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By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A man and women were arrested, her three small children placed with the Department of Social Services, after a tip thwarted a plan to toss cell phones and tobacco into Tabor Correctional Institution, Maj. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said.      Jamal Davis, 43, of Baltimore Road, Warrenton; and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A “verbal altercation” escalated into a deadly fight Monday night resulting in a manslaughter arrest near Loris on Tuesday.      William Richard Kelly Schultz, 34, of Quartermaster Drive south of Loris was charged Tuesday afternoon, booked at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center without bond, jail records show.      Schultz is charged in…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A hat apparently left behind during a home invasion burglary in the edge of Horry County may be a key in identifying those responsible, Chief Donald Dowless of the Tabor City Police Department said Monday.      An elderly woman, 93, was home alone about 4:30 a.m. Friday when her carport door was…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com UPDATE      Greg Tyler, reported missing by concerned friends on Wednesday, has been located, Maj. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said Thursday.      “I spoke to Greg just a few minutes ago,” Sibbett said, expressing gratitude to local newspapers and social media in the effort to locate Tyler.      Look for…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Every suspect rounded up in a massive local, state and federal investigation into drug trafficking and related gun violence in Horry County have taken guilty pleas in U.S. District Court, U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced Thursday.      Suspects from Loris, Longs and mostly along the Grand Strand, 33 in all, were…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A gun reported stolen after Hurricane Matthew left a Longs area gun shop without electrical power and a functioning alarm nearly two years ago was recovered during a Loris Police Department traffic stop last week.      Malcolm Kashif Bellamy, 33, of Jackson Street, Chadbourn, was charged with possession of the stolen Glock…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A local man died following a single vehicle auto crash east of Tabor City Tuesday afternoon.      Steven Edward Rivenbark, 61, of Tabor City died after his pick-up truck went off the left side of the road, crashing into a ditch and striking a culvert in the 22000 block of Peacock Road…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A fire department officer and Columbus County Deputy Fire Marshal has been charged with embezzling funds from the Brunswick Fire Department.      David Heath Porter, 31, of Lebanon Church Road, Whiteville was arrested early Monday afternoon, charged with 32 counts of embezzlement and 32 counts of obtaining property by false pretense, Sheriff…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A Tabor Correctional Institution employee found with two small cell phones concealed in a vest apparently won’t face criminal charges because she was not caught providing either to an inmate, a Tabor City Police Department report says.      Adrianne Marie Parsons, 37, of Shallotte was reporting for work at about 5:30 p.m.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An arrest has been made in a Loris shooting just off of Loris’ main highway that left a local man dead last month, the Horry County Police Department reports.      William Henry Jones II, 26, of Loris was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a…