NHSO setting up safe spot for online sale exchanges

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is working to create safe place where you can exchange items purchased online from sites like Craigslist and Wilmington Yard Sales.

NHSO spokesman Lt. Jerry Brewer says parking spots at the Sheriff’s Office on Juvenile Center Drive off Blue Clay Road will be under 24-hour surveillance. Brewer says they have had several issues with transactions going wrong and wanted to step in to give the community a safe place.

“For us to produce these spots here, that are under video surveillance, we have deputies feet away,” Brewer said. “It really is a small thing for us to accomplish to be able to provide more safety to the people in new hanover county.”

Brewer says they hope to have the spots set up for the public by the end of next week.