A Weldon man pleaded guilty this week to two of the three federal drug counts lodged against him.

Weldon Manik Jackson appeared in United States court in Wilmington before District Judge Richard E. Myers II.

Minute entries contained in his federal court case show he pleaded guilty to counts 1 and 3 and the clerk was advised to enter a not guilty plea on count 2.

Sentencing is set before Myers during the January 5 term of court.

Count 1 of the indictment says on or about April 17, 2019, in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the defendant did knowingly and intentionally possessed with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, a quantity of cocaine base and a quantity of marijuana.

Count 3 says on or about the same date in count 1 Jackson, knowing he had previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, knowingly possessed a firearm.

Count 2, the one in which the clerk was advised to enter a not guilty plea, says Jackson possessed a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office in March had charged Jackson after deputies went to a residence in the 1000 block of Elm Street in Weldon to serve a secure custody order.

The person deputies were looking for was not there but they noticed Jackson and knew he was wanted on the federal warrant.

Jackson was arrested for the warrant and deputies located 25 pills of oxycodone, 21 individually wrapped bags of crack cocaine and two bags of powdered cocaine from Jackson's pants pockets.