The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following:

• A New Bern man was arrested Thursday for the theft of a $25,000 sound board from the Roanoke Rapids Theatre.

Chief Jeff Hinton said Jason Louis Lis, 29, was arrested by detectives Charles Vaught and Corey Dixon and charged with felonious larceny and possession of stolen goods.

Lis was arrested in Havelock by city and Havelock detectives. 

The sound board was recovered. Lis went before a magistrate in Havelock for bond purposes.

• Richard James Bain II, 71, of Roanoke Rapids was arrested around noon Thursday by Officer T.L. Mason and charged with being a sex offender on school property.

Hinton said Bain was on Manning Elementary School property to pick up a friend's child and had a female accompany him. His court date is April 7 and he went to jail on $10,000 bond.