In one day, the Roanoke Rapids Police Department captured two fugitives, one from Florida and one from New Jersey and arrested one man for harboring the Florida fugitive.

Cross, left, and Harris.

The capture of the fugitives Friday came almost within an hour of each other when narcotics agents first received a tip that one from Florida was reportedly living in Roanoke Rapids, Captain Andy Jackson said.

Shortly before 4:30 p.m. Narcotics Agent Jamie Hardy and Narcotics Sergeant Tommy Hathaway, along with Sergeant Mike Moseley, went to the 400 block of Carolina Street looking for Anthony Kyle Medders, 21, of Port St. Lucie, Florida.

At the house they encountered Robert Brett Harris, of Jarratt, Virginia, who they would end up arresting for resisting a public officer, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The officers located a car belonging to Medders at the residence, Jackson said, and the detectives ordered him to come out.

Harris, however, came out and told the officers he didn't know Medders and had never seen him.

Moseley and Hathaway noticed the smell of marijuana coming from inside the house. Harris admitted to the officers marijuana had been smoked but when the officers tried to step inside, Harris allegedly tried to block them.

Once inside, the officers discovered the butt of a blunt, commonly called a roach, on a table, and also discovered a bong beside the sink.

The canine unit arrived and a search yielded Medders, who was hiding behind a door.

Medders was wanted for apparently skipping his sentencing in Florida and was jailed on $30,000 bond.

Harris was jailed on $5,000 secured bond for the resist and marijuana charges, as well as a count of harboring an escapee.

Meanwhile, shortly before 5:45 p.m., Officer Chris Woodruff responded to a disturbance call at the parking lot of CJ's Bingo and recognized Timothy Lanier Cross, 29, of Creekside Court. Cross was wanted by the Middlesex Probation Department in New Jersey and taken into custody on $40,000 bond.

Jackson said the disturbance called was related to an argument.