Shallotte Mother Is Accused Of Allowing Sex With Dauahten 12
a ^nallotte woman was indicted on three felony
charges last week for allegedly allowing someone to
have sexual intercourse with her 12-year-old daughter.
A Brunswick County Grand Jury agreed July 25
that investigators have enough evidence to prosecute
Dentse Cooper Minton, 37, of Oakwest Street, Green
bay Village, in superior court on three charges of felony
child abuse.
The indictments allege that Minton "did allow a
sexual act, sexual intercourse" upon a girl who was 12
years old.
"At the time the defendant committed the offense,
she was the parent of the child," the indictments say.
The incidents are alleged to have occurred in May
1992, January 1993 and on March 21, 1994.
Also indicted by the grand jury last week were:
? David Lyle Darst. 23, of Poplar Road, Southport,
on two charges of first degree rape of a child under the
age of 13. Both offenses, involving two young children,
are alleged to have occurred on May 31 in Boiling
Spring Lakes.
? Lonnie Wayne Gordon, 20, of Barclay Road,
Southport, on a charge of taking indecent liberties with
a child under the age of 16. The incident is alleged to
have occurred on May 31 in Boiling Spring Lakes.
? Robert Kent White, 33, of Charlotte on a charge
of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious in
jury. The indictment slates that on June 7, White "did
use a golf club, a deadly weapon, to assault and inflict
serious injury upon Charles H. Perry by beating him
about the head and body causing wounds requiring nu
merous stitches."
? James Lee Cobb, 31, of North Lord Street,
Southport, on one count each of robbery with a danger
ous weapon, breaking and entering and larceny. He is
accused of stealing less than $70 cash from a Southport
convenience store June 6 while threatening the use of a
handgun.
? Alex O'Hara King. 21, of Lads Road, Shallotte
on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting
serious injury. He is accused of using a 380-calibcr pis
tol to assault Joe Vercen "by shooting him in the but
tocks" last February.
? James Kevin Little, 22, of Wilmington on
charges of burning a building used for trade, breaking
and entering and larceny. He and another Wilmington
man are accused of breaking into Jimmy's Marine re
pair shop on Lee Drive, Leland. and stealing a motor
scooter, marine batteries and miscellaneous tools val
ued at about S3.000 on May 29. The two arc also
charged with setting fire to nearby Coots Marina on
Mount Misery Road, Leland, that night
? Henry Herbert Giles, 21, of Wilmington on one
count each of breaking and entering, larctny and burn
ing a building used for trade. He is accused in the same
offenses as Little.
? Gerald Lamar Yarb rough, also known as Doug
las Dabbs, 39, of Kilbart Street, Ocean Isle Beach, on a
charge of obtaining property by false pretense. He is ac
cused of using a check drawn on a closed account to
open a new account at a Shallotte Bank "with the intent
to cheat and defraud" by attempting to obtain $1,000
from the bank.
? David Wayne Brown, 33, of Kure Beach, on a
felony worthless check charge for allegedly writing a
check for SI 8,000 to a Shallotte lumber company,
knowing that the account did not have enough funds to
cover the check.
? Gary Wade Robbins, 33, of Old Mill Creek
Road, Winnabow. on one count each of cocaine posses
sion, maintaining a dwelling to keep and sell controlled
substances and maintaining a vehicle to keep and sell
controlled substances.
? William Alfred Alston, 33, of Park Ave, Navassa
on one count each of cocaine possession, sale and de
livery of cocaine and possession with the intent to sell
and deliver cocaine.
? Rebecca Cobb Seal, 29, of Wood! awn Mobile
Home Park, Leland, on one count each of welfare
fraud, food stamp fraud and medical assistance recipi
ent fraud. She is accused of knowingly giving false in
formation on applications for benefits, saying her three
children were living with her on Jan. 20, 1993, when in
fact they had been admitted to an orphanage the previ
ous October.
? Claudie David Cook, 37, of Castle Hayne on a
charge of cocaine possession.
? W>?iam David Anderson, 34, of Wimberly
Road, jouthport, on a charge of cocaine possession.
Robert Keith Cooper, 33, of Green Oak Camp
rjound. Supply, on one count each of manufacturing
marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia He is
accused of "growing one marijuana plant in a pot" and
possessing a bong, hemostats and roiling papers.
OIB Man Slashed, Another Arrested In Seaside Bar Fiaht
One Ocean Isle Beach man was
slashed with a razor knife and a sec
ond was arrested after a disagreement
between friends turned violent at a
Seaside bar Friday night, according a
crime report on file at the Brunswick
County Sheriff's Department.
The victim, 51 -year-old Richard
Paul Little of Sommersett Road, suf
fered a cut on his back that required
19 surgical stables to close, accord
ing to BCSD Detective Steve Ma
son, who investigated the case.
Little also received a serious cut on
his arm in the attack.
Deputy Cathy Hamilton reported
being called to the bar and grill on
N.C.179 at about 9:30 p.m. In an in
terview with the victim. Little re
portedly told her that he had re
ceived a threatening telephone call
from his friend Otis Ray Stephens
Jr. and agreed to meet him at the bar
to talk. Once there. Little asked
Stephens to step outside, the report
said.
"When they started out the door,
the suspect pulled out a box cutter
CRIME REPORT
and cut Mr. Little on the right shoul
der blade and right arm," Hamilton
reported.
Mason said his investigation of
the incident revealed that the two
men had been having a "serious on
going dispute over a business trans
action" that led to the assault Friday
night.
Stephens, 49, who lives on Water
loo Street in the Water Wonderland
subdivision, was charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon inflict
ing serious injury. He was jailed in
lieu of a $3,000 secured bond.
An investigation into the incident
is continuing. Mason said.
In other crime reports on file at
the sheriff's office Monday:
? A man and woman who live on
Green Hill Road, Winnabow. were
charged with arson of a mobile
home on nearby Dogwood Street
last week. Valerie Anne Burchetto,
25, and Richard Glen Kuhn, 29,
were arrested Thursday. They are
accused of setting (ire to a trailer oc
cupied by a man, two women and a
7-month-old child. The two suspects
were put in Brunswick County Jail
under a $10,000 secured bond each.
? More than $18,000 cash was
repotted stolen from a beach shop
on Holden Beach Road, Supply,
Wednesday afternoon (July 31). The
store owner reportedly told Deputy
Jerry Gray that he "had put his mon
ey in a drawer at the front desk in a
cloth money bag with a lock." He
believes that someone entered the
business through a rear door, went
into the office and took the bank bag
sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 4
p.m. Also missing was a battery, a
charger and a package of Vantage
cigarettes, the report said.
? An $11,000 1993 Fold
Mustang was reported stolen from
outside a Leland game room late
Tuesday night. Deputy Mark Snow
den met with the complainant, a 21
year-old Leland man, the next morn
ing and was told that he went into
the store at the corner of Mt. Misery
Road and Fletcher Drive at about 8
p.m. to play pool. When he came
out at about 1:30 a.m., the car was
gone. He told Snowden that the ve
hicle was unlocked but the keys
were in his pocket.
? More than $1,300 worth of
jewelry and other items were stolen
during an apparent break-in on
Warren Landing Road in Fisher
man's Village sometime in the past
six weeks. A 38-year-old construc
tion worker told Deputy Lewis Ward
that there didn't seem to be any sign
of forced entry. Missing was an
onyx ring, a 20-inch gold chain, 20
Susan B. Anthony dollars, a 1926
half-dollar, a "Gold's Gym" workout
video and a tape of the movie
"Dracula," the report said.
? Two marine batteries were sto
len from a storage shed adjacent to a
home on Jolly Roger Drive in Buc
caneer Hills last week. The Lumber
ton man who owns the trailer told
Deputy Ward that he returned Friday
night to discover that two locks had
Suspects Charged With Stealina Coins From Car Wash
BY DOUG RUTTER
Shallotte Policc have arrested
four people who allegedly tied a
laminated dollar bill to the end of a
string in order to steal coins from
the change machine at an automatic
car wash.
Charged with one count each of
breaking into a coin or currency ma
chine are Lauri Jean Arlington, 18,
of Supply; Jamie Marlowe, 19, of
Supply; Dwayne Edward Freeman,
28, of Shallotte; and Frank Zcbulun
Ballew, 21, of Shallotte.
"They were all involved togeth
er," Police Chief Rodney Gause
said. "One would be lookout, anoth
er would be getting the coins and the
other two would be around the vehi
cle looking out."
Gause said an eyewitness saw the
suspects taking money from the
change machine at Shallotte Auto
Spa on Holden Beach Road on July
12. The witness wrote down the li
cense plate number and description
of the vehicle.
"We had an eyewitness that saw
them do this," Gause said. "If it
hadn't been for this person we
would still be looking for them."
Gause said the suspects later told
police they had been stealing from
coin machines elsewhere in the
county and state, also in Georgia
and Florida.
"They were bragging about doing
it until the light came on. That
meant the machine was empty,"
Cause said. "Sometimes they would
get up to S300. This is something
that was going on not just in Shal
lotte but all over the county."
Cause said the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department is investigat
ing and may file additional charges.
"There is another suspect but we
have not questioned him yet We
have not been able to locate him,"
Gause added.
The four suspects who were ar
rested are being held in Brunswick
County Jail, each under $1,000 se
cured bond.
Thomasboro Man Arrested
A Thomasboro man remained in
Brunswick County Jail under a
$25,500 secured bond Tuesday after
his arrest in connection with several
recent cases of breaking and enter
ing.
Gause said police have charged
Charles Edward Stanley, 30, of No.
5 School house Road with four
counts of breaking and entering a
motor vehicle and larceny, two
counts of breaking and entering and
larceny and one count of larceny of
a firearm.
Arrested Monday, Stanley is ac
cused of breaking into four vehicles
parked outside three Shallotte busi
nesses in a two-week period last
month.
Vehicles were broken into July S
at Heilig Meyers Furniture Comp
any and July 16 at Mirrorlite. Two
vehicles were unlawfully entered
July 19 at Coastal Drug, and a fire
arm was taken from one of those ve
hicles.
Gause said the suspect also is ac
cused of a July 8 break-in at the
Subway restaurant and another
break-in four days later at The Cove
nursing home.
Gause said police had two war
rants for Stanley's arrest when he
was picked up, and the suspect was
charged with the additional crimes
after questioning.
The county sheriff's department is
investigating Stanley's possible con
nection with at least two other
crimes that occurred in the county
within the past two weeks, Gause
said.
Drug Charges Filed
Two Shallotte area men were
charged with possession of cocaine
after police stopped and searched a
vehicle last Friday on N.C. 179 near
Calvary Baptist Church.
James Nelson Hill. 27, and Ken
neth Hill, 36, were charged with one
count of each of possession of co
caine, Gause said. Kenneth Hill also
was charged with maintaining a ve
hicle for the purpose of distributing
cocaine.
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After getting permission to search
the vehicle, Gause said police found
approximately $400 worth of crack
cocaine, mirrors and razor blades.
Both men were jailed under
$5,000 secured bond, Gause said.
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been removed from the shed, proba
bly with bolt cutters. Ward estimated
the value of stolen property at SI 35.
? Someone stole a homemade 12
foot wooden skiff from a boat ramp
off Shell Point Road recently. The
owner, who lives off Seashore Road,
told Deputy Ward that he was re
cently hospitalized for 11 days and
returned home Friday to discover
that his boat was missing. It was val
ued at about $150.
? A 70-year-old Calabash retiree
reported the theft of 12 T-shirts from
his home on Ocean Forest Drive last
week. He told Deputy Richard Long
that someone apparently came in
through a kitchen window, took the
shirts and went out through a side
door. The stolen property was val
ued at $48. Damage was estimated
to be $150.
? The owner of a mobile home in
the Gator's Grant subdivision. Sup
ply, was unsure if anything was tak
en in an apparent break-in that
caused an estimated S400 damage to
his summer residence late last
month. He told Deputy Hamilton
that he arrived at the trailer Friday to
find that someone had removed a
sliding glass door from its frame.
However, "he advises that his wife
may have had this done," Hamilton
reported. Although some items were
missing, the report said the man
"will let us know if he finds out that
she didn't do this."
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