Basic Needs Ministry - Cleveland Crime Cam

A cash reward was advertised payable to the person responsible for securing the arrest and conviction of the person who shot and killed Colleen Blackburn. A reward was set up and is being coordinated by business owners Steve Duty, Duty Tire & Service Center, 405 Tryon Road, Garner, NC 27529; 919-772-6100, and Ray Saums, Ray's Grocery No. 5, 7940 White Oak Road, Garner, NC 27529; 919-772-3210.

Colleen Blackburn

Unsolved killing: Who shot and killed Colleen Blackburn? Although this wasn't in Cleveland Township, many folks in the community knew and loved her. She worked for two Garner businesses and attended Wake Tech.

A cash reward will be paid to the individual who secures the arrest and conviction of any person removing donated goods illegally from Basic Needs Ministry.  Currently the reward is offered on those individuals performing illegal activities in the film clips below. The reward is being paid by individuals and not Basic Needs Ministry. Contact Ron Still for more information at 661-6565.  

Please remember while watching these security camera shots that Basic Needs is a community charity. It provides free clothing gift certificates to over 300 community churches, schools, and agencies to provide to people in need. There is no need to steal anything.  Local fire victims can get other free merchandise with their recent fire certificate. The clothing is either new or like new, sorted to ensure top quality, and displayed by category and size. Why would these folks risk a criminal charge and record? Well, some did stock their yard sales, flea market sales, and e-bay businesses. Please note that many of our local criminals are equal opportunity and are busy around the community, which means you might be next to supply them.

Watch Cleveland's charity donations being stolen. These are self contained security camera files with various controls for enhancement, which are provided for law enforcement and media. The longer the play time, the larger the file. To view these, you may select the file and click on Run or download after setting your firewall to allow EXE files. Save on your hard drive. If your time is valuable, start the download and go to lunch. View on your return. Use the brightness control for night and shadow shots.

If you recognize the people in the video, please contact the Johnston County Sheriff: 919-989-5010 or submit your Crime Tip.

Camera time must be adjusted slightly to match recorder time with exact EST.

Wanted for Stealing Community Assets – Reward Offered

Watching – No Current Reward
  • October 8, 2009, 16:30:16-16:31:30 - Did someone think the camera wouldn't pull that in? Could the distinctive truck be related to our apparent thief?
  • October 8, 2009, 11:44:29-11:50:50 - Blue car pulls in to let lady and young girl shop(lift).
  • October 8, 2009, 00:44:24-00:47:53 - Same two characters from 77 minutes ago loading up again. They really need a bigger vehicle. They are getting faster by 4 minutes.
  • October 7, 2009, 23:20:50-23:27:35 - light car pulls in and male and female load it up
  • October 7, 2009, 11:09:59-11:13:08 - guy probably in a dark custom SUV shopping
  • October 6, 2009, 16:56:59-16:59:24 - The return of the three load lady and her nice SUV.
  • October 5, 2009, 1:36:15-1:43:43 - Next night, same truck and two guys. Note the tattoo. Look how fast they move. Wonder why Mama could ot make the trip?
  • October 5, 2009, 12:49:07-12:59:09 - This lady shopper prefers daylight and really needs to take her shopping cart. Her arms must be gettings tired after three loads and surely her back hurts from bending over so long. Look at her very nice SUV pull out.
  • October 4, 2009, 1:32:06-1:38:12 - Nice 4-door pickup with big Mama and her two guys. Don't know if the white car spotting the stuff 90 minutes earlier was theirs or not. Not at all careful about sizes or colors or fabrics. Nice truck, just not Belk's kind of folks.
  • June 24, 2009, 16:22:59-16:38:39 - Usual white male returns, drops off some goods, and puts a serious dump in the dumpster. Leaves broken glass in the parking lot.
  • June 23, 2009, 14:53:30-15:08:00 - Sheriff escorts suspect to ensure return of stolen property. Same white male, same truck, etc. Note he drops a box of trash in the dumpster.
  • June 23, 2009, 12:58:30-1:00:30 - Appears to be our regular white guy shopper in his black truck. Watch him enter from the top and pull in behidn the container and sit before moving forward to check out the daily goods.
  • June 18, 2009, 00:01:28-00:07:49 - Familiar white guy with dark pickup steals bikes - check flea markets
  • June 9, 2009, 1:22:16-1:28:00 - He came with his black truck, checked the dumpster, and made off with at least 4 sets of golf clubs and bags from the sales area.
  • February 27, 2008, 22:33:59-22:35:44 - Watch our favorite night shopper in action.
  • February 21, 2009, 14:31:59-15:05 - Watch the lady in the sweat shirt eventually exit with her new, but unpaid for coat.
  • February 20, 2009, 21:37-21:42 - Black male loads up his back seat and truck.
  • February 20, 2009, 16:29:14-16:39 - Just the employee from the neighboring business stealing again.
  • December 14, 2008, 17:26:15-17:27:42 - Truck pulls in forward, backs in, black man loads small items and leaves.
  • November 28, 2008, 20:57:45-21:09:30 – Watch a 4-door white/light car with sun roof get stuffed by black or Hispanic couple.  They loot and steal hundreds of items from under the Christmas tree from clothing to a stainless waste can to a set of china.  Gee, he can even drive backwards with the lights off.   
  • July 31, 2008, 22:02:36-22:05:35 - Timing is only for the action and has been corrected from the recorded time by 1'11." Watch a black or Hispanic couple with a black truck take 2 yard benches.
  • February 27, 2008, 22:33:59-22:36:05 - She's back, same car, same outfit and there goes another car load
  • February 7, 2008, 20:07:08-20:08:49 - Lady pulls in white car, loads up, and drives out
  • January 31, 2008, 22:31:08-22:34:20 - Lady loads up on charity's donations and pulls out, disappointing the next late night shopper
  • January 30, 2008, 21:46:40-21:52:41 - Lady drives her black car in and loads it up - she's busy the cell phone and has a distinctive jacket with "fur trim" on her hood - jeans
  • January 30, 2008, 17:30-17:52 - business neighbors take donation
  • January 4, 2008, 21:05:54-21:10:14 - black SUV pulls in and drops off a bag and two boxes, before its three occupants trot around filling it and even start to drive off with one thief running to catch up
  • January 4, 2008, 19:40:40-19:43:05 - 2 women and a man load a sedan in 3 minutes 20 seconds - possibly Hispanic, took the donations from more than 5 donors
  • January 1, 2008, 21:00:08-21:05:45 - woman and man steal car load in 5 1/2 minutes - note her hair and his tennis shoes, dark sedan, stealing the contributions from 9 families
  • December 27, 2007, 21:22:00-21:27:45 - man and woman fully load a sedan in 5 minutes
  • December 26, 2007, 14:40:53-14:47:28 - man drives by in red vehicle, turns around, pulls into building and returns only to take a nice child's toy seat with wheels
  • December 23, 2007, 20:00:25-20:04:57 - unidentified heavyset white male w/glasses wearing blue jeans and navy pullover - driving white van with ladders on roof - steals commercial lawn trimmer with Briggs and Stratton engine - about 3.5 HP - Why does he appear disgusted when he leaves?
  • December 23, 2007, 07:19:50-07:20:05 - unidentified bicycling black male on his frequent morning visits steals new bike seat and carries it off in back pack
  • December 14, 2007, 13:15-13:21 - car approaches in center, but looting is in the very lower left of the screen - plate reported by witnesses as North Carolina - WYA-9342 - unidentified regular after hours "customer" - short, slender, white woman with long dark hair, who is believed to be selling at Johnston's flea markets
  • December 13, 2007, 14:51-15:08 - looting, but after loading other things, has only enough room to steal one big speaker (second one taken later) - interrupted by USP delivery, drives away, comes back, and just after the end of the clip drives off after another UPS delivery interruption - plate reported by witnesses as North Carolina WYA-9342 - unidentified regular after hours "customer" - short, slender, white woman with long dark hair, who is believed to be selling at Johnston's flea markets
  • December 12, 2007, 22:06-22:08 - black woman with head covering loading her car with donations for 2 minutes