BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – A man from Riegelwood has been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official and resisting arrest, according to Captain Rodney Hester with the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office.

Wednesday, authorities were dispatched to a domestic call at the home of 57-year-old Joseph Lewis Branch, in the 70 block of Graham Blanks Road.

When deputies arrived on the scene, they say Branch came out of the home holding a golf club in a threatening manner. Deputies told Branch to put down the golf club several times.

When Branch complied, he then tried to go back into the home, and a deputy physically subdued the suspect to prevent him from doing so.

Authorities say Branch, who had been drinking alcohol, was intoxicated.

He is currently in the Bladen County Jail under a $4,000 bond.

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BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – A domestic dispute left two people injured and a Bladen County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle damaged.

Authorities said they were called to the 100 block of Smith Cabin Road in Garland around 5:45 p.m. on Monday. When they arrived, they found Erika Williams Pearson, 31, with a cut on her hand and James Anthony Hunt, 26, with knife wounds on his back and chest area, according to Captain Rodney Hester. The wounds were not deep and EMS personnel treated them both at the scene after they both refused to be taken to the hospital.

Pearson told authorities that when she attempted to leave after an argument, Hunt grabbed a bag from her shoulder so she cut him with a knife. Once Hunt was put into a patrol vehicle to be taken to the magistrate’s office, Hester said, Hunt began beating his head against the rear window, causing minor damage.

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – A man charged in connection to a murder in Wilmington made his first court appearance on Monday.

U.S. Marshals arrested Terrell Robinson at a home in the 200 block of Dunham Street in Elizabethtown last week.

He was wanted in connection to the murder of 22-year-old David McPhatter, of Riegelwood. McPhatter died after a shooting in the 800 block of Castle Street during a fight in May.

District Court Judge Sandra R. Criner read the charges against Robinson Monday morning and explained that he could face life in prison.

Robinson decided to go with a court-appointed attorney. He is being held in the New Hanover County Jail with no bond.

Another suspect, 20-year-old Cody Gurrero, turned himself in a few days after the shooting.