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.
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.
Gerald Whitaker has accepted a plea deal offered to him by the government and will face sentencing in February, federal court records show.
Luther Allen Terry has entered a plea in federal court and his sentencing is tentatively scheduled for the January 4 term, records show.
A hearing is scheduled next week to determine whether to extend pretrial motions in the case of 15 people charged in the Operation Rockfish police corruption case.
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 senior United States probation officer is seeking a change in conditions for one of the defendants on pretrial release in the Operation Rockfish case.
A motion has been filed to extend a pretrial motions deadline as well as continue the arraignment date and trial of the so-called Rockfish 15, a police corruption case in Northampton County.
A plea arrangement is on the table for a Scotland Neck man facing federal heroin charges, according to court records filed in the matter.
