Getting it right
Crews from the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad
are cleaning up around their tracks. Over the years,
extra rails have been stored near the tracks and the
smalt crane easily picked them up and moved them
last week.
Over $14,000 taken in break-in
An estimated $14,850 was taken
from a Hoke County residence in a
break-in that occurred sometime in
the last month, reports from the
Hoke County Sheriffs Depart
ment show.
When William Gill returned
home after about a month out of
town, he found eight rooms in his
house ransacked along with his
tool shed, according to reports.
Taken from the house was a
VHS video cassette recorder, a
portable Beta video recorder and
camera, an entire stereo system, a
Sony television, a 12 gauge Brown
ing automatic shotgun, a 30-30
Remington rifle, a Gibson Les
Paul Custom guitar, an amplifier,
a tool box full of tools, a Pentax
camera and lenses and a satellite
dish, reports say.
The investigation is continuing
into the matter, according to
reports.
In an unrelated incident, jack
Lanier reported an attempted
break-in at Midway Mobile
Homes.
While he was sitting in his of
fice, two men threw a chair
through the window and attempted
to enter.
Lanier stepped out of the trailer
office and fired a gun over the
heads of the two subjects and they
ran, reports say.
Lanier could not identify the
men.
In other area incidents involving
mobile homes, David Home, of
Country Fair Mobile Homes
reported last Monday that a trailer
was cleaned out before it was
repossessed.
Taken from the trailer were two
beds, a washer and dryer, tables
and a dinette set, according to
reports.
The materials are valued at
S2.125, reports say.
No warrants have been issued on
the former occupant of the trailer.
Nina Ruth Ray reported that a
rental trailer owned by her was
robbed on June 8.
A warrant has been issued on
Nigel Baldwin, the occupant of the
trailer, for felonious possession of
stolen property, according to
reports.
Baldwin now lives at Lot 2,
Hart's Mobile Home Park,
according to reports.
Confiscated from Baldwin's
trailer was a couch, two chairs,
two end tables and a coffee table,
reports say.
The furniture belongs to Ray,
reports say.
De Larry McLean, of 923 North
Jackson Street was arrested by the
Raeford Police Department and
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon inflicting serious injury,
according to Police Chief Leonard
Wiggins.
McLean was charged after Neil
R. McLean was found in the
garage area of his house with a
stab wound, Wiggins said.
Police were alerted by a
neighbor, Wiggins said.
Neil McLean was taken to Cape
Fear Valley Medical Center, the
chief added.
Last Saturday James Edward
Daniels reported his 1963 General
Motors pick-up stolen from his
yard, according to Wiggins.
The truck was found later that
day on the same street it was
reported missing from with the
battery missing, Wiggins said.
There were also small footprints
found around the truck, he said.
On June 16, Bobby Smith
reported a riding lawnmower miss
ing from his residence.
According to Wiggins, the
mower was valued at $1,000.
Drunk driving charge draws jail
Hoke County District Court
Judge Lacy Hair sentenced a Red
Springs man to a total of 61 days in
jail last Thursday after he was con
victed of driving while impaired
(DWI), driving with his license
revoked and aiding another person
to drive while impaired.
Willie M. McCall, 39, was ar
rested on January 20 and charged
with DWI, eluding arrest and driv
ing with his license revoked,
according to court records.
McCall was sentenced to two
years suspended for five years
supervised probation and an active
sentence of 60 days on those
charges, records say.
The extra day was given him
after being convicted of aiding
Steven Aldon McLaughlin to drive
while impaired, records say.
McCall was arrested on that
charge on March 2, according to a
citation issued him.
The man was sentenced to 24
hours in jail.
Jewel Wayne McEachin, of
Fayetteville, wj*s also convicted of
DWI, according to records.
The 27-year-old McEachin was
sentenced to 12 months suspended
for two years on supervised proba
tion and placed in jail for 14 days
for DWI and driving with his
license revoked, records say.
According to court records,
McEachin was arrested on May 12.
A Pembroke resident, Fermon
Lee McNeill, was also convicted of
DWI and driving with his license
revoked, according to records.
McNeill, 49, was sentenced to 12
months suspended for three years
on special supervised probation
and fined $500, records say.
McNeill was also ordered to
spend 21 days in jail.
Mack Ray Williams, a Ft. Bragg
resident, was sentenced to 60 days
suspended for one year
ansuperviaed probation, 24 hours
fai jail aad fined S100 after being
eomrkmd of DWI, records say.
Wtfflssni, 27, was arrested and
Aarged oo April 27, according to
Bayne Franklin Starnes, 62, an
Aberdeen resident, was sentenced
to six months suspended for three
years on supervised probation and
fined $500 after being convicted of
DWI on January 3, court records
say.
Jeannette Shaw Pittman, a resi
dent of Pinehurst, was sentenced
to 60 days suspended for one year
unsupervised probation and fined
$100 after a DWI conviction, ac
cording to records.
The 64-year-old Pittman was ar
rested and charged on February
26, records say.
In other court action, William
Hulett, of Shannon, was sentenced
to 60 days in jail after not paying a
$150 fine, according to records.
On February 15, Hulett was
given a suspended sentence and
ordered to pay $150 in restitution
for bad checks he had written.
The man failed to pay, say
records.
Credit was given the man for 14
days in jail.
Charles Edward Scott, of
Raeford, was given a 30 day
suspended sentence after being
convicted of assaulting a woman,
records say.
According to a warrant for
Cox's arrest, the man hit Alberta
Cox.
The 36-year-old man was
ordered to pay $99.50 in restitu
tion, records say.
A Raeford man, Norman
McMillian, was convicted of trying
to sell a stereo, bunk beds, a car
stereo and a television that belong
ed to Heilig Myers, court records
show.
A warrant was drawn on the
man on October 26, 1983.
McMillian was sentenced to 90
days suspended for a fine of SI 50,
according to records.
Elroy Douglas, a 19-year-old
Raeford man, was sentenced to 90
days suspended for 190 restitution
after being convicted of stealing
Robert Campbell's car batter,
records say.
A Red Springs man, George
Hollingsworth, was given a 30 day
suspended sentence after being
convicted of writing a number of
worthless checks, records say.
On April 26, Hollingsworth
bounced one to Highland
Distributers Co., Inc., records say.
For that charge, the man was
sentenced to 30 days suspended
and ordered to pay $60 in restitu
tion.
In cases that were consolidated
for judgement, Hollingsworth was
ordered to pay $429 in restitution
to Atlas Distributing, Southern
Distributing and Smithson
Beverage Co., records say.
Lizzie K. McPherson, a Red
Springs resident, was ordered to
pay $200 in restitution to A&J Ser
vice in Raeford after being con
victed of writing a bad check.
...Kidnapping
(Continued from page 1A)
When Johnson's ordeal was
over, the man drove to a store and
called Mt. Airy officials, he said.
Detective Riley has had warrants
drawn on the youth charging him
with kidnapping, second degree
burglary and larceny of a firearm.
A charge has also been drawn
for escaping from prison, accord
ing to Riley.
Venable was in Sandhills
originally after being convicted of
two counts of breaking and enter
ing, according to Riley.
Correction
A rusted railroad track was in
correctly identified in a cutline in
last week's News-Journal as
belonging to the Aberdeen and
Rock fish Railroad. The track was
actually a little used spur of the
Laurinburg and Southern
Railroad. We regret the error.
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