N.C. police arrest three for Dillon County robbery

Three suspects were arrested Friday after deputies said they robbed a man at gunpoint near South of the Border early Friday, according to a Dillon County Sheriff’s office incident report.

The incident happened at about 8 a.m. at the South of the Border Motel in Hamer when two suspects approached a victim, pointed guns at him and demanded money.

The victim gave the suspects his wallet and the two men fled in a burgundy Ford Taurus toward the North Carolina state line, according to the report.

A short time later, North Carolina authorities stopped the car the victim described in Rowland, N.C., and arrested Tavoasio Levon Smith, 19, of Lumberton, N.C., and Malcolm Jamall Brown, 20, of Litlonia, Ga. A 16-year-old male from Lumberton was also taken into custody. All three remain in custody in North Carolina. Dillon County Sheriff’s deputies plan
to seek extradition on all three suspects.