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CHARGED: Man sells drugs to undercover agents

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012, 9:08am
David Allen Mathis (Source: Bladen Co. Sheriff's Office)

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – A man in Elizabethtown is facing charges after selling marijuana to undercover agents.

According to Captain Rodney Hester, officers with the Bladen County Sheriff's Office, Elizabethtown Police Department, White Lake Police Department and NC ALE worked together to execute a search warrant of David Allen Mathis' home.

The search warrant stemmed from undercover operations at the home after several citizens complained of drug activity in the area. Hester said the Bladen County Sheriff's Office Narcotic unit made controlled purchases of marijuana from Mathis within the last 30 days.

According to Hester, investigators found marijuana, digital scales, baggies, marijuana and other items of evidence during execution of the search warrant.

Mathis was charged with:

-Possession With Intent to Sell and Deliver Marijuana.

-Manufacture Marijuana.

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CHARGED: Deputies spot marijuana seeds during traffic stop

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Friday, October 5th, 2012, 2:01pm
Pedro Joaquin Garcia-Zuniga (Source: Bladen Co. Sheriff's Office)

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Deputies with the Bladen County Sheriff's Office arrested a man after an early morning traffic stop for a number of drug-related charges.

According to Captain Rodney Hester with the sheriff's office, Pedro Joaquin Garcia-Zuniga, 18 of Clarkton, was stopped in the 4000 block of US 701 S for his tail lights being out. Deputies noticed marijuana seeds and stems in plain view as Garcia-Zuniga looked for his driver's license.

Hester said a search of the vehicle revealed a stolen and loaded .380 caliber Bersa semi-automatic handgun and four individual bags of marijuana.

According to Hester, several cigars had been cut open with a razor blade and the tobacco removed which is consistent with users replacing the tobacco with marijuana.

Garcia-Zuniga was charged with:

• Possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana

• Manufacturing marijuana

• Possession of a stolen handgun

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Dispose of unwanted prescription drugs at Dublin Peanut Fest.

Submitted by Sarah Crandall, Web Producer
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012, 1:14pm
Dispose of unwanted prescription drugs at Dublin Peanut Fest.

DUBLIN, NC (WECT) – Folks can safely get rid of any unwanted prescription medicine soon at the Dublin Peanut Festival, to be held Sept. 15., according to a news release from sheriff's officials.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office, along with the county health department and the Drug Enforcement Administration, will have a tent available for people to take the unwanted drugs to.

The service is free, and those dropping of the medicine will remain anonymous with no questions asked.

Last year alone, 377,080 pounds of prescription drugs were disposed of in America at 5,300 sites operated by the DEA and its law enforcement partners.

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Detectives find more than 100 marijuana plants growing in nearby field

Submitted by Nadine Maeser, Reporter, News Producer
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012, 11:08am

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Detectives with the Bladen County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit found nearly 200 marijuana plants growing in a field.

An anonymous tip led officers to the plants in Tar Heel.  They were growing in a grassy area by the Bladen-Robeson line.

The plants had a street value of about $210,000 and were cut down and destroyed last week.

No arrests have been made in connection to the growing operation.

If you have any information about the plants, you can call the Narcotics Unit at 910-862-6777. Tips made to the sheriff's office will remain anonymous.

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Undercover drug operation involving painkillers leads to man’s arrest

Submitted by Sarah Crandall, Web Producer
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 12:59pm
Undercover drug operation involving painkillers leads to man’s arrest

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The Bladen County Sheriff’s Office recently arrested a man on several drug-related charges, according a press release from Captain Rodney Hester.

Tristan McRae Singletary, 29, was arrested July 3 following an undercover operation. Authorities say a highly-addictive pain medication, called Opana, was bought from Singletary at his home in the 50 block of Cindy Lane in Bladenboro.

The operation was sparked by complaints that prescription painkillers were being sold at Singletary’s home.

As a result, Singletary was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver a schedule II controlled substance; manufacturing a schedule II controlled substance; maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of keeping or selling a controlled substance; selling a schedule II controlled substance; delivering a schedule II controlled substance.

His bond has been set at $75,000.

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CHARGED: Using boxers to sneak drugs to inmate

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Monday, June 18th, 2012, 10:40am

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Anicet Delgado Ibarra was arrested Sunday for trying to sneak drugs to an inmate in the Bladen County Jail.

According to Captain Rodney Hester with the sheriff's office, Ibarra, 20 of Elizabethtown, brought three pairs of white boxers to the jail to give to an inmate.

A jailer found the liner of the underwear had been cut in the front and plastic baggies filled with a white powdery substance had been pushed into the cut area.

Ibarra was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance in jail.

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Percocet, ecstasy found during checkpoint; out-of-towners arrested

Submitted by Ashley Barker, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012, 11:24am
Percocet, ecstasy found during checkpoint; out-of-towners arrested

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Two out-of-towners were arrested during a driver’s license checkpoint near Tar Heel around 9:15 p.m. on Saturday.

A black 2002 Infinite approached the checkpoint and deputies could smell the odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, according to Captain Rodney Hester with the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office.

When the vehicle was searched, deputies reportedly found a set of digital scales and three individually packed bags of marijuana. Percocet and ecstasy pills were also found, Hester said.

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