Suspect, Curtis Sanders Cromartie, Arrested in Shooting of Local Man
According to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday, November 6, 2021, Franklin Quentil Pharr, 37 of Elizabethtown, was with some friends at a residence off of Mercer-Mill Road when he was shot in the torso by an unknown black male. Pharr went to Bladen County Hospital where he was treated for his injuries.
On Saturday, January 1, the Florence County Sheriff’s Office arrested Cromartie during a traffic stop. Cromartie waived extradition and was returned to Bladen County on Thursday, January 6, and taken before the magistrate where he was placed under a $290,000 secure bond and placed in the Bladen County Detention Center. At Cromartie’s first appearance in Bladen County District Court on January 7, Cromartie’s bond was raised to $1,000,000 secured.
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