UPDATE: Missing teens found and safe
Sheriffâs office searching for missing teens By WECT Staff | May 3, 2021 at 8:40 AM EDT - Updated May 3 at 9:51 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The two teens reported missing to New Hanover County Sheriffâs Office Monday morning have been located and safely returned home.
The sheriffâs office reported Monday evening that Sarah Elizabeth Williams, 16, and Mason Edward Huie, 16, have been found.
Williams was last seen on April 28 on Lockwood Drive. She was last seen wearing a white tank top and pajama shorts.
Williams is 5â²7 and weighs about 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and has a butterfly tattoo on her left wrist.
Crimes of the Cape Fear: FBI secretary murdered in New Hanover Co.
FBI file recently released on 1999 murder case that went cold for years before arrest
Crimes of the Cape Fear: New evidence closed Melissa Mooney case By Ann McAdams | April 28, 2021 at 11:04 AM EDT - Updated April 29 at 4:05 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Theyâd spent their entire FBI careers investigating horrible crimes, but it was still the last thing theyâd expected: finding one of their own co-workers, murdered. In the summer of 1999, agents assigned to the Wilmington FBI office found themselves in that very situation. Despite all their experience, the shock of finding the body of FBI secretary Melissa Ann Mooney after going to her home for a well check made one agent on the scene vomit.
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Police have made an arrest in connection with multiple Wilmington bank robberies.
The Wilmington Police Department charged Elijah Muhammad McFarland, 37, on Thursday with two counts of armed robbery, according to a Thursday news release.
Police were dispatched to the Wells Fargo located at 590 S. College Road around 10:53 a.m. Thursday after McFarland allegedly approached a teller and passed a note demanding money, the release said. No weapon was shown.
The teller then handed over the cash, and McFarland allegedly left in a red Lincoln sedan. Someone got the vehicle tag and was able to provide it to police, the release said.