A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Myrtle Beach after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend Debbie Owens, 40, whom he lived with in Seagrove, according to Moore County Sheriff s Investigators.Â
Jimmy Dale Sheffield is being held in a South Carolina detention facility on a fugitive warrant pending extradition to North Carolina, according to a press release from the sheriff s office. He was apprehended in Myrtle Beach just before 9 p.m. on Thursday in a joint effort between authorities from the Moore County Sheriff s Office, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, and the Myrtle Beach Police Department.Â
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