Second Southport Store
Receives Bomb Threat
For the third time in as many
months, a prankster made a fake
bomb threat to a Southport retail
business Sunday night, according to
a crime report filed at the Brunswick
County Sheriff's Department Mon
day.
Responding to a call from the
Food Lion grocery store at River
Run Shopping Center, Deputy Mary
Cron spoke to the assistant manager
who told her that a cashier at the
store had received three unusual
calls shortly before 9 o'clock that
evening.
The employee said a voice came
on the line the first time and spoke,
but she was unable to understand
what was said, the deputy reported.
When the sccond call came in,
she said she heard nothing over the
receiver before the caller hung up.
The third time the phone rang, a
voice said. "You've got a bomb in
your storeroom, you stupid (exple
tive deleted)." The cashier said the
caller sounded like "a young while
male." according to the report.
Sheriff's deputies searched the
store, but no bomb was found.
Deputy Cron reported.
Another businevs in the same area
recently received two bomb threats
over the store's loudspeaker Both
tim?i tjw rrnrirtv wftf ilremed to be
pranks after a search was unable to
uncover any sign of an explosive de
vice The calls were blamed on
someone broadening over the in
tercom from outs.'te the building.
In other cTime reports:
? An Ocean Isle Beach business
man reported the theft of a new
$2.mK) equipment trailer from his
farm on Ruvstown Road sometime
in the past two weeks. Die man told
Deputy Sgl (ienc Browning that he
left the trailer parked about 14 days
ago When he went to move it last
week, the IW4 Canon trailer was
gone
? Two shotguns, a rifle and a pair
of rods and reels were stolen from a
storage room at a home on Sturgeon
Drive in Ixland last week. The vic
tim told Deputy Bnan Sanders that
he discovered the theft Sunday
evening Missing was a 27t)-caliber
rifle with scope, a 12-gaugc shot
gun. a 20-gauge shotgun and the
fishing tackle The deputy found the
rear window of the home pried
open tic valued the stolen item* at
$1,676.
? Someone apparently used a
1972 Ford Mustang for target prac
tice on Cedar Hill Road near Iceland
Friday night A 25-year-old man
told Deputy Sanders that he let his
girlfriend use the car and she ran out
of gaviline at about 6:3<) p.m When
he went to retrieve the vehidc, he
found it had two flat tires and 1 1
CRIME REPORT
bullet holes in the front left side.
Damage was estimated io be about
$640.
? A 1989 Ford Mustang convert
ible, valued at $4,500, was stolen
from the driveway of a home on Mt.
Misery Road in Leland Sunday
night. The victim told Deputy
Robert Long that he was asleep at
home when his mother woke him
and said his car was missing. She
told Long that she was awakened
when she heard the vehicle "crank
up" and went to the front door. She
said she "saw the vehicle in question
make a right hand turn out of her
driveway onto Mt. Misery Road,"
the report said.
? About $1,750 worth of power
tools were stolen from a shed beside
a home on Ash-Little River Road
near Ash late last month. The owner
reported the theft to Deputy Richard
[>ong on Sunday, telling him that the
intruders stole a carpet stretcher, a
chain saw and a miter saw.
? An employee of a construction
company on Chapel Loop Road.
Leland, came to work Saturday
morning and found the office copy
machine sitting in the parking lot.
She found the building's front win
dow broken and "the entire office in
disarray," Deputy Anthony Key re
ported. Missing were a two-way ra
dio system, a facsimile machine and
a telephone aaswenng machine val
ued at about $2,900 There was an
estimated $3,500 damage to the
copier.
? A woman who lives on Maco
Road near Ixland reported that her
home was broken into twice while
she was in the hospital late last
month According to her son. a thief
came in through an unlocked door
on Oct. 24 and stole 37 video
games She told Deputy Steven Trull
that her son also said her videocas
scttc recorder was stolen on Oct. 29
by someone who broke in through
her daughter's bedroom window A
possible suspect was identified. The
total value of stolen items was esti
mated to be about $1,750.
? Detectives arc investigating a
reported larceny from a Bolton
trucking company by an employee
who lives in the Bolivia area. Dep
uty Cathy Hamilton's report states
that the man allegedly had a check
made out to himself for $2,262 with
out authorization He is also be
lieved to have stolen a telephone
pager valued at $180.
? A Shallottc man reported the
theft of a .25 -caliber autoloading
pistol from his vehicle w(ule it was
parked for service at a repair shop
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recently. Deputy Hamilton found
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? Someone reportedly entered a
residence on Ixwis Loop Road in
Bolivia and took a compact disc
player from beneath a bed sometime
in the past two weeks. The victim
told Deputy Hamilton that the thief
left behind the box- in which the
$500 CD player was stored. There
was no sign of forced entry to the
home. "She advised it was possibly
taken by a family member or friend
of the family," the report said.
? A grass trimmer and a chain
saw valued at more than $500 was
removed from a storage building
outside a home on Randolphville
Road in Bolivia sometime in the
past two weeks. The shed was un
locked, but Deputy Rebekah Mc
Donald reported that the owner "had
not given anyone permission to en
ter and/or carry away the items."
? Deputy Sgt. Joey Scoggins took
a report from a Iceland woman who
said her son's bicycle was stolen
from beside their mobile home on
Grant Way. off Vernon Road,
Thursday night. She said her son
parked the lX-speed mountain bike
at the end of the trailer Thursday af
ternoon and found it missing at
about 1(1 a.m. the next day. The lock
securing the bike had been broken
off. Deputies later recovered the
$200 bicycle from a woman who
said her son found it behind a
Phoenix convenience store.
? A retiree who lives in the Sea
Pines subdivision near Southport re
ported the theft of a 10-speed moun
tain bike from his yard two weeks
ago Deputy Jerry Gray estimated its
value at $159
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