On Jan. 24, Roland-Grise Middle School band teacher Peter Michael Frank became the third New Hanover County Schools employee to be arrested on charges of sexual misconduct involving a student since 2018.
Frank, 47, has since been charged with nearly 30 felony counts for crimes that allegedly took place between 1999 and 2019.
The search warrant issued three days after Frank’s arrest allowed law enforcement to obtain his personnel file, which revealed he had been repeatedly counseled by New Hanover County Schools for “inappropriate relationships” with students.
It further stated that Frank allegedly told law enforcement he was attracted to middle-school-aged girls. Searches of his phone and computers allegedly turned up photos of the “clothed-backsides of female students.”
21-year-old charged in hit and run that injured deputy
21-year-old arrested in hit and run By Anna Phillips | December 26, 2020 at 11:43 PM EST - Updated December 27 at 3:13 PM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A 21-year-old woman is charged in a hit and run crash that left a New Hanover County Sheriffâs deputy injured.
According to Highway Patrol Sgt. Brandon Long, Maggie Amdur is charged with felony hit and run resulting in serious bodily injury and fail to move over resulting in serious bodily injury.
Amdur was given a $250,000 bond.
The crash happened on Friday, December 4 around 9 p.m.
A 21-year-old woman has been charged in a hit and run incident that left a deputy from the New Hanover County Sheriff s Office injured.
Maggie Grace Amdur was arrested and charged with felony hit and run resulting in serious bodily injury and failure to move over resulting in serious bodily harm, according to a press release from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
On Friday Dec. 4 around 9:04 p.m., Sgt. R.O. Mills was conducting a vehicle stop on U.S. 421 near Golden Road. When concluding the stop, a dark-colored SUV failed to move over and struck Mills as it passed by, according to the release. The vehicle then fled the scene of the collision.
Sheriffâs office asking for publicâs help in larceny cases
Sheriffâs office asking for publicâs help in larceny cases By WECT Staff | December 24, 2020 at 10:27 AM EST - Updated December 24 at 4:55 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The New Hanover County Sheriffâs Office is asking for the publicâs help in identifying people it says are linked to cases under investigation.
In a Facebook post, the sheriffâs office released photos of two people it says are connected to a larceny which took place at the Walmart on Carolina Beach Road on Nov. 6.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Det. K. Allen at 910-798-4261. Tips can be submitted anonymously here.
Earlier this year, Linda Thompson walked into what must ve been a very tough room to enter: a gathering of area mothers who d lost their children to gun violence.
Thompson wasn t there as a mother who d lost a child, but as a representative of the Wilmington Police Department. Before taking a new job this past summer, Thompson had worked for the WPD for 25 years, serving as both head public information officer and, more recently, as both a PIO and a diversity and inclusion officer.
She wasn t expecting it, but I knew just about every face in that room. I had to take a deep breath, Thompson said. The women I saw, and there were probably 15 to 20 people in the room, all of their children had been killed by gun violence. The sad part was, I remembered the incidents.”