A Tuesday night traffic stop led to a search of a hotel room and the arrest of a Florida man on heroin charges.
The second person wanted in a July murder on Grant Drive outside Roanoke Rapids was taken into custody in Indiana Monday, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said in a statement this evening.
Two elementary schools in Halifax County received school supplies today and two more will get items soon following a donation drive by the sheriff’s office.
On Wednesday and Thursday evening the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division conducted operation Wrong Turn, a traffic checking station at an undisclosed location in the county.
Claude Luther Celestine proclaimed his innocence as he was escorted to the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office for processing in a murder last month on Grant Drive.
Two Roanoke Rapids area men face marijuana charges after Halifax County Sheriff’s Office deputies seized five marijuana plants following execution of a search warrant Tuesday off Cobler Drive.