Coast Guard Aids Nine People From Two Boats In Distress On The Cape Fear Nine people were transported to safety by vessels from the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Oak Island last week in two incidents involving pleasure boats operating in the Cape Fear River. According to a report from Sta tion Chief BMCS J.D. Arndt, the first of the two calls came in at about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 20 from a boat reporting itself aground near river buoy number 37. Determining that the situation was not immediately life-threaten ing, the station first issued a Marine Assistance Radio Broadcast (MARB) to determine if any com mercial salvors or private vessels were available to help the boat. The station also launched its 21 foot inflatable fast-response boat be cause there was a report of people on the bank of the river. Arndt said. When the boat arrived, the crew found the stricken vessel washed up on the beach with all eight passen gers safe on shore. Coast Guard personnel took six of the people on board and transported them to the nearest safe haver, at Carolina Beach State Park marina, where they planned to get further as sistance, said Arndt. On Feb. 23 at about 5 p.m., the station was called hy a private citi zen reporting a vessel adrift in the Cape Fear River near Walden Creek. The caller said there were three peo ple on board waving orange life jackets in apparent distress. The station launched its 21-footer, which arrived a short time later to fiuu a 24-fooi pieasuie boat disabled and adrift with three persons aboard. A MARB was not issued because the vessel had no radio, Arndt said. Instead, the 21-footer towed the vessel to the Southport Boat Basin, the nearest safe haven, where all nelsons were s;tft*lv nut ashore. On Feb. 25 at about 7:30 a.m. the station was notified by the New Hanover County Sheriff's Depart ment that a 17-foot boat was adrift just south of the Wilmington State Ports with no one on board. The boat was eventually found 1.5 miles north of Snows Cut, off the Cape Fear River. It appeared to have been hot-wired and stripped of all equipment, the sheriff's depart ment reported. Winnabow VFD Serves Barbecue Winnabow Volunteer Fire De partment will serve barbecue on Saturday, March 5, from 11 a.m. un til 5 p.m. Plates will consist of pork barbe cue, potato salad, coleslaw and hush puppies. Cost will be $3, or $4.50 for a "super plate." The department is on Governor's Road off U.S. 17 in Winnabow. Tutor Training Slated Soldier Bay Baptist Church in Ash will be the site of a free tutor training workshop March 18 and 19, sponsored by the Brunswick County Literacy Council. The workshop will take place from 6-^:30 Friday, March IS, and from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, March 19. The church is on N.C. 130 at the caution light in Ash. Participants will cam their Laubach tutor certification and will be able to work one-on-one with someone who wants to improve his or her reading and writing skills. Workshop participants must pack a lunch for the Saturday session. Beverages and snacks will be pro vided by the Literacy Council. To pre-register, call the Literacy Council office at 754-7323. Man Who Abducted Daughter Surrenders Following Standoff Sheriff's deputies were hiding in child did not appear to be in any the woods within a few feet of a danger, except for the cold." man who had reportedly kidnapped Robinson said he could hear the his baby daughter early Saturday father, Mark Berlin Koon, 28, morning when he finally agreed to yelling from the woods when he ar surrender after a three-hour standoff. rived at the scene. "We were in position and waiting Hostage negotiator Lt. David for the signal to jump him. But we Crocker arrived a short time later wanted to make sure the little girl and began trying to talk Koon out of didn't get hurt," said Detective Mike the woods. Crocker kept up a con Speck, head of the sheriff's depart- versation with Koon for more than menl emergency response team. two hours, allowing the other The girl's mother called 911 at deputies to pinpoint his location and about 2:45 a.m. to report that the 21- close in around him. month-old girl's father had taken the The team had been given the go toddler and run into the woods out- ahead to retrieve the child and sub side her trailer in the Churchill due Koon when he agreed to come Mobile Home Park at Village Point, out voluntarily. Perry said. Neither The child was dressed in only a dia- Koon nor the child was hurt in the per and T-shirt, according to Deputy incident. Randy Robinson's incident report. 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BCSD Answers More Than 250 Domestic Culls Dunny January Brunswick County Sheriff's Dc- Deputies served 287 civil papers and partment deputies answered 257 do- summoned 283 witnesses. Ten men mestic disturbance calls in January, tal and inebriate papers were served, an average of more than eight per along with 227 local warrants, day. according to a monthly officers' Morc than H725() milcs were activity report released by Sheriff , ^ including ,4 ,nps ou| of ,he John C arr Davis. county. The department used 6,475 Deputies and detectives made 17 ?ons of ,ine arrests as prosecuting witness last month. There were 345 investiga- Sheriff's personnel spent two off tions made. Deputies found nine duty hours in court and 50 on-duty doors or windows open while on pa- hours. There were 36 crime preven trol during the month, the report tion meetings held in January. said. No report was given for narcotics Approximately $15.089 worth of division activities, courtroom hours stolen property was recovered, or the monthly jail population. RECEIVED $4.000 FROM CLAIM Holden Beach Man Arrested On Insurance Fraud Charge One man faces fraud chargcs and more arrests are possible in an insur ance scam allegedly perpetrated by an Elizabethtown man currently liv ing near Holdcn Beach, a Brunswick County sheriff's detective said Mon day. Rodney Dale Britt, 25, has been charged with one count each of forg ing a certificate of title, obtaining property by false pretense, posses sion of stolen goods and failure to appear in court. He is also likely to face a charge of resisting arrest. De tective C'apt. Phil Perry said. Britt allegedly used another man's birth certificate and Social Security card to obtain a driver's license bearing his picture and another name. Perry said. The false identifi cation was then allegedly used to obtain financing to buy a 1W7 Oldsmobile from a Wilmington car dealer. Last October, Britt allegedly re ported the car stolen from the park ing lot of a Wilmington department store. Perry said. Six weeks later it was found burned to a total loss in Horry County, S.C. Britt is believed to have filed an insurance claim for which he was paid $4,(MX). "'Hie National Insurance Crime Bureau was called in after some foody smelleil a rat." Perry said. Meanwhile, Perry said he was in vestigating a complaint from a man who said Britt sold him a recreation al vehicle that turned out to he stolen. That inquiry intersected with the insurance fraud investigation and eventually led to Britt's arrest. An investigation is continuing in to these cases and others from else where in the state that may foe relat ed. Perry said. ITiere is a possihility that other local people will he charged in the incidents, he said. 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