All assets associated with the tag: Sampson County Sheriff's Office
The Sampson County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to find the person(s) who stole a small tractor.
Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton posted on his Facebook page that there is a critical staffing shortage within his office.
The fellow deputy, who many say helped save the life of a Sampson County deputy shot while trying to apprehend a suspect, is being called a hero.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Days after being shot outside Roseboro, Sampson County Deputy Caitlin Emanuel is in physical therapy learning how to walk again.
Dozens of Sampson County Sheriff's Office employees are suing the county, alleging they were not paid properly for the hours they worked, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year.
Jessica Patrick, WRAL senior multiplatform producer
A Sampson County Sheriff's deputy was shot on Saturday morning after responding to a report of a vehicle theft.
A man is in custody after a sheriff's deputy was shot in Sampson County on Saturday morning.
Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporter
A man is in custody after a deputy was shot in Sampson County overnight.
A Sampson County deputy who shot and killed a man during a July 4 traffic stop has been cleared of wrongdoing by the local district attorney.
The family of Kiara Wiggins, who has been missing for more than two weeks, said that they were suspicious of her husband since the beginning of the marriage.
Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton said that Carl Wiggins, the main suspect inhis wife's disapperance, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon. Officials plan to question Wiggins in his wife's disapperance.
A detention officer at the Sampson County jail was shot on her lunch hour Tuesday, and the suspected gunman was later arrested, authorities said.
A Sampson County man was charged with murder Thursday, three days after investigators were tipped off about a body buried in a wooded area of Faison and people chasing a possible suspect, authorities said.
A man was taken into custody Monday after a chase following a hit-and-run crash in Sampson County led authorities to a chase and manhunt in Johnston County.
A man was taken into custody following a chase that began in Sampson County and ended in Johnston County following a hit-and-run crash in a work zone on Saturday.
Jason O. Boyd, Multiplatform producer
The sheriffs from Halifax and Sampson counties took to Facebook on Wednesday to say they will not enforce Gov. Roy Cooper's order that says face masks must be worn in public. The order goes into effect on Friday at 5 p.m.
Sampson County Sheriff's Office deputies are asking for the public's help locating a man who has been missing since June 21.
WRAL's Julian Grace spoke with the driver who was pulled over by a Sampson County deputy for going five miles under the speed limit. It left the driver feeling unsafe, he said.
A Sampson County man was in jail Thursday facing a slew of charges after authorities found illegal weapons, drugs and a dog that tested positive for methamphetamine during a search of his home.
Investigators have left the scene in Sampson County where two SBI agents were seriously injured on Friday.
Julian Grace, WRAL anchor/reporter
Sky 5 flies over the scene of an explosion in Sampson County that injured 2 State Bureau of Investigation agents.
Two State Bureau of Investigation agents were injured in an explosion in Sampson County early Friday, the agency said.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL reporter, Alfred Charles, WRAL.com managing editor, and Deborah Strange, WRAL digital journalist
A Sampson County woman said her security camera caught two thieves in the act as they broke into her home.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL reporter
