New Hanover County Sheriff's Office

A lesson learned the hard way for one Ashley High School ROTC student. The student and his ceremonial rifle sparked a lockdown for three schools Friday morning. Full story...

Sheriff's deputies have arrested two people and are searching for three more in connection to a violent home invasion last month in New Hanover County. Owen Hobson Morgan, 22, and Kristina Hanne Steenberg, 21, are charged with multiple felonies, including kidnapping and assault by pointing a gun. Full story...

You are probably used to seeing something on top of the Chick-fil-A at Oleander and Independence. Friday the familiar cow was up there, but so was a New Hanover Sheriff’s Deputy. Deputies along with Wilmington fire fighters are on top of the popular chicken restaurant to raise money for Special Olympics. Full story...

The U.S. Coast Guard's office at Wrightsville Beach says four people have been located and are safe after their boat sank off the coast of Wrightsville Beach. Full story...

New Hanover County Sheriff's Office Detectives are asking for help searching for two suspects wanted for multiple thefts from local Walmarts over the last couple of weeks. Full story...

New Hanover County Sheriff's detectives have found the body of a man missing from Figure Eight Island. Full story...

Two Wilmington teenagers are in some big trouble after investigators say they tried to abduct a child heading home from school. Full story...

Law enforcement is warning of another synthetic drug on the streets of Wilmington. The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office and the Wilmington Police Department joint Downtown Task Force encountered Pump-It this weekend. Full story...

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office developed a scenario for the exercise, detailed in about 40 pages, where an inmate from the prison system escaped and corralled himself inside a building at ILM. Full story...

Sgt. Jerry Brewer says Thomas Lloyd Kimball III and Richard Blake Sutherland had been skeet shooting and returned to campus to pick up their girlfriends when a school resource officer asked to see what they had in their vehicle. Full story...

According to the report Dailey and the mother of his children got into an argument Sunday morning. The victim stated that during the argument Dailey grabbed her face, choked her and bound her hands with cords. At one point the victim fled the house, followed by Dailey carrying their 11 month old in his arms as her attempted to restrain her and drag her back into the house. Full story...

An Ashley High School teachers assistant is out of jail after being charged with indecent liberties with a 17-year-old girl. He's the second TA at a New Hanover County High School charged with a crime against a student this month. Full story...

New Hanover County Sheriff's deputies say they've made arrested suspects in a breaking and entering that show crime can be a family business. Full story...

A New Hanover County teacher is in jail charged with indecent liberties with a 17-year-old girl. The victim is a student at Ashley High School, where White worked, according to an arrest warrant. Full story...

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Citizens Academy program is very well received. This is the fifth such academy to give people a chance to view life as a deputy. Full story...