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Staff Reports | Cleveland County Sheriff's Office Margaret Hager Greene CRIME – Cleveland County is a little safer and a woman is behind bars after a seizure of narcotics this past Friday by the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office Community Interdiction Team (CIT). In a press release sent to media on Monday evening, it stated of a vehicle search which resulted in a reported arrest of Margaret Hager Greene. On Friday, June 12, members of the CIT encountered a suspicious vehicle

Staff Reports | Kings Mountain Police Department KMPD officers discovered an indoor marijuana grow operation within the business. KINGS MOUNTAIN – On Feb. 19, 2026, Vice and Criminal Investigators with the Kings Mountain Police Department executed a search warrant at the commercial property known as “Ole Skool Hemp,” located at 243, 245, and 247 S. Battleground Avenue in the downtown area of Kings Mountain. The investigation began after officers received information regardin