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TABOR-LORIS TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 3 P age from the ast Compiled by Al Leonard Town Manager Town of Tabor City An Award Winning Weekly Newspaper Published Each Wednesday Owned and published by Atlantic Corporation of Tabor City, NC, Inc. 102 Avon St./P.O. Box 67, Tabor City, NC 28463 (910) 653-3153 email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES $19.95 per year in Columbus and Horry counties; $24.95 per year elsewhere in the Continental United States; $60.00 per year abroad. Periodicals postage paid at Tabor City, NC 28463 Tabor-Loris Tribune © All material 2012 All rights reserved “Life is precious...Mankind has no mandate or inherent right to limit opportunity and privilege to his fellowman of a different color or culture.” - W. Horace Carter, founder. POSTMASTER: send address changes to: Tabor-Loris Tribune P.O. Box 67 Tabor City, NC 28463 USPN PUBLICATION NO. 532-380 ISSN: 2156-2334 tabor-loris.com April 5, 1961 Recent ads • Red & White Evaporated Milk only ten cents and 50 count box of Tampa Nugget Cigars for $2.99 at Bakers Red &White • Free 5 pound bag of White Rose Flour with the purchase of a 25 pound bag at Cliff Sarvis Farm Supply • Car Washing and Waxing (free pick up and delivery) at Gore’s Gulf Service of Tabor City Mystery solved A coin changer recovered by Tabor City Police from a pond just across the state line last month was once the property of a Robeson County company that deals in the machines, Capt. Dean Foley said Tuesday. Though company officials said they knew the machine had been taken, they could not prove by whom. Water heavily damaged the machine, which is worth no more than the scrap metal now, Foley said. (Deuce Niven photo) LPD: Student struck teacher Police Reports By DEUCE NIVEN A violent encounter between a student at teacher at Loris High School last week resulted in the arrest of a teen from Longs, a Loris Police Depart- ment report says. Deontray Tydrez Williams, 18, of Freemont Road in Longs, was charged by Officer Matt Mahon last Tuesday with as- sault and battery in the third degree. He was held at the J. Reuben Long Detention Cen- ter near Conway for about a day, released just before noon last Wednesday after posting a $2,000 bond, jail records show. Teacher Jessica Handee, 23, told police that Williams became angry when she re- fused his request to go to the bathroom, “because he had already gone once,” and that the teen cursed as he got up and approached her at the door, shoved her into a concrete wall before forcing the door open andentering a hallway. Another student held Wil- liams back as he “started to come at her again,” the report said. Handee had an apparent minor injury as a result of the attack, the report said. Elsewhere Other reports on file at the Loris Police Department this week include: • Patricia Good, 29, of King Crest Drive, was charged by Sgt. Richard Kostanek last Tuesday with disorderly conduct follow- ing an incident at the Pizza Hut on U.S. 701. Store manager Tina Morgan told police that Good came to the store to talk to a male worker she has a relation- ship with, was banging at the front door, and when denied entry punched in a code on the door keypad and walked in. Good argued with the man, Leesheaus Bryant, inside the store, and refused to leave. Good was held at J. Reuben Long from early Tuesday afternoon until Friday morning. • Tyronda S. Bellamy, 32, of Alex Drive, and Latrice Vac- caro Hemingway, 35, were each charged by Lt. Karen Shepherd Friday with disorderly con- duct after the officer found the women shouting at each other in the roadway on Maple Street. • Jennifer Marie Noyola, 28, of Sweet Body Lane in Ash, was charged by Lt. Shepherd Thurs- day with shoplifting, accused of switching price tags on items, and placing some items inside other packages at the Family Dollard on Broad Street. Arrests for resisting, fleeing from police: TCPD Arrests for resisting arrest and fleeing from police are in- cluded in reports on file at the Tabor City Police Department this week. Those reports include: • Kevin Lawrence Gerald, 25, of Ramsey Ford Road, was charged by Detective Sgt. Chris- topher Hilburn last Wednesday with assault on an officer and resisting arrest. He is accused of attacking Det. Anthony Spivey as the officer attempted to serve warrants charging him with failing to appear in court to answer charges of driving with a revoked license and op- erating an uninsured vehicle, and resisting Hilburn by “not complying with verbal com- mands and refusing to provide date of birth,” warrants said. • Terry Nathan Duncan, 20, of Old Stake Road, was charged by Officer Jeff Grainger last Tues- day on a warrant obtained by Officer Eric Gause with fleeing to elude arrest. Duncan is ac- cused of fleeing from Gause on Aug. 9 as the officer attempted to pull him over for running a stop sign. • Terry Lemont Riggins, 31, of Miller Road, was charged by MSGT Michael Jamison Saturday with driving while impaired and with driving with a revoked license. • Brenda Ward Batten, 32, of Old Stake Road, Chadbourn, was charged by MSGT Jamison last Wednesday with driving with a revoked license. • Lashonta Lashell McCray, 26, of Mollie Road, was charged by Det. Ken Elliott last Wednes- day with driving without a license and with having an unbelted juvenile passenger in the vehicle. • Amber Williamson, 23, of Lake Tabor Drive, was charged by Officer Matthew Turner Friday with operating an un- insured vehicle with a revoked license plate. • Lindsay Danielle Honeycutt, 25, of Savannah Road, was charged by MSGT Jamison Sunday with operating an un- insured vehicle with a revoked license plate. • Daulton Reno Duncan, 18, of Sandy Bluff Road, was charged by Lt. Ronnie Carroll Saturday with possession of spirituous liquor by a person younger than 19. • Christopher Lee Byrd, 30, of Blue Sky Drive, was charged by Lt. Carroll Friday on a warrant obtained by Det. Hilburn with second degree trespassing. He is accused of remaining on the Live Oak Street property of Pamela Young Byrd, 53, after being told by the owner not to enter or remain there. • Malcolm Andra Smith, 24, who is listed as homeless and with addresses on Autumn Chase Drive and Jernigan Street, was charged by MSGT Jamison last Monday with second degree trespass on a complaint from Betty Johnson, no age or address listed. • Heather Davis Faulk, 31, an employee of Waterbrooke Assisted Living in Tabor City, told Detective Lt. Jerry Sarvis Friday that a male resident there hit her in the chest with his fist after she told the man that blowing his nose into his shirt was “nasty” and she of- fered paper towels. • Laquanna Laquay Boone, 19, of Pine Circle Drive, told Lt. Carroll Saturday that home furnishings, a TV and other items worth a total of $1,335 had been taken from a unit at Modern Self Storage on Main Street. Police were unable to locate the lock for the unit, which was missing. • An alarm alerted police to an apparent break-in at the School Street home of John Johnson, a Sept. 28 report by Sgt. Hilburn said. Police found entry to a door, but could not determine with certainty if anything was missing, because the owner was not home. A relative did arrive, and the house was secured, the report said. • Lilly Mae Smith, 77, of Ox- ford Village Apartments, told Officer Turner last Wednesday that her Social Security check had been stolen in an apparent case of identity theft. • Vasco employee Benjamin Hardie told Officer Grainger last Monday that a man and woman who had gone into a restroom there together broke the sink, possibly while having sex, inside the East 5 th Street business. • Lt. Carroll and a Columbus County Animal Control Officer found a bulldog on a chain be- hind a Singletary Street home last Tuesday, with no access to shelter or water, Carroll’s report said. No one was home, and the Animal Control Officer left a notice giving the owner 72 hours to secure a rabies vac- cination, and ordering that the dog be given access to shelter and water. • An employee of Superior Wholesale in Charlotte told Lt. Sarvis Friday that a Tabor City merchant had that had been buying tobacco products and paying through a bank draft, had received more than $10,000 in products, but that the draft show insufficient funds. • Terry Lewis, no age listed, of Elizabethtown, told Officer Christopher Cotton on Sept. 11 that someone took a heater worth $200 from the West 2 nd Street home of her brother, Norman McNeil. • Justin Tyler Hines, 19, of Woodrow Cribb Road, Claren- don, told Officer Cotton on Sept. 11 that someone broke into his 1996 Chevrolet truck while he was at work at Atlantic Corp. on East 5 th Street and took a cell phone and $20 in cash. • Keith Mercure, 45, of Hwy 9 East, Longs, told Officer Grainger Sept. 13 that someone threw a bottle at a side window of his 2003 Ford truck, breaking the bottle but not damaging the vehicle. • A car owned by Yvonne Moore Johnson, 48, of Bruce Street in Fair Bluff, was dam- aged, apparently by a rock thrown through both front windows, while it was in the Food Lion parking lot, a report taken Sept. 20 by Capt. Dean Foley said. A store manager said the car, now missing a radio, had been parked in the lot for “a couple of days,” the report said. Shots from a car land Bell in jail By DEUCE NIVEN Gunfire on Queen Street landed a local man in jail Fri- day night, a Tabor City Police Department report shows. Brian Jacquar “B.J.” Bell, 20, of Seal Street, w a s charged b y MSGT Michael Jamison with dis- charg - ing a weapon into oc- cupied property following the 8:15 p.m. shooting into the Valerie Bryant home on Queen Street, Jamison’s report said. Bell was held at the Colum- bus County Detention Center in Whiteville under a $50,000 secured bond. Bryant showed responding officers a bullet hole in her bedroom wall. The bullet “came through her bedroom wall and hit a wall in the hallway,” the report said. “The bullet is lo- cated somewhere in the hallway wall.” Two men were standing outside, on the corner, when a white “Kia Sonata” drove by, and Bell ‘started shooting out of the car,” Bryant told police. Another witness echoed Bry- ant’s story, the report said. Jamison spotted a Hyundai Sonata at a Bay Street home, with the door open, and met with Capt. Dean Foley nearby. Officers watched as the car drove away, and stopped the Hyundai on Watering Street. Bell was in the back seat of the car, with Charles Billings Jr., the report said. Louann Locklear was driving, with Amanda Rizzo also in the front seat, the report said. Police found a 9mm handgun in the car, near Bell, the report said. The gun was loaded, with a round in the chamber. Both women told police Bell had fired shots from the car, Jamison wrote in his report. However, the women in written statements did not say Bell had been shooting, only “that they didn’t know who shot first.” “B.J.” Bell “There were Tupper- ware containers all over the place packed full of pills,” Det. Aaron Herring of the Columbus County Sheriff ’s Office said of a home on Mill Branch Road in Tabor City last week. “There were so many, postal inspectors took them to a warehouse in Charlotte to count. I’ve never seen so many pills,” the narcotics detective said. James Douglas Corbett, 44, and Corbett’s wife, Stacy Hardwick Corbett, 41, were each charged with one count each of possession of ana- bolic steroids with intent to sell, Herring said. Postal inspectors seized 43,536 steroid pills, 923 10mm vials in injectable steroids, plus 80 more vials in a UPS package. Herring said he expected U.S. Postal inspectors to bring more charges against the Corbetts who were al- legedly taking part in a program of shipping con- trolled medication to people who ordered them from an Internet site. Mailed anywhere Pills were shipped in 12 to 20 packages a day, and were mailed from post offices in Steroid pills, more than 43K, seized from TC area home TaborCity,Clarendon,Shal- lotte, Leland, Wilmington, and elsewhere. Herring said 350 packages were mailed by the Corbetts during the three months of July through September, accord- ing to postal records. “The Corbetts were mail- ing the packages of steroid pills and testosterone to cus- tomers with bogus names, but real addresses,” Herring explained. He said the man and wife never met the person who started them in the business in 2009, and who paid them for their shipping service. Return addresses Pills arrived from China, Great Britain and Canada to addresses in Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, where the Corbetts would receive the packages. Return addresses on the packages would con- sist of a bogus name of a person or fake business, but to a correct address some- where in Columbus County, Herring said. Packages were not to be returned to the Corbett’s home. Herring said he re- ceived a tip about the pill service from a person who received a package that couldn’t be delivered and was returned to the inno- cent person’s home. Herring said some of the medication shipped consist- ed of injectable steroids, but 95 percent of the business appeared to be handled in pill form. James Corbett’s occu- pation on the local arrest report showed him as “un- employed.” His wife is a phlebotomist at Southeast- ern General Hospital in Lumberton, according to Herring. – Bob High, The News Reporter Nine more people, in- cluding one from Loris, have been charged in a wide- ranging tax fraud investiga- tion that became publicly known with the arrest of a Loris woman and five other people on August 15, officials with the South Carolina De- partment of Revenue have announced during recent weeks. Tyronda Sherril Bel - Nine more arrests brings tax fraud suspect list to 17 lamy, 32, of Cox Road, Loris, was arrested Sept. 28. State revenue agents charge that Bellamy pre- sented a fraudulent W2 form for her 2011 income tax re- turn to a tax preparer. That form, agents charge, showed that Bellamy worked for someone but was not em- ployed, and stated earnings of $15,899 with $715 in state taxes withheld. Cox claimed a federal and state tax refund that totaled $8,954, and was entitled to none of it, the state charged. Arrests were made Sept. 19, 20, and 21, with one more last Monday, bringing to at least 17 the number of men and women charged in the case. Others charged with forgery, assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, and conspiracy in the past week include: • Wanda Conyers, 31, of Conway • Amy McAllister, 26, of Conway • Crystal Zimmerman, 32, of Myrtle Beach • Joe Lewis Williams, 32, of Myrtle Beach • Ashley N. White, 24, of Conway • Derrick Burgress, 36, of Myrtle Beach • Jermaine Mouzon, 31, of Myrtle Beach Shana Qwnisha Ham, 20, of Knickerback Road in Loris was the first charged in the ongoing investiga- tion, arrested on Aug. 15. Others charged previously have been from Longs, Conway, and Myrtle Beach, all charged with similar crimes.
