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mm 'Buddy' To Aid Brunswick Drug Eradication Effort BY RAHN ADAMS 1 he Bnitiswick County Sheriff’s Department has a new "Buddy" in its fif^ht a(>ainst drugs. According to Detective Sgt. David Crocker, head of the department’s drug .squad, Buddy is a narcotics dog that is being used throughout the county on drug sear ches. ‘The bigge.st thing it (the dog) will do is .save time on .searches and help in finding hiding places (for drugs),’’ Crocker said. “We’ve had to hand-search a house, working from one side of the house to the other. Now we know we’ve missed some places." The dog arrived Aug. 26 from a certified trainer in Fayetteville, after undergoing a six-week training pro gram, Crocker said. He added that Buddy was actually the fifth dog trained for Brunswick County, because the first four dogs failed their training programs. Crocker declined to identify Buddy’s breed and would not allow the dog or its handler to be photograph ed due to threats that have been made against the dog. “Before the dog even arrived," Crocker .said, "we picked up assassination plots.” As a result of those threats, the sheriff’s depart ment Ls having the dog insured. Buddy cost $2,000 and was paid for through private donations from “concerned individuals in the county.” The dog also will be u.sed to help lawmen search air ports, docks, vehicles and even schools for a range of drugs that include marijuana, cocaine, heroin and Quaaludes. "We want the school kids to be warned that we're coming," Crocker said, noting that the dog will be iLsed to search locker areas and parking lots at schools in Brunswick County. Though he wouldn’t identify the breed, Crocker said the sheriff’s department chose a dog that looks non- aggre.ssive so that .school children will not be afraid of it. But in law enforcement circle.s, dogs like Buddy are known as "agg.''®ssive response-trained narcotics dogs,” due to the manner in which they tip off their handlers to wh'rc hitiden dnigs arc located. ( r(Kker said. For example, if the dog found controlled substances in a .school locker, it would t>ccome agitated and paw the locker to point out the hiding place; for that rca.son. he added, the dog is not allowed to search people. The handler’s job is to tell the dog where to sniff, then to reward the dog for finding the drugs, he .said. ( rocker .said Buddy will also .save the drug .squad on inanjwwcr in .searches, since the only other person nel nece.s.sary are the dog handler and another lawmen to uncover the drugs. In contrast, eight persons generally are involved in house searches. Two Charged In Cocaine 'Sting' A Long Beach couple face cocaine charges after accepting a drug package delivered by undercover agents. Brunswick County Detective Sgt. David Crocker saiii the package con tained less than one-half ounce of co caine. Heyward Putnam, ■12, and Debra J. Belcher. 32, both of 212 Northeast 5-lth St., Long Beach, were taken into custody last Wednesday at their residence, noth were charged with felonious possession of cocaine and posse.ssion of drug paraphernalia. Crocker said an inspector at Purolator Courier in Miami, F|a., notified the Metro-Dade Narcotics Squad about a suspicious package addressed to Putnam and Belcher. After finding the cocaine, Metro- Dade repackaged the drugs and con tacted Brunswick County lawmen to set up the arrests. Crocker said agencies involved in the operation included the Brunswick County Drug Squad. Ung Beach Police and the New Hanover City- County Vice Squad. Crocker said he appreciated Purolator’s cooperation. Undercover agents, dressed as Purolator employees, delivered the drug package to Putnam and Belcher, and iiiade iiie arresls. A search of the suspects’ home also turned up 12 syringes. Long Beach Detective Battista Delia said, ac counting for the drug paraphernalia charges against the pair. Putnam and Belcher were released from the Brunswick County Jail on $2,000 cash bonds each, with court ap pearances set for Sept. 30. Teen Pleads Not Guilty A Brunswick County teenager, ac cused of killing one person and injur ing two others by driving a truck into a 1 .eland apartment in March, plead ed not guilty this week to charges that include murder and as.sault. Christopher Brian Ennis, 16, Mon day appeared before Judge Henry W. night Jr. in Brunswick County Superior Court in Bolivia. Tile youth i.s cliiirjjed with .sccontl- degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, unauthorized use of a conveyence and having no operator’s license. At the time of the March 17 inci dent, Ennis was 15; however, he will be tried as an adult. He is represented by Wilmington attorney Bruce H. Jackson Jr. The murder charge against Ennis stems from the death of William Guy Bondurant II, 21, of Shasta Park Apartments in I.eland. According to a report filed by Highway Patrol Trooper J.V. Dove. Bondurant died from multiple in juries after Ennis allcgediy rammed a 1986 CiMC pickup truck into the Mt. Misery Hoad residence. Ennis also is charged in the same wreck with assaulting two other oc cupants of the apartment: Brenda Smith, 19, and James Wagoner, 30. Ms. Smith and Wagoner were treated and released from New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilm ington following the incident. Man Faces Drug Charges The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department Monday arrested a Sup ply area man on drug charges. According to warrants on file in Bolivia, Janek Darwin Hewelt, 23, of Route 3, Supply, was charged with possession with intent to manufac ture, sell and deliver marijuana; and possession of drug paraphernalia. 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According to the indictment, the woman’s purse was stolen in the rob bery. The purse contained money and personal belongings valued at wG, the inuictmcrit said. Pigotte was taken into custody in Florida on .-Vug. 1 by Brunswick County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lindsey Walton and Shallotte Police Lt. Rodney Gause; the suspect initially was ar rested on an unrelated warrant for felonious larceny. Pigotte is being held in the Brunswick County Jail under a $176,000 total bond. for a second suspect. According to Capt. Phil Perry of the Brunswick County Sheriffs Department, the break-in was discovered around 1 a.m. Saturday at the Barbara Hollis residence on Lin coln Road. Perry said officers on routine patrol checked a .su.spicimis vehicle parked Ixthind a busine.ss near the Hollis residence. The officers then discovered that the home had been entered; .several firearms and other goods worth ap proximately $1.0(X) were stolen, he .said. 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