Luther Terry will spend 96 months in federal prison for selling crack cocaine twice near Weldon High School.
Two New York men sentenced on cigarette trafficking and identity theft counts which ended with their arrests at a local convenience store have been sentenced to federal prison.
Gerald Whitaker will spend 120 months in prison after Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III today sentenced the Scotland Neck man for distribution of heroin in federal court in Raleigh.
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.
Ten defendants in the Operation Rockfish police corruption case are scheduled for arraignment in Greenville on February 9 at 9 a.m., federal court records show.
A case from January where a man was holed up in a Scotland Neck motel room has now led to a three-count federal indictment.
A Scotland Neck man and Weldon man have been federally indicted for drug sales, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said in a statement.
United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker in a response opposing pretrial release of 13 of the 15 charged in the Operation Rockfish police corruption case spells out the specific number of transports as well the amount of purported drugs shipped and bribe and extortion payments received.
Two Scotland Neck men, one a ringleader in a thriving drug business, are among six people sentenced in a heroin and crack cocaine distribution conspiracy in the Rocky Mount area.
A schedule has been set in court proceedings for the so-called Rockfish 15, according to federal records.
