Area News

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…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A suspect in one of three incidents involving gunfire into area homes last Thursday was hit by return fire from a resident and had been arrested. Edward Deron Riggins, 28, of Tillman Avenue, Tabor City was arrested Thursday, charged in the Thursday night shooting at a neighbor’s home, Columbus County Detention…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Two of four people charged in a Grand Strand child sex crimes case with ties to Tabor City have entered guilty pleas, 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said Tuesday.      Panteleimon Nicolas Spirakis, 57, of Myrtle Beach and Lindsey Honeycutt, 31, who showed addresses in Myrtle Beach and Tabor  City when she…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Help from the public is being sought in connection with two Sunday night burglaries in the Loris area, Capt. John Harrelson of the Horry County Police Department said.      A man captured in surveillance video is wanted for questioning as a “person of interest” in the burglaries at the Sunny Stop at…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Fire heavily damaged the home of Jerry and Shirley Cribb in the Sidney Community Friday afternoon.      Williams Township Firefighters arriving at the home on James B. White Hwy South just north of Peacock Road found smoke pouring from the eves of the old, single-story wooden structure.      Jerry Cribb said he and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Friday update      A former New Jersery resident living in Horry County for about 18 months has been identified as the man killed during a robbery attempt and carjacking in Longs Wednesday night.      Gerard “Jerry” Celentano died of a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Food Lion on SC 9…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A locked door at the United Community Bank in Green Sea stopped an apparent armed robbery attempt in its tracks Wednesday, Capt. John Harrelson of the Horry County Police Department said.      Two men armed with long guns arrived at the bank branch at 5264 Hwy. 9, attempted to enter the bank,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Gunfire into three area homes early Wednesday left one woman with a bullet wound, others shaken, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office gathering evidence and looking for suspects, agency reports say.      Shootings into homes were reported at 13:39 a.m. on Godwin Trail, Chadbourn, just north of Clarendon; at 12:53 a.m. on Billy…