Month: February 2023

Law enforcement to share details on drug trafficking arrests

CARTERET COUNTY, NC – Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck, along with Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes and District Attorney Scott Thomas will be hosting a press conference, Wednesday March 1st, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at the Carteret County Courthouse to announce the results of a…

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Part 2 of Three: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

By Seymour Hersh Editor’s note: Mr. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is a journalist of impeccable credentials, known for breaking many stories over the course of his long career. He now writes for the news website substack.com. We are indebted to him for…

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Michael Bryan Ward

Newport man charged in Dollar General larceny

On February 23, 2023 Carteret County detectives arrested Michael Bryan Ward, 54, of George Taylor Road, Newport after citizens identified him from a surveillance image released by the Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. The image captured Ward after he snatched an employee’s personal cell phone and…

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Pamlico Tops State In Overdose Deaths*

* Denotes per capita basis Is ‘syringe exchange’ for addicts best use of opioid settlement monies? BAYBORO – The county’s share from Big Pharma’s multi-billion dollar settlement of opioid litigation will arrive via installments over the next 18 years. Please see timetable below. Monday night,…

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Randy Wade Jackson

Morehead City man charged with sexual exploitation following ICAC Investigation

On February 22, 2023 Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit and the Morehead City Police Department arrested Randy Wade Jackson, 37, of Morehead City, NC. Jackson was charged with two-counts of Third-Degree Sexual Exploitation of a Minor (possession…

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Request for Public Assistance identifying individuals in fraud investigation

Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in identifying these individuals. The male and female are persons of interest in a fraud investigation. The male is driving a dark in color Toyota Tacoma with and LED light bar on the front. The female is…

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Hugh Crandall Willis Jr

Down East man charged in Overdose Death

 On February 20, 2023, Deputies arrested Hugh Crandall Willis Jr, 34, of Gloucester, NC. Willis was charged with distributing Fentanyl which resulted in the overdose death of Bethany JoAlison Styron, age 25, of Davis, NC. This arrest was result of a death investigation that started…

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Youngster dresses like 104-year-old friend!

For Jackson Childers (grandson of Roy Whaley of Cove City and son of Casey Whaley Childers), the 100th day of Kindergarten came with excitement. Each member of the kindergarten class was asked to ‘dress like a 100 year old’ with suspenders, canes, gray hair, walkers and…

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Todd Callender (top) and Pascal Najadi

NUREMBERG 2.0?

Look out Pfizer. Here comes the King of Thailand, and he is pissed!

By Tammy Dail | Guest Commentary Those of us who have been doing our homework for the past two to three years know what Nuremberg 2.0 means – a way to hold those accountable who knowingly and willingly committed crimes against humanity. Some of us…

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Recreational spring season for ocellated flounder (Gulf and summer flounder) in Atlantic Ocean will not occur in 2023

A recreational spring season for ocellated (Gulf and summer) flounder will not occur in 2023, as preliminary data from the 2022 recreational flounder season (Sept. 1-30, 2022) indicates that removals of southern flounder exceeded the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) by 25,000 pounds. The 2023 recreational…

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Part 1 of Three: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

By Seymour Hersh Editor’s note: Mr. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is a journalist of impeccable credentials, known for breaking many stories over the course of his long career. He now writes for the news website substack.com. We are indebted to him for…

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Six years ago, the author took this photo in the San Diego Harbor of a B-39 Russian sub from the Pacific Fleet – identical in all respects to the four B-59 Russian subs involved in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

How the Commander for a Fleet of Russian Subs Averted WW III

Editor’s Note: The October 1962 incident related in this article was made known some 10 years after the Berlin Wall came down in 1991. A nuclear war was avoided because a Soviet Brigade Chief (equivalent to a U.S. admiral)  intervened in the Cuban Blockade at…

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