Brick-Tossing Vandals Disrupt Community
BYIKRRY POPK
Twcnly-onc mailboxes and a
business sign in the Holdcn Beach
area were damaged Saturday night
by vandals who rode through the
neighborhood and tossed bricks
from an automobile.
The Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department is l(x>king for some sol
id evidence that can lead to an ar
rest.
"We're hoping that someone saw
something," said Chief of Detectives
Phil Perry.
Information reported to the
Sheriff's Department will be kept in
confidence. Perry said.
A business sign at the Mirage
nightclub on N.C. 130 sustained die
most damage, $300, from a Hying
brick sometime late Saturday, re
ported Deputy Charles Crocker.
Crocker said 2 1 residents reported
their mailboxes were struck by
bricks during the same night ? along
Seashore Road, Stanley Road,
Boonesneck Road, Turkey Trap
Road, Holdcn Beach Road and
Buccaneer Hills Road. Damage av
eraged S20 to each mailbox.
In other reports on file at the
CRIME REPORT
Sheriff's Department:
?Vandals tampered with two drink
machines at the Du Pont company in
Lclund Sunday, reported IX'puty
Robert Allen. Damage was not listed.
?Meciric saws valued at $2X0 were
stolen from a home on f)ccan Pines
Drive at Shallotte Point Saturday al
ter someone broke through a rear
door, reported Deputy Dairy!
Mar low .
?A pocketbook taken from a car at
Freeman's Club on Mulberry Street
in Shallotte was lound three hours
later at the victim's ex -boyfriend's
home in Thomasboro, reported
Deputy Patti Hewctt. The victim, ol
Longs, S.C., said the pocketb<x>k and
its contents, valued at $102, were
stolen around 1:25 a.m. Monday.
?A Longwixnl resident had a jar ol
coins, watch, jewelry, camera and
checkb<H)k stolen from his home
Friday, reported Deputy Phil Bryant.
The suspect entered through a
kitchen window.
?An Ash man told Deputy J.M.
Adams that a shotgun stolen from
his home between Nov. 20 anl IX'c.
15 hail been spotted at a Shal lotto
|tawn shop. Rtc owner received a lip
that the . 12-gauge shotgun, valued at
SI 25, had been pawned by the
thieves, who broke through a win
dow to enter his mobile home,
?liurglars entered two tars parked
at the New World Club on Saw Mill
Road in the Northwest community
Sunday, reported iXputy Robert
Allen. A pockclbook containing S75
was taken trom one car. Another car
was missing $300 m cash ami dam
age was listed at $1,000. Thieves
broke a lock to enter the trunk.
?Items worth $462 were stolen I mm
a car in the Wilson's parking lot at
Clairmont Pla/a in I. eland Saturday,
reported Deputy Richard DuVall.
Two coals, blue jeans, nightgown,
shorts, wallet, jewelry and 10
Christinas pins were stolen.
Also, a 1W4 Grand I'rix owned
by an Olde Townc resident was
stolen from the same parking lot
Sunday, reported Deputy Steve
Mason.
?A 19X2 Buick, valued at $3,000,
was stolen from a home on Hark
Avenue in Navassa late Friday, re
ported Du Vail.
?Burglars look $25,160 in bank
notes, cash and collector's coins
from a Baldwin Estates home in
Leland Sunday, reported Deputy
William Hewett. Also taken was a
marriage certificate, birth certificate
and insurance papers. Damage was
listed at SMI.
? I wo shotguns were stolen Irom
automobiles parked at the Maco
Truck Stop Kesuiurant Friday. Ihe
,12-gauge shotguns were valued at
S400 and X > respectively. Deputy
DuVal I reported.
?A Picket Bulge home hi l eland
sustained S2M) in damage while
$550 in items are missing. re|x>rted
Hewett. A television, stereo and
candle holder were stolen.
? A Hemingway, S.C.. resident told
Sgt. Carl Pearson that someone stole
a ,30H-caliher rille. valued at S4I<>.
Irom him at a Ilea market on 1 one
Beach Koad last week.
?Thieves removed an air condition
er from a window at Sonja's Grill on
U.S. 17 in Supply to break inside,
reported Crocker. Damage was list
ed at S'XK) while SXO in cigarettes
and SMX) in change were stolen.
COUNTY STORE MAKING IMPACT
Shallotte ABC Profits Fall 68 Percent
Shallouc ABC store's net profits
fell by 68 percent during the 1990
91 fiscal year.
| But the loss isn't attributed to a
" local decline in alcohol use.
It's the first time state figures arc
available to compare what impact
Brunswick County's new ABC store
on Holdcn Beach Road (N.C. 130)
has had on local municipal ABC
board sales over a full 12 months ol
operation.
Brunswick County's first store,
which opened in the fall of 19X9,
was not included in the annual rev
enue report for North Carolina ABC
Boards last year.
However, figures released last
week show the county store cleared
a 3.6 percent sales profit from June
30, 1990, to July 1. 1991, while its
net profit was S16.144.
Net profits at the Shalloltc ABC
store fell from S93.100 in 1989-90
to just S30.47 1 in 1990-91, a drop of
68 percent. The store's sales profits
fell from 10.97 percent to 5.47 per
cent over lite same period.
Shallotlc's store was the only one
in the county that recorded a drop in
net profits for the fiscal year. All
other stores showed improvements
in both net profits and volume sold
over the previous year.
The Shallottc store sold 94,946
total bottles of liquor in 1989-90,
but that figure dropped last year to
62,551 bottles.
Long Beach, Yaupon Beach and
Southport ABC Boards protested
when the county attempted to place
a store on Long Beach Road earlier
this year. A special bill was passed
by legislators preventing county
ABC stores from building within
seven miles of an existing store.
Municipalities, fearing a drop in
profits, also met with the Brunswick
County ABC Board to discuss a
possible merger, hut the matter re
mains unresolved.
Overall, sales of alcoholic bever
ages were up for the period, with the
nine municipal and one county store
clearing S395.330 in net profits alter
distributions to law enforcement
agencies and for alcohol education
anil research.
The 10 ABC boards sold 4X0.943
regular-sized bottles of liquor, the
equivalent of 1,317 bottles per day.
during the fiscal year that ended in
ABC
BOARD
Bclville
Boiling Spring Lakes
Brunswick County
Calabash
Long Bcach
Ocean Isle Bcach
Shall otto
Southport
Sunset Bcach
Yaupon Bcach
% SALES
PROFIT
9.57
6.0
3.6
8.58
8.1S
10.09
5.47
12.67
6.19
8.97
NKT
PROFIT
S62.18*
8.944
16,144
49.879
44.376
50,506
30,471
75.429
23.451
33,947
LOCAL
DIST.
S62.183
19,076
44,376
4 1 .446
75,<>0<>
75,429
3.595
27,158
June. During the previous year.
447,706 bottles were sold in
Brunswick County.
The stores also sold an additional
49.238 bottles ol liquor for mixed
beverages, compared to 35,788 the
previous year. Mini-bottles contin
ued to gain in popularity since their
introduction in 1989 with 102,741
bottles sold compared to 90.756 the
previous year.
Belville's ABC store posted the
largest volume ol sales, including
80,497 regular bottles and 19.918
mini-bottles. Southport's ABC store
posted the greatest percentage protn
on sales at 1 2.67 percent.
Ai the opposite etui ol the spec
trum. the Boiling Spring Lakes ABC
store netted the fewest sales, with
ju-4 16.650 bottles sold, a 6 percent
profit on sales and net profits of
SN.(U4.
Distributions ol profits by local
ABC boards are used to sup(*>rt lo
cal sch(X)ls. lire and rescue units,
police departments and other civic
purposes as designated in the
boards' enabling legislation.
The area's 10 municipal and
county ABC boards, their percent
profit, net profit and local distribu
tion for the year are shown in the re
lated chart.
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Man Arrested On Rape Charge
A Calabash area man remained in
the Brunswick County Jail under
S1(X),(XX) bond Monday alter having
been charged with first-degree rape.
Louis Ash, 23, of Pinecrest suixli
vision, is accused of forcing his way
into a woman's home in Calabash
where she was allegedly raped, re
ported Brunswick County Sheriff's
Detective Nancy Simpson.
According to Deputy Phil
Bryant's report, the suspect alleged
ly told the woman that his car was
on fire and asked if he could come
inside her home to use the tele
phone.
After telling the suspect that she
did not have a phone and that her
husband was asleep, he allegedly
forced his way into the home, struck
it to victim several times, threw her
on the llcxir and raped her, Bryant
reported.
The suspect allegedly told the vic
tim that he had been paid to rape
her, Bryant reported, and that if site
told anyone she would be killed.
The victim was hit several times
and bitten on the right arm in the in
cident. Bryant reported.
Ms. Simpson said the case is still
under investigation.
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