the thefts, which occurred between March and Oct ober of last year. Miller said. Acting as a group, the young thieves would break into unoccupied trailers, boats and storage sheds and make elf with televisions, microwave ovens, fish ing equipment and other "easily saleable" items. Two golf carts also were stolen. "People down there were getting tired of it," Miller said. "They were to the point that they would do just about anything to protect their prop erty. They were a big help in our in vestigation.' After receiving information indi cating the crimes might be the work of local teenage boys. Miller and Detective Gene Caison arranged for an undercover informant to gain the confidence of the juveniles. The boy purchased stolen goods from the others and was eventually intro duced to Street, Miller said. Street is a former resident ot Sun set Harbor who had moved to the Holden Beach area. But he kept a storage building and camper at his former home. Miller said. "He got the boys to do the break ins and put the stuff in his storage People are talking about us... ? Now's your chance to meet the new managers... Mike and Bethanna Conic by and sec the changes we've made and use this half price coupon. Buy one entree at regular price and get second entree of equal or lesser value 1/2 Price Open Thursday . thru Sunday 5-9 pm Valid Mar. 17-20. coupon required. Betty's Waterfront Restaurant On the waterway at Holdcn Beach 842 3381 building. Then he'd pay them lor it," Miller said. "They were walking around with $50 to $100 in their pockets, which is a lot when you're only 13." Most of the stolen property was probably sold at Ilea markets. Miller said. Very little was recovered. Detectives got an unexpected bonus in their undercover operation. Miller said. During one of his visits to Street s home, the young infor mant was asked if he wanted to buy two potted marijuana plants. "It surprised us," Miller said. "But we bought it." In superior court last week. Street also pleaded guilty to one charge each of manufacturing marijuana, possession with intent to sell and de liver marijuana and selling marijua na. Me was given an additional five year prison sentence, suspended on the condition that he pay $4,200 restitution to his victims and the sheriff's department narcotics squad. Judge William C. Gore Jr. also or dered Street to submit to random drug tests and warrantless searches and to not "harass, communicate threats, molest or allow anyone else" to bother the juveniles involved in the case. As part o!" a plea bargain, the state agreed to drop a charge of contribut ing to the delinquency of a minor. 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