A Seaboard man whose brother is awaiting sentencing on federal drug charges has pled guilty and is also awaiting a federal sentencing, court records show.
Setbacks have delayed the sentencing for 14 Operation Rockfish defendants and a death in the family has delayed the arraignment of one who has yet to take a plea in the police corruption case, federal court records show.
Fourteen of the so-called Rockfish 15 are scheduled for sentencing on May 12, federal court records show.
WITN reports a 69-year-old Roanoke Rapids man was killed when a Bethel man crashed through the emergency room lobby of Vidant Medical Center in Greenville early this morning.
State Alcohol Law Enforcement agents confiscated 29 video slot machines from a Rich Square business Wednesday night.
Antonio Tillmon's arraignment, originally scheduled Tuesday along with nine other Operation Rockfish defendants, has been rescheduled for May 10.
Tuesday's arraignment of nine defendants in Operation Rockfish police corruption case offered pieces of evidence, including bribe payments, the United States Attorney's Office would have used had their cases gone to trial.
Senior United States District Court Judge Malcolm Howard today adjudged nine Operation Rockfish defendants guilty after they took pleas in the Northampton County police corruption case.
A Hollister man's request to take care of his business affairs through release before facing federal sentencing in a drug case was rejected this month by a United States magistrate judge, according to court records.
Sterling Moody, who was arrested in a 2013 DEA sting, will face sentencing on February 9 in Greenville.
