Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A suspect in a decade-old Columbus County murder is in custody thanks to someone who “followed their gut” and used a Google search to unmask the fugitive, Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Friday.      Fernando Carvajal Galarza, 59, was brought back to Columbus County from Glasgow, Kentucky Thursday, and booked into the Columbus…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A guilty verdict in the first of three potential trials in a series of 2015 Horry County armed robberies that resulted in two murders will leave a Nichols man in prison for the rest of his life.      James Elbert Daniels, 30, was found guilty of murder and two armed robberies by…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Another area report of shooting into an occupied dwelling, this time on US 701 in the Williams Township area.      William Blain Stutts, 44 and Tara Michelle Fowler, 37, were victims of the shooting which took place north of Williams Township School, a report by Deputy Patrick Herring said.      Deputies responded about…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Felony charges of criminal use of counterfeit trademarks in an alleged on-line sales scheme have been leveled against a Tabor City woman, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Tuesday.      Carroll Ann Barnes, 32, of Wright Road, Tabor City, was arrested Monday, a week after detectives seized goods worth an estimated $18,500…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A mother, two children, and a man in a second vehicle were injured in a crash near Williams Township School Monday morning, the first day of classes there.      It was not clear if the children were Williams students, or even that old. None of the injuries appeared serious, though all were…

Sunday update Wanda Faye Odum, the Chadbourn woman reported missing on Friday, has been located, Columbus County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Michelle Tatum said Sunday morning. “She is safe and unharmed,” Tatum said in a news release. Friday post      A missing Chadbourn woman may be in danger, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office reports.      Wanda Faye Odum,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Sexual exploitation of a minor charges are facing a Loris area man investigators say possessed child pornography, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said Friday.      Aaron Paul Ferreira, 23, faces nine charges, including one count of sexual exploitation of a minor in the second degree, eight counts of sexual exploitation of…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Armed robbery, first degree burglary and related charges connected with weekend burglaries in Horry County area awaiting a Tabor City man in custody at the Columbus County Detention Center.      Dock Raymond Ward, 41, of Green Sea Road in Tabor City was served with a fugitive warrant from Horry County on Friday,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A Tabor City man is facing murder and other charges in last week’s carjacking and attempt and murder at the Food Lion in Longs, and is a suspect in a string of robberies that followed on both sides of the state line.      James Laverne Bellamy, 47, was arrested by U.S. Marshals…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      New drug charges were preferred Wednesday against a woman who a day earlier admitted guilt to sex crime charges involving her young twin children.      Lindsey Danielle Honeycutt was arrested Tuesday night after deputies found her passed out in a vehicle just off of NC 904 east of Tabor City, Det. Barrett…