Need some guns? The sheriff is selling plenty Saturday. Read the news. List of guns on the auction block: FNH 5.7 X 28 CAL.     SN#38118697 DRACO 7.62 X 39 CAL.     SN#DR6321-09 ACTION ARMS .45 CAL.     SN#000264 DESSERT EAGLE .44 MAG.     SN#41717 COLT DEFENDER SERIES 90     SN#DR31463 DESSERT EAGLE .50 CAL.     SN#32203486 KBI 7.62 CAL. WOODSTOCK     [...]

The Sheriff’s Office is now tracking firearms issued to its deputies and seized in criminal investigations. Read the news. Sheriff’s Capt. Pat Garvey firing a .45-caliber Colt into the Kevlar fiber-packed ballistic catch chamber: -

One of the most recent murder suspects arrested in Onslow County has appearently gotten into some trouble in jail.  Juan Hernandez is accused of killing his wife and is locked up awaiting trial. Read about the homicide here. He popped up on the first court appearance calander last week with charges of malicious conduct by a prisoner and assault on [...]

Family, friends and church members of a Jacksonville man killed last week in Wilmington marched Saturday to draw attention against street violence. Read the news. I never knew Jonathan Jones Jr., but I have met his parents and they are good people. Photos of Jonathan’s life: A memorial table: -

While it has the same address, jdnews.com looks 100 percent better. Check it out. The website’s content has been steadily expanding and improving since Amanda Hickey took the job a couple of years ago. Now it looks great too. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it today. The Peanut Gallery’s comments on the [...]

There was another fire in the same mobile home park Wednesday. Read the news. Detectives think they have a good lead on the perp… ————————————————————————— Authorities are searching for clues as to who and why a car was torched in the Southwest area Sunday. Read the news. First thing I thought of was the Timothy Spicer case. [...]

On this day 39 years ago Marine Sgt. Bill Miller was gunned down on Western Boulevard, then an isolated country road. Bill Miller in an early 1970s photograph: His killer, George Hayden, a retired Marine and former local police chief, was convicted in May 2010 of shooting Miller in cold blood. The N.C. Court of Appeals [...]

I forgot yesterday to include this photo of the mobile home on Mattocks Road: And to answer Jan’s question, I don’t know who the body was supposed to be. I don’t think the authorities had an identity either just a tip a body would be there. ——————————————————————– A search for a possible dead body led [...]

Photographer Ed Caram was on hand to snap some pictures of a bone – believed to be human – found Saturday at Surf City. Here’s Ed’s description: Surf City Police Officer David Beaver was given a human collar bone Saturday by some Marines at Surf City. According to Beaver the bone was found near 5th [...]

- Robert Lewis has been convicted of manslaughter in his son’s death. Read the news. Photos from the trial are at the end of this post. I have covered every murder trial in Jacksonville in the last five years. I have seen some good lawyering on both sides, but I honestly think Ernie Wright put on [...]