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Residents criticize sheriff's office response as commissioners pull sheriff vehicle purchase from consent agenda
Summary
Multiple residents told commissioners they had unresolved break‑ins and poor response from the sheriff's office; the board pulled a planned consent‑agenda item on sheriff fleet replacement for further review and tabled it to the next meeting.
Several residents used the May 5 public comment period to criticize Pender County Sheriff’s Office response to thefts, break‑ins and drug activity in their neighborhoods, and the board responded by removing a sheriff‑related purchase from the consent agenda for further review.
William Oliphant Jr. and William Oliphant III each described multiple incidents in their neighborhoods they say have not been investigated or resolved. “None of them has been solved,…
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