The Rich Square Police Department and Murfreesboro Police Department initiated “Operation Simple Sweep” today with the arrest of Michael David Byrd.

The Rich Square Police Department is not immune to being a victim of crime, Chief Alan B. Roye said in a news release.

A man arrested last week for allegedly breaking into a Rich Square drug store now faces additional charges.

An Aulander man was charged this morning with using a winch to rip the door off a Rich Square pharmacy where, once inside, he allegedly stole more than $20,000 worth of prescription painkillers.

A 10-year-old boy died in a crash on Highway 305 near Rich Square Saturday night and three other people in the vehicle are in critical condition, according to the state Highway Patrol.

More information has emerged in a stand-off in Rich Square today, the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoksie reports.

In reviewing the 79 charges in Antwaan Deandre Clanton's file last week, Troy Smith Jr. made an error that cost him his job with Odom Correctional Institution — he missed a pending charge that would have forced the Weldon man to stay locked up.

A Rich Square man faces several charges following a weekend arrest by the Weldon Police Department.