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Remains identified as Kristen Ashley Bennett

PRESS RELEASE, July 18, 2019

CARTERET COUNTY -- On 07/17/2019, Carteret County detectives attended the autopsy of the body recovered from property of Trey Branche’s family at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Late Wednesday afternoon Vidant doctors and a team of pathologists were able to positively identify the remains as Kristen Bennett through dental records. The manner of death has been officially ruled a homicide as the result of a gunshot wound to the head. A small caliber bullet was recovered at the autopsy. T...

Hippie looks back 50 years to Woodstock Music Festival

Special to the County Compass, July 18, 2019

By Craig Welling WHITE LAKE, NEW YORK – It was the summer of 1969. In July, Apollo 11 went to the moon and Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin aboard their lunar module set foot on the orb. Millions of people in America and around the world witnessed the event from a distance. But back on planet earth my generation was emerging from adolescence under the cloud of the war in Vietnam. A subculture was forming in the Northeast and on the West Coast. For us, images of a trip to the moon – a...

Remains recovered in Mill Creek - Police believe it to be the body of Kristen Ashley Bennett

PRESS RELEASE, July 16, 2019

CARTERET COUNTY -- On 07/16/2019, Carteret County deputies recovered a body who investigators believe is Kristen Ashley Bennett of Newport. Bennett was reported missing by her parents on 08/16/2018 after being missing for two days. On 09/04/2018 Bennett’s boyfriend Lewis Victor Branche III, also known as Trey Branche, was arrested for her murder. This morning officials received and acted on information that led them to the area of Point Road and Morris Hill Lane in Mill Creek on property...

Legal hemp approaches

Special to the County Compass, July 16, 2019

By Kari Travis | Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — Lawmakers want North Carolina farmers to grow more hemp. The Farm Bill of 2019, passed the Senate last month by a 31-14 vote. The legislation officially authorizes and regulates statewide hemp farming, among other things. That’s a big deal for agriculture across the U.S., experts say. The federal government in 2018 removed hemp from its Controlled Substances Act — effectively legalizing the non-psychoactive cannabis plant...

OWNER OF S&D GUN AND KNIFE SHOW PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGALLY POSSESSING FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION AS A FELON

PRESS RELEASE, July 11, 2019

NEW BERN – United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones, Jr., SHERWOOD WATSON CARAWAY, 62, of Merritt, North Carolina pled guilty to illegally possessing firearms and ammunition while being a felon. During the defendant’s guilty plea hearing, the Government summarized the evidence supporting the defendant’s guilty plea. CARAWAY had been convicted in federal court in 2005 of unlawfully dealing in f...

Black panther spotted

Jeff Aydelette, July 11, 2019

GRANTSBORO – Steve Thompson, a new resident of our area, sent me an email last week. You guessed it – Thompson had a quick story to tell: “Last night (June 30) my wife and I saw a very big black panther about to cross Hwy 306. I believe it t was chasing a deer that shot right in front of our truck. Didn't know we had black panthers down here so that was pretty cool to see, very large but when he saw my truck he jetted back in the woods!” More than a decade ago, this reporter wr...

Dealing with high waters -- Look to Netherlands as model

Special to the County Compass, July 10, 2019

By Gerald E. Saunders Jr. Editor’s note: Shortly after Hurricane Irene in August 2011, Mr. Saunders wrote a commentary for this newspaper warning us to prepare for future disasters. He later hosted a well-attended seminar and revisits that topic here: PAMLICO COUNTY – Shakespeare once said, “A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” I do not believe the word hurricane by any other name would be sweet, in fact, it may be just the opposite. One rumored international synon...

TWO PLEAD GUILTY PRIOR TO TRIAL IN CARTERET SUPERIOR COURT

PRESS RELEASE, July 9, 2019

Beaufort, North Carolina – District Attorney Scott Thomas announced that, in Carteret Superior Court this week, the following defendants entered guilty pleas just prior to their cases being called for trial before a jury and presiding Superior Court Judge John Nobles. The cases were prosecuted in court by Assistant District Attorney Ashley Eatmon. BRANDON HOBBS, 39, of Newport, pled guilty to Possession of Methamphetamine Precursor Chemical during the Carteret County Superior Court Trial Te...

Who’s actually catching the most fish?

Special to the County Compass, June 28, 2019

Recreational tops commercial fishing across nine species By Easton Edwards If you attend any fisheries meeting you will sit and listen to individuals complain that they “never catch any fish,” “they don’t catch the fish they used to,” or “the commercial fishing guys catch everything and I never catch anything.” I have sat through numerous meetings and I hear this rhetoric from basically the same people, every time, at every fisheries meeting. You would think that there are ...

CARTERET COUNTY SHERIFF OFFERS TIPS FOR A SAFE JULY 4TH WEEKEND

PRESS RELEASE, June 26, 2019

With the July 4th weekend approaching, County Sheriff Asa Buck asks all citizens to join him in making this Fourth of July holiday happy, enjoyable and safe for everyone. Carteret County citizens should remember that fireworks, as enjoyable as they are to watch, can be dangerous and should only be handled by professionals. According to the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission, there are nearly 9,000 emergency room-treated injuries associated with fireworks a year. You can enjoy ...

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