UNCW MASCOT ARRESTED
Neighborhood acts on drug dealer and WPD responds
Recently we heard about
a woman tired of drug activity and shootings at or near her home at 8th
and Orange Street. She complains that no one is doing anything to protect
her so she went to a private security firm and paid to get them to help
patrol her home. This seems to be a waste of money for the homeowner and
a potential legal nightmare if the security guards tangle with the wrong
people or get into the way of police action. Police work is best left
to law enforcement officers.
A good example of how to handle situations that cause alarm in your neighborhood
would be how the neighbors all got together in the Hidden Forest subdivision
off of Oleander Drive. When they noticed a large number of cars making
quick stop and goes from the 505 Calley Court residence, they alerted
a neighbor, David Hursey, a Wilmington Police Officer. Hursey said, “It
doesn’t take a rocket scientist to imagine what is going on in that
house.”
Thomas Corey Moorefield 22, a UNCW student and president of the UNCW Surf
Club, as well as the UNCW Mascot, was arrested for possession with intent
to distribute, scales, maintaining a residence for the sale of drugs and
valium. Moorefield also has an earlier arrest with a court date strangely
enough of 8/30/05 for possession and drug paraphernalia.
(we guess that Moorefield plans on graduating this summer that is
why the court date is pushed to the end of the summer) Cathy Conners,
of Cary, NC, owns several houses in the neighborhood and rents them to
college students. Numerous complaints have been called into her and she
has failed to act, it took the neighbors concern to let the Wilmington
Police know of the potential dangers in their community.
When asked about the drug problem at UNCW there was a quick denial of
an existing drug problem on campus, yet last summer James Irby, the popular
head of the Sailing Club died of a lethal heroin overdose. The autopsy
report indicated that Irby was a well know heroin user and had many times
tried to kick the habit. It also stated that Irby’s body was found
in the bathroom of his campus apartment with a needle sticking out of
his arm. When asked today what the university plans on doing about this
student, whether or not he will be able to remain a student at UNCW, the
call to UNCW was directed to Captain Willis of the UNCW Police department.
Captain Willis said that it all depends on the dean’s perception
of how serious of a crime it was on whether or not any disciplinary action
will take place.
Since then we have seen the arrests of two individuals dealing cocaine
and other drugs out of their dorm room, there was a report of a UNCW student
arrested for 15 pounds of pot in Sampson County. National news came about
as the result of the arrest of a tennis star, 21-year-old Danilo Mendes
is off the team and no longer a student at the college, he was arrested
for selling 250 doses of the powerful drug ecstasy. Drugs, guns and cash
were seized in bust at Lansdowne. The group of folk arrested at that house
were supposedly profitable enough selling to college kids, that they bought
several expensive cars and other toys from their proceeds.
UNCW is certainly not the only university with a drug problem. But they
are one of the few not yet willing to admit it. This is an education facility,
professionals that know how to train and educate our young adults on how
to better prepare for the future. Maybe more of a focus needs to be directed
on educating safe behavior to some of these ill informed students and
less on athletics and social entertainment events.
Evidence of the misdirection of concern can be found in the public outrage
that student athletes caught hazing incoming freshmen were suspended from
the team. You would have thought that a no tolerance policy for hazing
would be easy enough to understand. But the parents and Athletic Director
did not see it that way and stomped their feet to protect this tradition
of humiliation and sexual harassment resulting in the replacement of the
Athletic Director Doppes.
Basketball players suspended with no public explanation and now this the
latest embarrassment to hit the National press, UNCW MASCOT ARRESTED
FOR DEALING DRUGS! Thanks Mr. Moorefield!
Moorefield was released on a $5,000 bond
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