North Myrtle Beach police arrested 14 people along three city blocks of Main Street during the early morning hours of Sunday, May 17, 2026. This occurred during a Harley Bike Week weekend that left multiple officers injured. The department had to call Horry County Police for mutual aid. **Every person booked was from North Carolina, and the largest cluster came from a single county roughly 90 minutes north of the Grand Strand. These incidents have raised concerns about the North Myrtle Beach Sky Bar arrests**.
The arrests occurred within a one-hour window between roughly 12:26 a.m. and 1:27 a.m. The action centered on the Sky Bar at 214 Main Street and Ducks Night Life at 231 Main Street. Four of the 14, the group most widely reported in the initial coverage, were charged after a fight outside Sky Bar at about 1:17 a.m. They were among the latest in a string of incidents that placed Sky Bar at the center of city enforcement actions twice in 72 hours.
The recent events have drawn significant attention to the nightlife scene in the area, particularly regarding the North Myrtle Beach Sky Bar arrests.
## The Sky Bar Sequence and North Myrtle Beach Sky Bar arrests
Understanding the Impact of North Myrtle Beach Sky Bar Arrests
The first call came at 12:26 a.m. at Ducks Night Life, where 21-year-old Ocoee Hunt of Rowland, North Carolina, was charged with third-degree assault and battery. According to the police report relayed by WMBF, Hunt told officers the victim “said something negative a year ago about her dead father” [WMBF, 2026]. Within about 10 minutes, three more arrests followed at the same address — Sequoria Locklear, 26, and Silas Locklear, 21, both of Rowland, and Keilo Hunt, 22, of Maxton — all charged with fighting in a mutual combat.
The action shifted to Sky Bar around 12:45 a.m. Twenty-five-year-old Marcus Brayboy of Pembroke was arrested on charges of third-degree assault and battery and disobeying a police officer. A security guard reported that Brayboy had punched him several times. The guard left the scene with a cut lip and a bleeding right elbow. Security footage corroborated the guard’s account, and police reported that Brayboy was intoxicated and attempted to run away.
Ten minutes later, officers arrested Haniya Locklear, 24, from Lumberton on charges of fighting and resisting arrest at the Sky Bar entrance [WMBF, 2026]. This was followed by the 1:17 a.m. fight that led to the four names most prominently reported by WPDE. Haley Chyann Deese, 22, of Maxton; Nakiyla Hope Brayboy, 22, of Lumberton; Ashton Corey Woods, 43, of Maxton; and Noah David Major Brayboy, 22, of Pembroke were each charged with fighting under the city ordinance [WPDE, 2026]. Woods sustained a black eye in the incident [WPDE, 2026].
The night concluded in a dirt lot near 233 Main Street, where at about 1:27 a.m., officers arrested Caleb Hunt, 21, of Maxton; Phoenix Maynor, 30, of Pembroke; and Dylan Lowry, 26, of Lumberton on fighting charges. Maynor faced an additional resisting-arrest charge. A separate Main Street arrest at about 1:20 a.m. involved Dakota Scott, 30, of Red Springs on fighting and drug possession charges. Officers found four white pills in a baggie on his person. All 14 were booked at North Myrtle Beach Jail and released later that Sunday.
## Officers Injured, Mutual Aid Called
The disturbances also had a human cost. Multiple North Myrtle Beach Police Department officers were injured during the incidents, and one officer required medical evaluation [WMBF, 2026]. The department reported that this officer was expected to make a quick recovery [WMBF, 2026].
The volume of calls during this one-hour stretch on Main Street overwhelmed the NMBPD. The Horry County Police Department was called in to provide mutual aid. This detail is significant for Horry County residents: when one municipal force requests assistance from the county to handle a three-block bar district, the county taxpayer bears the cost. Mutual aid is a budget item before it becomes a headline, and the bill for an overtime response on Main Street does not end at the city limit.
In a statement provided to reporters, the NMBPD said: “Violence, disorderly conduct, and assaultive behavior will not be tolerated in our city. Officers maintained a strong presence throughout the event and continued proactive enforcement efforts to address criminal activity and ensure the safety of everyone attending” [WMBF, 2026].
The NMBPD stated: “Violence, disorderly conduct, and assaultive behavior will not be tolerated in our city. Officers maintained a strong presence throughout the event and continued proactive enforcement efforts to ensure everyone’s safety” [WMBF, 2026].
## A Bar Already on the City’s Radar
The mass arrests outside Sky Bar were not the first time the establishment had come into conflict with North Myrtle Beach enforcement that week. Just 50 hours earlier — Thursday, May 15, at roughly 1:23 a.m. — NMBPD officers arrested Sky Bar manager Alexander Paragas, 28, for violating the city noise ordinance [WMBF, 2026].
The ordinance, adopted Oct. 4, 2021, caps sound at 60 decibels between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and at 80 decibels during daytime hours. Officers measured 102 decibels at Sky Bar at the time of the arrest [WMBF, 2026]. According to the responding officer, Paragas said “that was the lowest he could turn the music down” [WMBF, 2026]. The same week, DJ Stephen Rest was cited Tuesday at a measured 82 decibels, and Paragas himself was warned Wednesday at 97 decibels [WMBF, 2026]. Rest told WMBF: “He told me that I was being ticketed for sound violation. There’s no warning; it’s just, I’m getting a ticket” [WMBF, 2026].
Sky Bar pushed back publicly. The bar posted its own decibel readings on social media contradicting the police measurements [WMBF, 2026]. **That dispute is the surface of a longer fight between Sky Bar’s ownership and city hall that predates this Bike Week by years.** Owner Michael Moshoures sued the City of North Myrtle Beach over the noise ordinance in 2022, and that litigation continued through 2025.
The result is a venue that has been in court with the city for four years, was the site of a manager’s arrest on a Thursday, and was the epicenter of a mass arrest sweep the following Sunday. Whether the city’s enforcement posture is a coordinated response to a recurring problem or a separate set of unrelated calls, the pattern is now on the public record.
## Who the Arrestees Were
The most striking line in the WMBF arrest log is the hometown column. All 14 people taken into custody listed North Carolina addresses. The geography tightens further on a closer look: Maxton, Lumberton, Pembroke, Rowland and Red Springs are clustered in and around Robeson County, roughly a 90-minute drive north of North Myrtle Beach.
Police were careful about what they would and would not say about the broader event. The NMBPD could not verify whether the 14 arrestees were participating in Harley Bike Week. The arrests happened during the event, in the bar district that hosts it, but the department drew a line at confirming attendance. That is the honest framing, and it is the one this story will hold to.
What the city did confirm is that its officers responded to a sustained run of disturbances along three blocks of Main Street, in a window of about one hour, that produced 14 bookings, multiple injuries to its own officers, and a request for county backup. None of those bookings, by the city’s own accounting, belonged to a Horry County resident. That is a clean fact and it carries its own weight: the people fighting in the street were not the people who live on it.
The economic case for hosting Bike Week rests on the visitor traffic it brings to the Grand Strand. The cost case includes the kind of weekend Main Street had on May 17. Both belong in the public conversation about what the city’s posture should be the next time the bikes roll in.
## Conclusion
The next Bike Week weekend will attract the same crowds to the same three blocks of Main Street. The NMBPD has indicated that its enforcement posture will remain firm. Two officers have already suffered injuries, one bar manager is dealing with a noise charge, and a lengthy court case persists between city hall and the establishment at the center of these incidents. The outcome of the department’s commitment to continued “proactive enforcement” will be evident in whether the upcoming Memorial Day weekend is quiet or results in another one-hour window of 14 arrests.
## Further Reading
North Myrtle Beach Sky Bar arrests
north-myrtle-beach-sky-bar-arrests- https://wpde.com/news/local/4-arrested-after-weekend-fight-outside-north-myrtle-beach-bar-video-assauly-ordinance-skybar-maxton-nmb-officer-woods-brayboy-deese
north-myrtle-beach-sky-bar-arrests- https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/19/more-than-dozen-nc-arrested-during-fighting-north-myrtle-beachs-main-street-bar-area/
north-myrtle-beach-sky-bar-arrests- https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/17/officers-hurt-harley-bike-week-related-fights-north-strand/
north-myrtle-beach-sky-bar-arrests- https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/15/police-arrest-manager-north-myrtle-beachs-sky-bar-violating-noise-ordinance/
north-myrtle-beach-sky-bar-arrests- https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/19/sky-bar-community-react-after-managers-arrest-over-alleged-noise-ordinance-violations/
