- Anthony Negron, a former Marine and Onslow County Sheriff’s deputy, has been charged by federal authorities with statutory rape (read the article about the NCIS investigation). I have been working on a story all week about that with reaction from the family of his victim (notice I didn’t say “alleged”). One of the local TV stations [...]

- A Sneads Ferry man has been charged with having sex with a teenage girl in 2008. Read the news here. Edwin Jimenez is accused of grooming a 15-year-old girl before “teaching” her how to please a man. Jimenez is a Marine on terminal leave who works for Triple Canopy, a private security/mercenary company similar [...]

- A former Jacksonville High School student, whose mother still teaches there, recently promised a federal judge she had given up her life as a porn star and call girl while begging not to go to prison for her role as a pimp. Nayubet Swaso, 25, known as Sierra Sanchez in the escort industry, recently received two-years supervised probation for her [...]

- Citing health issues, Dr. Ron Wakeham has recently resigned as the director of Onslow County Emergency Services and Homeland Security. Dr. Wakeham is one of the most intellegent people I have ever met. I hope all goes well for him.  – Daily News Military Reporter Hope Hodge has been covering a trial aboard base of [...]

- Zach Huffman’s legal problems are far behind him. Still facing armed robbery charges from last year, Huffman passed away Sunday . His cause of death is still pending, but authorities seem pretty convinced he died of a drug overdose. According to his obituary, he lost two brother prior to his death. – When you are a felon [...]

- Drug charges have been dropped against Lethen Pollock, a Southwest man accused of raising pot, training fighting dogs and unwittingly changing the make up of Onslow County Animal Control. Read about his case. The shake up his case caused. And the subsequent changes. Pollock pleaded guilty two years ago to one count in connection to keeping more than [...]

The N.C. Attorney General has taken up the fight against an Appeals Court ruling reversing the decision of an Onslow County jury last year to sentence a former police chief to prison for life in the 1972 shooting death of a colleague. Geoge Hayden in a early 1970s photograph: Read the news here. The announcement is [...]

On the eve of a protracted murder trial that would have required three interpreters in a logistical nightmare, charges have been dropped against the two defendants. Read the news here. Victoria Hernandez Santes and her son Ricardo Martinez Hernandez are waiting for ICE to deport them to their native South American county.        Dr. Charles Garrett, who has performed [...]

With a ruling that is sure to shut down cold case prosecutions across the state, the N.C. Appeals Court has reversed the 2010 conviction of George Hayden for first-degree murder in the 1972 shooting death of Marine Sgt. Bill Miller. Read the news. An excerpt from the ruling: In sum, the State’s evidence of defendant’s means to commit the murder [...]

- A little girl, a friend of my own children, was struck and killed by a car on Sand Ridge Road early Monday morning while waiting for the school bus. Just like other recent situations, it sucks when I get a phone call and start running information down to find out the persons involved are not strangers, but live down [...]

- A Midway Park man is in jail on more than $5 million bond for allegedly molesting three young girls. That bond is pretty high. A few friends in law enforcement have asked me why sex offenses against three children gets someone a $5 million bond, but another person is accused of raping a teenage girl and [...]

- Jimmy Warden has a lot of enemies. As soon as the report about him being accused of raping a 14-year-old girl hit the Web, I began receiving phone calls and e-mails about him. Here is what I’ve learned: Warden was involved in some Emerald Isle break-ins. The disposition of those cases are unclear. Warden’s younger [...]