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DA recommended Chadbourn suspend police chief due to issues with evidence locker Hundreds of cases my have to be dismissed in Chadbourn By WECT Staff | March 15, 2021 at 4:33 PM EDT - Updated March 19 at 7:08 PM CHADBOURN, N.C. (WECT) - District Attorney Jon David recommended that the Town of Chadbourn suspend Police Chief Anthony Spivey earlier this month after Spivey was unable to produce evidence connected to multiple cases. In a letter sent to Interim Town Manager Jerome Chestnut on March 4, David said that the town’s police department had “neglected to send any narcotics for che...

Date Time Human activity forces animals to move 70 percent further to survive A world-first study has analysed 208 previous papers to quantify the impact of human activity on animal movement. DECRA Fellow Dr Tim Doherty warns the impacts threaten species survival and biodiversity. Lead author Dr Tim Doherty with a sand goanna at Mallee Cliffs NSW. For the first time, scientists have calculated the global impact of human activity on animal movement, revealing widespread impacts that threaten species survival and biodiversity. While it has been shown that activities such as logging and...

Former death row inmate readies for new trial decades after Columbus County double murder Former death row inmate gets new trial decades after double murder By Kendall McGee | January 11, 2021 at 6:35 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 7:49 PM WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) - Thirty years after a gruesome double murder shook the Cape Fear region, attorneys are still arguing the case. Norfolk Junior ‘Fuzzy’ Best was sentenced to die after being convicted of killing an elderly couple in 1993. Soon, he may have a new trial. The bodies of Leslie Baldwin, 82, and Gertrude Baldwin, 79, were found in ...

New trial could be on the way for man convicted of 1991 Whiteville double murder New trial for man convicted of double murder By WECT Staff | January 11, 2021 at 4:41 AM EST - Updated January 11 at 4:42 PM WHITEVILLE (WECT) - A man who was convicted of the double murder of a Whiteville couple, and sentenced to death, will be in court Monday, according to District Attorney Jon David. Norfolk Junior “Fuzzy” Best, who was sentenced to death in the 1991 deaths of Leslie Baldwin, 82, and Gertrude Baldwin, 79, was granted the new trial after the N.C. Supreme Court determined that undisclos...

Williams was previously convicted in 2006 as a habitual felon for drug offenses. Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with the intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver crack cocaine, and one count of felony elude arrest in a motor vehicle. Williams led Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a high speed chase after they conducted a search warrant on his home. The office’s investigation determined Williams sold hundreds of doses of crack cocaine in his neighborhood prior to his arrest. Craig Lakeith Williams was sentenced to serve at least five years in prison for d...