Leiand Convenience Store Robbed
Of $365 Friday, By Man With Pistol
A Leland convenience store was
robbed of about S'toS Friday night
by a man carrying a pistol in his
pocket, according to a crime report
on file at the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department Monday.
A clerk at the McCrcc Minit Murt
on Village Road told Deputy Brian
Sanders that she was standing by the
grill area of the store at about 8:20
p.m. when a stocky man wearing
shorts and no shirt came into the
grill. As she made her way from the
grill to the counter to wait on the
man he told her, "This is a hold-up.
Give me the money."
The woman told Sanders she was
stunned and didn't know if the man
was playing, the report said. Then
the robber showed her the butt of a
pistol protruding from his pocket
and told her. "I'm not playing. Give
me the money."
She said she opened the register
and followed the man's instructions
to bring him the cash drawer. With
one hand on the gun, she said he
scooped up the money and ran out
the door.
Two women who were approach
ing the store at the time told Sanders
they saw a man run out of the build
ing and into a nearby trailer park.
The> described him as being about 5
feet. 9 inches tall with a stocky build
and acne on his face. They said he
was bare-chested and was wearing
shorts with a flannel shirt wrapped
around his head.
Detective Larry Joyner has been
assigned to investigate the robbery.
In other crime reports:
? Detective Tom Hunter believes
he has a suspect in the beating of a
Myrtle Beach. S.C.. man by the side
of U.S. 17 near Thomasboro Road
last Monday afternoon (March 28).
The victim said he was hitch-hiking
south when a vehicle stopped and
then sped off, showering him with
gravel. The man said he picked up a
rock and threw it at the car. which
stopped. He said three men got out
of the car and beat him with sticks.
He was found semi-conscious and
taken to the Brunswick Hospital
badly bruised with head and facial
injuries.
? A 20-year-old Sunset Beach
man faces a charge of filing a false
criminal report in Brunswick
County and several other charges in
Horrv Countv. S.C., after he told
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Deputy Richard Long that his 1985
Mazda was stolen from his driveway
on Old Georgetown Road Saturday
night. Det. Hunter said he located
the car in South Carolina, where po
lice had stopped the car for making
an improper left turn. The driver ran
from the scene. Hunter said he will
charge the car's owner. Tyrone Lee
Miller, with filing a false report.
Horry County authorities plan to
charge him with resisting arrest, fail
ure to obey a lawful order, driving
without insurance and improper reg
istration. Hunter said.
? Someone stole a boat, motor
and trailer from a shed next to a
summer home on Jolly Roger Drive
in the Buccaneer Hills subdivision
of Holden Beach sometime last
month. Deputy Malcolm Long re
ported that the thief or thieves
forced their way into the shed by
breaking two locks. The 15-foot
boat, a 70 horsepower motor, the
trailer and other accessories were
valued at about $6,350. There was
an estimated SI00 damage.
? A $2,500 dinghy was reported
stolen from the boat storage area at
Marsh Harbor Marina in Calabash
sometime in the past three months.
The owner told Deputy Joey Adams
that he moved his yacht from the
marina last December, but left the
dingy there. When he returned Tues
day morning, the dock master re
portedly told him it was gone.
? A color television, a videocas
sette recorder and a microwave oven
were among the items stolen in a
mobile home break-in on Live Oak
Drive in the Whispering Heights
subdivision off Seashore Road,
Holden Beach. The Hope Mills man
whose father owns the trailer told
Deputy Jerry Gray that he left it se
cure last August and returned Friday
evening to find that someone had cut
a screen and pried open a rear win
dow to get inside. Among the
Si,625 worth of stolen property was
a radio scanner, a "boom box," three
rods and reels and a bicycle.
? More than S1 .(MX) worth of
property was stolen in a break-in
that occurred on 7th Street in Sunset
Harbor sometime in the past three
weeks The 65-vear-old Stanlev man
who owns the mobile home told
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arrived Friday evening to find the
pump house overturned and the
storm door open. The pump was not
removed, but there was extensive
damage to the front door jam and
frame. Missing was a videocassette
recorder, a microwave oven, a tool
set. a coffee maker, an AM/FM ra
dio. three rods and reels, a circular
saw and a tackle box. Damage was
estimated at S250. The report noted
that the man "advised he had not
given anyone permission to enter his
residence in this manner and remove
the listed items."
? A 13-year-old boy has been ar
rested on a charge of larceny of a
firearm in the theft of an eight-shot
.22-caliber pistol from an 84-year
old man who lives on Pearl Street in
Ocean Isle Beach. The man told
Deputy Adams that he kept the pis
tol under his couch in the den. He
also said the boy had visited him on
the day the pistol turned up missing.
Det. Hunter investigated the case
and made the arrest.
? Someone stole a car that report
edly overheated and was left on
Turkey Trap Road in Cedar Grove
early Sunday morning. The owner,
who lives in a mobile home park off
N.C. 130 near Shallotte, told Deputy
Jerry Gray that she left the car with
the keys inside at about 1 a.m. and
came back at about 2:30 p.m. to find
it missing. A N.C. Highway Patrol
officer later found the 1986 Buick
Century in a ditch on Red Bug
Road.
? A motorcycle was stolen from
the shoulder of U.S. 74/76 near
Leland Friday night after the bike
was left there overnight. The owner
told Deputy Robert Long that he
was on his way to Columbus County
at about 9:30 p.m. when a tire went
flat tire and he left the motorcycle
beside the westbound lane. It was
gone when he came back to get it
shortly after noon Saturday. He told
Long that tile 1983 Honda CB l(KX)
was worth about $6,000.
? Somebody stole the radio cas
sette player from a car that broke
down and was left overnight on
N.C. 133 about a mile north of
Boiling Spring Lakes Friday night.
The victim told Deputy Michael
Weldrick that she left the 1984
Chevrolet Camaro parked at about 5
p.m. and relumed the next afternoon
io finu a passenger side window
smashed and her stereo removed. It
was valued at about SI30.
? There was an estimated S1,300
damage reported in the March 28
theft of about S312 worth of frozen
flounder from a seafood company
on Longwood Road. The thieves
broke into a freezer truck and stole
five boxes of fish. Deputy Richard
Long's report said.
? Four chairs, a dining table and
an electric range were stolen from a
mobile home on a sales lot on Long
wood Road outside Shallotte Wed
nesday night. The owner told Det
ective John Ingram that he left the
business at about 6 p.m. and re
turned the next morning to find that
one of the double-wide trailers had
been broken into. The stolen proper
ty was valued at S240. There was
about S50 damage.
? Thieves broke out a window in
the front door of a home on Taft
Road, Supply, Thursday night and
stole a $250 videocassette recorder
and jar containing about $15 in
change. Deputy Malcolm Long set
the damage estimate at $100.
? A 100-pound liquefied petrole
um (LP) gas tank was stolen from a
mobile home on Tideland Street, off
Old Ferry Road, Supply, sometime
in the past five months. The Arch
dale man who owns the trailer said
that it appeared the thieves had dis
connected the tank's fittings with
hand tools and carried it off. Deputy
Gray estimated its value at about
$200.
? Deputy Phil Bryant took a re
port from the owner of an Ocean
Isle Beach real estate office who
said that he had been receiving
threatening phone calls. The man
said that he returned home from
work one day last December and
found a message on his answering
machine "by someone stating that
they were going to get him when
they got out of prison." There was a
similar call on March 25. In both
cases the caller "used a lot of foul
and threatening language," the re
port said.
? Deputy Joseph Scoggins was
called to investigate a robbery repor
ted by a woman who lives on Mid
way Road, Bolivia. She said her
boyfriend stole $20 from her Sunday
afternoon.
Phone Tips From Citizens Lead To Drug Arrests
BY ERIC CARLSON
Tips from concerned citizens to
the Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department narcotics squad led to
two drug arrests last week, while a
third man was apprehended at West
Brunswick High School on cocaine
charges.
Drug agents say they have re
ceived numerous calls from people
reporting what they believe to be il
legal drug activity recently. Many of
the reports have led to arrests and
more tips are encouraged, said nar
cotics Detective Gary Shay.
Thursday night, detectives acted
on information obtained from a con
fidential source regarding the al
leged sales of marijuana by a Hold
en Beach woman.
After obtaining a search warrant,
agents searched the home of Lea
Hedgecock Ganey, 34, of Moore
Street and found one ounce of mari
juana stored in a hidden compart
ment in the bathroom. Detective
Doug Todd said.
Ganey was charged with posses
sion with intent to sell and deliver
marijuana, maintaining a residence
for keeping a controlled substance
and misdemeanor possession of drug
paraphernalia. She is free on bond.
Last Monday (March 31), the nar
cotics office received a telephone tip
from a resident that led to the arrest
of Scott Harvey Dixon, 24, of Long
Beach, Detective Billy Hughes said
Hughes said he went to Dixon's
residence and was given permission
to search the house. Dixon was
charged with misdemeanor posses
sion of marijuana and drug para
phernalia. He was released on bond.
Also last Monday, sheriff's De
tective Tom Hunter was stopped at
the intersection of U.S. 17 and N.C.
130 when he noticed a black Chevr
olet Monte Carlo that fit the descrip
tion of a vehicle used in an assault
three days earlier.
Hunter stopped the vehicle in the
parking lot at West Brunswick High
School. He was in the process of ar
resting Curtis Pigottc Jr., 30, of
Thomasboro on outstanding war
rants when the man ran off and
tossed "a bright metal object" be
tween two parked school buses.
Auxiliary Deputy Dan Hunter ran
after Pigotte, placed him on the
ground and handcuffed him. A
search of the area revealed that the
metal object was a smoking pipe
containing cocaine residue, Detec
tive Hunter said.
Pigotte was charged with cocaine
possession, maintaining a vehicle
for keeping controlled substances
and possession of drug parapherna
lia. He was being held in Brunswick
County Jail Monday in lieu of a
$2,5(X) secured bond.
Anyone with information regard
ing illegal drug activity is encour
aged to call the sheriff's department
narcotics office at 253-4797. Names
will be kept confidential and callers
will not be required to testify. Re
wards are offered in some cases.
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