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February 2008 • Vol. 4, No. 8 A Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. Town Hall 247-4353
Burglars Bedevil Beacon's Reach
By Charlie McBriarty
Four days after Christmas and
somewhere between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
four oceanfront homes and three cars in
Pine Knoll Shores were burglarized. Three
of the homes were in Maritime Place and
the fourth in Forest Dunes, all located in
Beacon's Reach. Every one of of the homes
was occupied and one of the occupants
was awakened in the early hours of the
morning by a burglar in their bedroom.
The thieves appeared to take only
cash and gift cards. Chief of Police Joey
Culpepper disclosed that a series of similar
burglaries have been reported recently
in other Carteret County communities.
He noted that this rash of burglaries is
Keeper of the Keys - Not only keys, but
items of jewelry, garage door openers and
an assortment of other odds and ends that
people have lost or misplaced along the
way. Julie Anderson, deputy town clerk
who mans the receptionist desk at town
hall, displays the current collection of
oddball items in the town hall lost and
found. At present the contents include a
strand of rosary beads, a medical alert ID
tag, a copy of a Hardy Boys mystery, one
glove and, always a big item, a supply of
sun glasses. Missing something? It might
be fruitful to check in at town hall.
somewhat unusual in several respects.
More often the thefts occur in unoccupied
homes and the loot includes jewelry,
credit cards, cameras and electronics in
ad dition to the cash. Other burglaries have
involved forcible entry and even property
damage. This did not occur with these
recent thefts. In fact in one PKS home,
entry was apparently gained by means
of an unlocked door while access in the
others appeared to have been gained by
inserting a screwdriver or similar device
between the door jam and door itself. The
chief noted that all of the autos afforded
the thieves easy access. They were parked
in driveways or carports and were not
locked. He also stated that none of the
four homes had engaged their exterior
door dead-bolts and that although some
of the homes were equipped with security
alarms none had been activated.
Culpepper further noted that the number
and severity of crimes being dealt with by
the police has been increasing during the
last several years. Although there was
no reason to believe that weapons were
utilized in these recent PKS robberies,
the chief did report that in the past two
to three months a total of nine guns have
been confiscated by police. He believes it
is important that the citizens be informed
of what is happening in the community.
He is hopeful that awareness can result
in citizens taking steps to reduce the risk
of crime. He pledged that the PKSPD
is dedicated to the safety and security
of its citizens and offered the following
suggestions of how citizens could assist
in this process:
• First, if you experience some activity
in or around your residence, call 911
immediately! Quick police response
time significantly increases the chances
of apprehension.
• Lock your doors, including the dead
bolts, whenever you leave and each night
before bedtime.
• If you have a security system, activate
it when you leave for any period of time
and when you go to bed.
(Burglars) Continued on Page 3
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And It Comes Out Here - A slurry of sand and water gushes out of the oceanfront
end of the pipeline carrying shoal material dredged from sections of the Intracoastal
Waterway in Bogue Sound across Bogue Banks for deposit on the ocean beach in Pine
Knoll Shores. Some 11,000 truck loads of sand are scheduled to be spread across a
2,000-foot section of beach at the extreme eastern edge of the town.
Latest Sand a Real Bonanza
By Bill
It might not have been esthetically
appealing, but the big black pipe that
snaked down the edge of the fifth fairway
at the Country Club of the Crystal Coast,
burrowed under Highway 58, emerged
on the other side and ran down to the
beach was a welcome sight to Pine Knoll
Shores residents. It meant that additional
sand was being pumped onto the town's
beaches to. help ward off the ravages of
erosion induced by storms and tides.
The new sand was doubly welcome
because it was being pumped ashore
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without any direct cost to Pine Knoll
Shores taxpayers It is all part of a federally-
financed project to dredge several sections
(reaches) of the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway (AIWW) to keep them deep
enough to accommodate shipping. This
round of maintenance dredging, done
periodically under the direction of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, includes work
on several reaches of the AIWW between
Morehead City and Cape Fear.
Pine Knoll Shores is the beneficiary of the
sand being dredged up from four sections
(Sand) Continued on Page 2
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