Foul play suspected after body found during search for missing woman
Foul play suspected after body found during search for missing woman By WECT Staff | February 25, 2021 at 1:02 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 4:08 PM
COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Law enforcement officials suspect foul play was involved after a body was located off of Klondyke Road near Chadbourn Wednesday afternoon.
“Investigators with the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office and the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office were directed to the area by information received in the missing person’s investigation of Jacqueline Elaine “Lynn” Landreth, W/F/37, from Clarkton,” the Bladen Co. Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. “An autopsy is being performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh on Thursday. The cause of death along with positive identification of the body will be determined at that time.”
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Whiteville drug dealer sentenced to federal prison Jamal Devon Bryant. (Source: CCSO) By WECT Staff | February 10, 2021 at 12:50 PM EST - Updated February 10 at 12:50 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A Whiteville man has been sentenced to nine years in prison on federal drug trafficking and firearm charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Deputies confiscated two .223 caliber semi-automatic rifles, a .40 caliber pistol, 8.4 grams of crack cocaine, 4.5 grams of methamphetamine, digital scales, and over $4,000 in cash.
After Bryant was taken into custody, he admitted to investigators that he sold the crack cocaine and was the owner of the firearms.