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The 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish will be held in federal custody until their formal detention hearings, according to Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp.
The 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish will be held in federal custody until their formal detention hearings, according to Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department is seeking two people who have outstanding warrants in separate cases.
As detention hearings for the 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish are expected to begin today in Raleigh, Northampton County Sheriff Jack Smith told the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoskie he has fired the five deputies involved.
The Operation Rockfish police corruption sting contains a 54-count federal indictment that alleges 13 current and former law enforcement officers and two other individuals protected narcotics shipments and cash proceeds during transit along the East Coast for what they believed was a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was actually an undercover operation by the FBI.
A widespread investigation into police corruption in Northampton County was spearheaded by information received by the Halifax County Sheriff's Office which was then passed on to the FBI.
