Hit & Run Driver Charged With Causing $10,000 Damage To Smithfield Business

Police have made an arrest in a hit and run accident that caused $10,000 in damages to a Smithfield business. Last Saturday, employees at Neuse Indoor Lumber discovered a seven foot by nine foot hole in the side of the building. Thursday night, 24-year-old Adam Clayton Stewart of Peach Orchard Road, Four Oaks was charged with reckless driving and hit and run. Stewart reportedly told police he was too drunk to remember what happened. Smithfield Police found his Ford truck heavily damaged on Sanders Street in Four Oaks hours after the crash. Stewart was jailed on a $5,000 bond.