BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – In response to complaints from the neighborhood, narcotics officers investigated and made drug purchases from a residence in Elizabethtown recently.

Keil Jamal Sands, 20, and Raheem Jermain Byrd, 24, were arrested at different times when officers purchased drugs at 312 East King Street, according to Elizabethtown Police Department Chief Robert Kinlaw.

Both were reportedly charged with possession with the intent to sell or deliver marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, selling marijuana and delivering marijuana.

Sands was in the Bladen County Jail under a $6,000 bond at the time of this post. Byrd was released on a $7,000 secured bond.

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BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Milton Willis Jr. is facing 50 counts of various drug charges and was booked in the Bladen County Jail with a $1.058 million secured bond.

Willis, who was taken into custody around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, had outstanding warrants from an undercover operation and search warrant that was conducted at a home on Sand Pit Road in November, according to Captain Rodney Hester with the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office.

At the time of the arrest, investigators reportedly seized 14.5 grams of marijuana from Willis and charged him with simple possession of marijuana.

Here is a list of charges that he faces now:

• Six counts of delivering marijuana
• Three counts of conspiring to sell cocaine
• Two counts of conspiring to deliver cocaine
• Eight counts of possession with the intent to sell and deliver
• Seven counts of manufacturing marijuana
• Four counts of selling marijuana
• Two counts of maintaining a dwelling for the selling of drugs
• One count of conspiring to sell marijuana
• Six counts of selling or delivering marijuana
• One count of conspiracy to deliver cocaine
• Eight counts of possession of drug paraphernalia
• One count of simple possession of marijuana
• One count of felony probation violation

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