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Thief Snatches Money From casn Register In South oort Someone slipped into a discount department store in Southport before it opened Sunday morning and snatched a handful of bills from the cash register, according to an inci dent report filed with the Brunswick County Sheriffs Department The manager of the Maxway store at Live Oak Shopping Center told Deputy Rebekah McDonald that she arrived to open the store at about 9:45 a.m. She put S50 in one cash register anu ?> id eacn in two others. Then she went upstairs to the office at the back of the store, the report said. The manager told McDonald she nad ieft the exit door open for other employees to enter the store. At about 10:45 a.m. a cashier ar rived. When she opened one of the registers, she found S50 worth of 55 and S10 bills missing. The change had been left behind. McDonald's report said the thief apparently used the register's trip switch to open the cash drawer. CRIME REPORT In other law enforcement reports filed this week: ?A 1990 Hyundai Sonata was stolen from a home behind the old Mintz Chevrolet dealership in Bol ivia sometime Saturday night or Sunday, according to Deputy Char les Wilson. The car later was found in a ditch off Thomasboro Road. Wilson estimated the value of the vehicle at $9,500. ?Deputy R.W. Long reported that an estimated $685 worth of tools were stolen from a rental unit owned by T & T Development of Occan Isle Beach. It appeared that someone had picked the lock of the unit, the report said. ?Someone stole a red Honda 250 four-wheel recreational vehicle from the yard of a mobile home on U.S. 74-76 in Leland late Thursclay night or Friday morning, according to Deputy Brian L. Saunders. The homeowner said he last saw his One driver was charged and three passe ngcis in his car were injured in a two-vehicle wreck in Shallottc Tuesday afternoon. Luke Allen Upchurch, 20, of Shallotte was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after crashing into the rear of a car driven by Manniel Wayne Evans, 44, of Supply, according to police. Both men were driving west on N.C. 130 at about 5 p.m when Evans stopped to make a left turn onto Gray Bridge Road. Upchurch was unaoic to stop in time to avoid skidding into the right rear fender of Evans* car, according to B.D. Barnhardt of the N.C. Highway Patrol. Angela Upchurch, 22, a passenger in the front seat of h<*r husband's car, was taken ?x> The Brur.sv/ick Hospital . wi|h , Class B injuries. Barnhardt said. Two other passengers in the Upchurch vehicle, Annette Sim mons, age unavailable, and Jessica Upchurch, 4, sustained minor in juries. Another unidentified child, who was secured in a restraining seat, was unhurt in the wreck, Barnhardt said. Evans was not injured, the trooper TUESDAY AFTERNOON One Chargecf,Three Injured In Car Wreck At Shallotte said. There was an estimated $1,000 damage to Upchurch's 1981 Chevr olet Chevette, which was a total loss, Barnhardt said. He estimated $800 to $1,000 damage to Evans' 1978 Ford. Calabash EMS Took 44 Calls Calabash Volunteer Emergency Medical Service* reported that the squad answered 44 calls during May, according to Chief Mark Christy. Volunteers worked a total of 151 man hours and travelled 1,701 miles, Christy told the E.M.S. Board of Directors at its June 18 meeting. Sixteen of the calls were from Calabash. Eight were from Sunset Beach and 20 were from elsewhere, Christy said. The board voted to purchase an automatic blood pressure machine to be used when transporting patients. A cellular phone has been in stalled in the new ambulance, Chris ty reported. Money for the unit was provided by the Ed Bock Memorial Fund. From Milliken's .v. t\\V- Home Center I I\ 1\ Hwy. 17, The Shallotte Electric Stores, Shallotte Cut your paint preparation time drastically! ?Cleans roofs, I sidewalks, boats | & more, j Easy To Use. I Call 754-6000 i Reg. $49.95 per day. Deposit Hequired Also for Rent 32 Ft. extension ladders for high spots Pressure Washer Rentals July Special $QQ95* dav GARY D. ROSS, M.D. and SAMUEL W. KIRTLEY, M.D. SOUTH BRUNSWICK MEDICAL GROUP have now opened their new outpatient medical and urgent care practice In the South Brunswick Islands Medical Park at Union School Road and Highway 17 (former BIMA location). HOURS: 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. (M-F) 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. (SAT.) FOR MORE INFORMATION and APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING CALL 573-9955 C199? THE BftUNSWICK BEACON son's four-wheeler at about 9:30 p.m. When he got up to go fishing the next morning, the vehicle was gone, S a tinders reported. The thief or thieves apparently pushed it to the road and loaded it onto another vehi cle, the report said The Honda was valued at S700. ?Wilson reported that someone drove through a barricade on Gallo way Road off U.S. 17 in Bolivia, causine an estimated $4,000 to S5.000 damage. ?A thief or thieves caused SI, 500 damage and stole S40 worth of cas sette tapes during a breaking and en tering and larceny on McMilly CK?IU>m .1.. I ? ? vv/mvi , uiiui iuuv, iwviiujr, lAfiig IW ported. A woman told Long that someone came in through the back window of her mobile home and cut up her clothing and damaged the wires to her stereo and air condition er. Fifteen cassette tapes were also reported missing. ?Long reported that a person or per B sons recently smashed a window of a uiobiie home on N'urlliwiiid Drive, Ocean Isle Bcach, causing an esti mated $500 damage. The homeown er said someone apparently used a beer bottle from a nearby trash can to cause the damage. ?Deputy Cathy Hamilton filed a re port that said a white 1988 Mercury Topaz was stolen from the parking lot of a Roses department store in South no rt Fridav niohi No value es timate was listed. ?Police in Greenville, S.C., recently arrested a man believed to have stolen two credit cards from a resi dence on Star Cross Street, Route 6, SiuiuisLtC, sometime in the past eight months. Long reported. The home owner toid police he realized the cards were stolen after receiving a bill for $437 in unauthorized pur chases. The suspect was picked up after he reportedly tried to use one of the cards to charge a $100 hotel room in Greenville. Announcing an additional service... Alarm Monitoring & Response Services As low as $10. Call now to get this low price. Services backed by $100,000 general liability insurance policy. Armed or Unarmed Response Capability Dependable ? 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