Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Details on a long-running federal investigation that resulted in the arrest of an eighth suspect Tuesday are outlined in a federal indictment that alleges money laundering stretching from February 2014 through November of this year and a more recent series of drug sales.      A principal owner of a chain of auto…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A criminal investigation is underway after what initially appeared to be an auto crash that sent a car sinking to the bottom of a rural pond claimed the lives of two Tabor City men during the weekend.      Horry County Police Department detectives have taken the lead in the investigation into the…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      On the run since being tried in absentia in early November, James Lamont Arthur of Nichols is in custody and set to spend the next 25 years in prison for gun and drug crimes.      U.S. Marshals Task Force members took Arthur, 35, into custody, booking him into the J. Reuben Long…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Hubert G. “Doc” Dameron, Tabor City’s oldest active merchant, died Friday at McLeod Loris hospital. He was 94.      Active in Tabor City’s business and civic community for seven decades, Dameron never stepped away from the Dameron Drug, the business he founded in 1946.      A graduate of the University of North Carolina…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Eight people are facing federal drug charges, seven in custody Tuesday as the FBI and area law enforcement agencies served criminal indictments alleging narcotics sales in the Tabor City area.      A “coordinated law enforcement operation” resulted in seven arrests Tuesday morning, a news release from U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Fire gutted a home just off of Green Sea Road south of Tabor City Monday morning, flames consuming almost everything inside minutes after its loan occupant escaped.      For more on this story, and the state employees who rushed in and aided the man who escaped with injuries that did not appear…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A guilty verdict was reached Friday for Whiteville area man in the 2013 murder of Lee Travis Wright near Tabor City.      Demoncrick Hunter, 27, found guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, and robbery with a dangerous weapon, was sentenced to life in prison…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A “suspicious suspect” sought by Tabor City police after a brick was tossed through a bank window and the man was seen outside a local day care is in jail, charged with possession of an estimated 2,500 prescription medication pills, Capt. Greg Sibbett said Wednesday night.      Louis Ellis Hodge, 36, of…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Was a Brunswick County man planning to rob a Tabor City bank Wednesday morning?      Tabor City police want to talk to a “suspicious suspect” who eluded them in the area of Anderson and Bell streets and Pireway Road not long after officers located a car they believe to have been his,…

By JOYCE GRAHAM tribjoyce@tabor-loris.com      A Hardee will replace a Hardee on Loris City Council next year, with its makeup otherwise unchanged in the unofficial tally of Tuesday’s election.      Council veteran Lewis Hardee finished fourth in the race for three council seats, behind political newcomer Terrence Hardee who will fill that seat.      Mike Suggs, the other…