A majority of the crimes involved unlocked vehicles parked at homes on Hunter Way. But vehicles parked on Mitchell Avenue, Torrey Pines Drive, Parkridge Drive, Kelly Lane, Shady Lane and Berel Road also were hit. Thousands of dollars worth of electronics, CDs, tools, prescription medicine, cellular telephones and knives were reported missing from the vehicles.

The Clayton Police Department urges residents to secure valuables and lock their vehicles, even when parked at home. Most of the car larcenies in the past two weeks have taken place in residential areas.

Anyone with information about the larcenies is asked to call the Clayton Police Department at 553-4611. A cash reward is available for information that leads to the arrest of those responsible.

Last week, Clayton police investigated six reports of car larcenies in Glen Laurel and Riverwood Athletic subdivisions.

Money stolen from store
Money was stolen from a downtown Clayton gift shop Friday, police reported. Fancy That owner Deborah Hammond said $250 was stolen from an opened cash register at the Main Main Street shop, according to a report.

Man charged in assault, theft Smithfield Police arrested a man suspected in two crimes reported Saturday and Sunday. Timothy Alvin Bragg, 41, address listed as general delivery, was placed in the Johnston Jail early Sunday morning and charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and larceny. He was placed under bonds totaling $10,500.

At 10:04 p.m. Saturday, the BP station at 817 S. Third Street reported the theft of $5.69 worth of Busch Ice Beer. Then at 12:24 a.m., Linda Faye Spruill, 42, of 822 Blount St. reported that Bragg, an acquaintance assaulted her with a knife at her home. She suffered severe lacerations.

Bragg was taken into custody at 1:11 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area near S. Sixth and Dundee streets.

Assault suspect charged Friday evening, Glenn Elbert Wall, 50, of 212 N. Fourth St., Smithfield was arrested at the Johnston County jail on a count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. He was placed under a $40,000 bond.

Police arrest forgery suspect A Dunn man was arrested at the Johnston Jail Thursday night on two counts of forgery of an instrument and two counts of uttering a forged instrument. Eddie Houston Jackson, Jr., 36, was arrested on warrants filed Feb. 13, and he was placed under a $40,000 bond.

Wreck injures three Three people were injured in a wreck on North Bright Leaf Blvd. Friday evening.

At 6:58 p.m., Amber Nicole Stewart of 120 Ridgewood Dr., Middlesex was driving a Mitsubishi east on Ava Gardner Ave. when she went to make a left turn on North Bright Leaf and pulled into the path of a GMC driven by Frances Casey Liverman Johnson, 2769 NC Hwy. 96, Four Oaks.

Stewart said she did not see Johnson’s vehicle. She and two passengers, Ashley Chandler Ballantyne and David Lacy Hocutt, were treated in the emergency room at Johnston Memorial Hospital and released. Stewart was charged with failure to yield right of way.

Store reports counterfeit bill OshKosh B’Gosh at Carolina Premium Outlets is the latest among seven businesses to report getting a counterfeit $100 bill. A store employee reported Thursday evening that the store took in the bill sometime between 6 p.m. March 21 and 8 a.m. March 25.

Man accused of assault
Authorities arrested a Clayton-area man Monday morning after his girlfriend claimed he assaulted her for refusing to have sex, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Nick Lee Austin, 29, of 400 Southerland Road, was charged with assaulting a female. A woman of the same address told deputies that Austin threw a glass candleholder that hit her in the stomach, said Tammy Amaon, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office.

The woman also said that Austin threw a dresser that hit her forearm, Amaon said. The dispute apparently happened after Austin requested sex and the woman refused, Amaon said.

Austin was held with no bond.

Man arrested for crack cocaine
Authorities arrested a Smithfield man on Friday for having more than three grams of crack cocaine, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Deputies conducted a traffic stop on U.S. 70 near Clayton and searched the vehicle of William Thomas Perry, 23, of 615 Barbour Road. They found crack cocaine, a razor blade and a shotgun shell, spokeswoman Tammy Amaon said.

Perry was charged with possession with intent to sell or deliver drugs. He was jailed under a $40,000 bond.

Woman charged in meth case
A Pikeville woman wanted in Johnston County for buying more than the legal amount of over-the-counter medicine containing pseudoephedrine was arrested Sunday.

Jamie Champion Marks, 27, was wanted as part of last year’s Operation Pill Crusher, which targeted people who bought too much pseudoephedrine-containing medicine. Pseudoephedrine can be used to make methamphetamine.

Marks was jailed under a $750 bond.