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The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Department linked Darryl Lewayne Easter, 28, to a string of break-ins that occurred early last year. (Port City Daily photo/file) NEW HANOVER COUNTY — A 28-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday for 10 offenses of breaking and entering into motor vehicles and two felony charges of heroin possession. The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office linked Darryl Lewayne Easter to a string of break-ins that occurred in the Ogden area around Gordon Road early last year. Detectives used home surveillance camera footage to identify Easter. Upon arrest, Easter also had outs...

A man has been sentenced to more than 28 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to rape, kidnapping and burglary. Charles Lee Crews II, 38, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 66-year-old woman in Nov. 2018 in Wilmington, according to a press release from New Hanover and Pender County District Attorney Ben David's Office. Crews broke into the women's residence at University Place Apartments on MacMillan Avenue by cutting a window screen and opening the window. After climbing through the window, he brandished a knife to facilitate the sexual assault, the release stated. DNA ana...