Woman Fires A Shot At Man Who
Entered Her Home
/\ 33-year-old Supply woman
used a gun to scare off a man who
broke into her home on Sabbath
Home Road Sunday morning, ac
cording to a crime report on file at
the Brunswick County Sheriff" s
Department.
The woman told Deputy Sgt.
Charles Wilson that she was home
alone at about 5 a.m. when she
heard dogs barking and got up to in
vestigate. As she was walking to
ward the front door she was startled
by the intruder and ran back to her
couch to fetch her gun.
"She told the subject she was go
ing to shoot him,"* Wilson's report
said. "At this time the subject left
running and as he jumped off the
porch, she fired one shot."
The woman said she chased after
the man. who ran to the road and
drove off in a dark-colored pickup
truck. She then got into her own ve
hicle and gave chase, "but lost him,"
the report said.
In other crime reports:
? More than S5.200 worth of jew
elry was stolen from a woman's
pocketbook while she and some
friends were celebrating the birth of
her granddaughter recently. The vic
tim told Deputy Cathy Hamilton that
the jewelry was wrapped in a paper
towel placed inside her purse in the
bedroom of her mobile home on Sun
fish Street in the Holiday Ranches
sutMivision ot supply Missing was a
wedding ring set, a diamond and sap
phire ring and a diamond cocktail
ring. A suspect was identified.
? A 15 -horsepower Evinrude out
CRIME REPORT
board motor was stolen off the back
of a boat parked on a trailer behind a
mobile home on Riverview Drive
sometime in the past two weeks.
The Durham man who owns the
home told Deputy Sheldon Caison
that he discovered the motor missing
when he returned Sunday morning.
It was valued at $1, 840.
? Someone apparently rode off
with a motor bike owned by a friend
of a man who lives on Shallotte
Point Loop Road Friday. The man
told Deputy Malcolm Long that his
friend's son had the vehicle parked
outside his home when it was re
moved "without permission." The
50cc red Tomos motor bike was es
timated to be worth about $ 1,300.
? Two air conditioners and a
miter box valued at a total of $67S
were stolen from a summer home on
John D. Robinson Road in the Holi
day Haven subdivision of Supply re
cently. Deputy Malcolm Long was
told by the owner that someone
forced their way in through a rear
window and removed both air con
ditioning units from two other win
dows. A neighbor gave a description
of a vehicle seen in the area at the
time of the theft.
? A 60-year-old Leland man
awoke Saturday morning to discover
that someone had taken his 1987
Mazda pickup truck from his yard.
"He didn't think much about it at
first," the deputy reported, because
Two Busted For Drugs
While Already In Jail
Two inmates of the Brunswick
County Jail were invited to extend
their stay behind bars last week after
they were found in possession of co
caine and marijuana, according to
Det. Kevin Holden of the sheriffs
department narcotics squad.
A deputy jailer learned from other
inmates that Nancy Jane Dickens,
19, of Winston Salem had showed
them a rock of crack cocaine in the
female dormitory area Saturday af
ternoon. Holden said.
When Dickens was removed for a
medical examination, jailers
searched the dormitory and found an
empty cigarette pack jammed be
tween the stmts of a ping-pong
table. Inside they found two pieces
of crack cocaine, Holden said. The
jailer identified Dickens as the only
inmate who smoked that brand of
cigarettes.
Dickens was being held on a
charge of assault with a deadly
weapon inflicting serious injury. She
now faces two additional felony
charges of cocaine possession and
possession of cocaine in a jail,
Holden said.
The incident follows another inci
dent of jail house drug smuggling
that occurred last Wednesday night
(Aug. 17) at about 11:30, Holden
said. Inmate Brian Joseph Todd of
Beach Drive, Long Beach, was
charged with possession of a con
trolled substance in jail after a jailer
noticcd him acting suspiciously and
discovered a marijuana cigarette
hidden in a soft drink can Todd was
holding.
"Bringing drugs inio the jail is a
good way to make sure that you stay
there a lot longer," remarked nar
cotics squad chief Del. David
Crocker.
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employees sometimes use his vehi
cles for transportation. The man lat
er found it was someone else who
took the truck, which was valued at
$4,000.
? There was an estimated $420
damage reported to a residential wa
ter pump and pump house on Cattail
Way, off Holden Beach Road,
Thursday. The owner said his
daughter, who lives on the property,
advised him that all was secure that
morning. Deputy Joey Scoggins' re
port said. But when she returned
from work at about 5:20 p.m., the
woman noticed that someone had
knocked down the pump house and
had broken the PVC water lines.
? A video camcorder and batter
ies worth about $1,100 were re
moved from the home of a woman
who lives on Jabbertown Road near
Southport recently. She told Deputy
Long that someone apparently
forced their way in through a side
door and took the camcorder from a
guest bedroom.
? Someone took a riding lawn
mower off a utility trailer parked on
Short Street, off Skipper Lane in
Leland Friday night. The 36-year
old man who owns the home said
the trailer was attached to his vehi
cle at the time of the theft. The lawn
mower was valued at about $900.
? A New Jersey man who lives in
Pine Bun Acres reported the theft of
his push lawn mower from a storage
shed last week. He told Deputy
Lewis .Ward that the mower was
locked in the shed when he went
north early last month. He returned
Saturday to find that someone ap
parently pried open the door with a
screwdriver and took the mower,
which was estimated to be worth
about W50.
? Nothing was reported missing
in a break-in that occurred at a home
on Roberta Road in Tarheeland
Acres near Ocean Isle Beach Friday
night. Deputy Joey Adams spoke
with the owner, who said she re
turned home at about 11:30 p.m. to
find that someone had pried open a
window with a set of pruning shears.
The intruder went all through the
house, rifling through closets,
dressers and desks "as if looking for
something," the report said.
? There was an estimated S 1,5 16
damage reported to the front end of
a 1986 Volkswagen Jetta parked be
side N.C. 133 near Orion Plantation
recently. The owner told Deputy
Caison that he lefl the car after
breaking down down at about 4:30
p.m. and returned at 9 o'clock the
next morning to find his front
bumper missing. There was also
damage to the car's front quarter
panel.
? Two women had their purses
stolen from a car while parked at a
restaurant on Old Ferry Road near
Holden Beach Saturday night. They
told Deputy Rebekah McDonald
that the purses were left in the back
seat. The women did not notice
them missing until they relumed
home to Holdcn Beach at about
10:30 p.m. There was no damage to
the 1991 Pontiac. which the owner
said might have been left unlocked.
? No sign of forced entry was
found in apparent break-in attempt
that resulted in about $70 damage to
a summer residence on Mackerel
Street, in the Bivers Run subdivision
of Supply last week. The Lumberton
man who owns the home told De
puty Cathy Hamilton that he arrived
to discover three screens cut and an
outside shower broken.
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