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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Yahoo
Beaufort County Sheriffs Office talks boating safety ahead of Memorial Day
WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — Not only is May 17-23 National Safe Boating Week but Memorial Day weekend is around the corner and Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is making sure people are staying safe out on the water. 'It's the river, It's not the ocean, but we got 130 square miles of water in this county. A lot of people out on the boats, people from out of town that come,' Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Captain Kasey Neal said. 'With that said, people get out in the water, people start drinking, speeding, things like that. Accidents do happen.' The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office has a new safety boat they got in August of 2024 through a grant. 'This gives us the ability to get out here and respond to maybe someone who's just fallen overboard, maybe has gone unconscious, maybe is skiing and hit a log here, which is popular in the Tar River, Pamlico River,' Beaufort County Sheriff Scott Hammonds said. 'We have injuries and we just want to be able to be another asset to respond.' Capt. Kasey Neal said just last week officials rescued a man who fell off his boat in Belhaven. 'It could've been avoided. So, when you have a life jacket on, or if you have a kill switch on the boat, especially with life jacket, we've been able to locate that person a lot, lot quicker. So, I don't like things that are avoidable,' Capt. Neal said. Memorial Day weekend is a big weekend for people to go out on the boat with friends and family. 'Alcohol and boating is not the combination. You want to be cold out here on the waterfront, operating on the river,' Sheriff Hammonds said. 'The tragedy of that is injury or death and it is an experience that is thoughtless and reckless.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Beaufort County Sheriff running for re-election
BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Beaufort County Sheriff Scott Hammonds is running for re-election. Hammonds was the Republican candidate for Sheriff in 2022 when he was elected over Corey Rogerson. Hammonds announced through a Facebook post that he would be running, saying 'I have been working with integrity, the truth, and an open door policy from the first day I began serving at Sheriff.' The election is in November of 2026. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Yahoo
148 pounds of crystal meth found in stone landscaping pavers in North Carolina, police say
Police seized nearly 150 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in concrete landscape pavers ahead of Valentine's Day in North Carolina, according to officials. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit seized 148 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, according to a statement the sheriff's office posted to Facebook. When they found the drugs, the unit was following up on an investigation after the Greenville Regional Drug Task Force had made an arrest in January in Pitt County, North Carolina, which is around 85 miles southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina. The unit was deployed to Pantego, North Carolina, 50 miles east of Pitt County, where they found the narcotics hidden in "several pallets of stone landscape pavers," according to the sheriff's office. K-9s trained to indicate the presence of illegal narcotics were deployed to the scene, according to the sheriff's office. The dogs indicated that drugs were present in the pallets, and police found one of pavers, which was shaped like a hexagon, contained a circular container hidden inside that contained 800 grams of methamphetamine. In total, police found 84 stone pavers that each contained 800 grams of the substance, according to the statement. The Greenville Regional Drug Task Force, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Raleigh, North Carolina, Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, and other support agencies are investigating the case. The investigation remains ongoing. Beaufort County Sheriff Scott Hammonds asks anyone with information regarding the case to contact the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office at 252-946-7111. Tips can also be submitted anonymously by calling 252-974-6400 or through the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office App. Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY. You can connect with her on LinkedIn, follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram and TikTok: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: North Carolina police find 148 pounds of meth in landscaping pavers
USA Today
16-02-2025
- USA Today
148 pounds of crystal meth found in stone landscaping pavers in North Carolina, police say
Hear this story Police seized nearly 150 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in concrete landscape pavers ahead of Valentine's Day in North Carolina, according to officials. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit seized 148 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, according to a statement the sheriff's office posted to Facebook. When they found the drugs, the unit was following up on an investigation after the Greenville Regional Drug Task Force had made an arrest in January in Pitt County, North Carolina, which is around 85 miles southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina. The unit was deployed to Pantego, North Carolina, 50 miles east of Pitt County, where they found the narcotics hidden in "several pallets of stone landscape pavers," according to the sheriff's office. Police: Meth hidden in stone landscape pavers K-9s trained to indicate the presence of illegal narcotics were deployed to the scene, according to the sheriff's office. The dogs indicated that drugs were present in the pallets, and police found one of pavers, which was shaped like a hexagon, contained a circular container hidden inside that contained 800 grams of methamphetamine. In total, police found 84 stone pavers that each contained 800 grams of the substance, according to the statement. The Greenville Regional Drug Task Force, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Raleigh, North Carolina, Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, and other support agencies are investigating the case. The investigation remains ongoing. Police ask for help Beaufort County Sheriff Scott Hammonds asks anyone with information regarding the case to contact the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office at 252-946-7111. Tips can also be submitted anonymously by calling 252-974-6400 or through the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office App. Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY. You can connect with her on LinkedIn, follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram and TikTok: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@
