Shortly after midnight on Monday morning, WPD officers arrived at a downtown residence in response to a 911 call. Then, all hell broke loose.
Two days later, WPD was still silent on the issue, saying on the incident was under investigation. But a 911 recording and dispatch records acquired by Port City Daily shed at least some additional light on the situation — showing the initial call had been about a suspicious person who had apparently left the scene by the time the 911 call ended. Five minutes later, a taser was used, an officer was struck in the head and another was wounded, and at least two were arrested.
A bitter irony for the Brunswick County beach town: massive piles of sand sit just meters from the devastated dune systems that leave oceanfront houses exposed to the elements.
Pender County responded abstractly to concerns — but assiduously avoided mentioning that those concerns had been lifted nearly verbatim from a letter from frustrated teachers who were protesting the return to in-class teaching.
There’s a state law on the books to keep dangerous repeat offenders from getting bonded out of jail before their first appearance when prosecutors can ask a judge to evaluate the suspect’s flight risk. In the case of one Wilmington suspect, it didn’t work. Here’s why — and why it’s probably not an isolated incident.
