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ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) — A murder-suicide Friday afternoon claimed the lives of two people outside of Lumberton, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to the 100 ...
Aug. 11—MAXTON — Investigators with the Robeson County Sheriff's Office are said to be investigating the death of a 38-year-old Pembroke woman who apparently was murdered early Friday morning.
Robeson County courthouse in Lumberton, 1978. In the 1980s Robeson County was among the poorest counties in the state of North Carolina, United States.It had a triracial population of about 101,000 people of whom 26 percent were black, 37 percent were white, and 37 percent were Native American (mostly members of the Tuscarora and Lumbee tribes).
Jul. 28—ROBESON COUNTY — The driver of a motor vehicle died Wednesday night after veering off the road and striking a tree, according to the N.C. State Highway Patrol. The crash took place at ...
On February 1, 1988, two Tuscarora men took hostages in the offices of The Robesonian in Lumberton in an attempt to bring attention to the death of a black man in the Robeson County jail and allegations of corruption in the sheriff's department—namely that sheriff's deputies were involved smuggling cocaine. They surrendered after state ...
Robeson County lies within the bounds of North Carolina's 20th Prosecutorial District, the 16B Superior Court District, and the 16B District Court District. [211] County residents elect a county sheriff, clerk of Superior Court, and district attorney. [212] Judicial officials work out of the Robeson County Courthouse in Lumberton. [206]
Dec. 23—PEMBROKE — On Friday at about 2:31 p.m., deputies from the Robeson County Sheriff's Office responded to 1900 block of Philadelphus Road in Pembroke in reference to a helicopter crash.
In October 1984, McCollum and Brown faced their first joint trial in Robeson County. Their prosecutor, Robeson and Scotland County District Attorney Joe Freeman Britt, prided himself on his exorbitantly high number of death penalty cases, to the point where Guinness World Records named him the "deadliest prosecutor in America" around 1988. [22]