Katoe Wardell Harris Sr. will stand trial in November after pleading not guilty this week to charges in his three-count federal indictment.

His arraignment in Raleigh had been expected to be continued but his attorney’s motion ended up being denied by District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle, who accepted Harris’s not guilty plea.

Court records indicate that Harris appeared before Boyle with his attorney and in the presence of the United States assistant attorney and a United States probation officer.

The jury trial will commence on November 13 at 10 a.m. at the United States Courthouse in Elizabeth City.

Harris was named in a three-count federal indictment based on a Halifax County Sheriff’s Office investigation which led to his local arrest in January in Roanoke Rapids.

In count one of the indictment the federal grand jury charges that Harris possessed with the intent to distribute crack. Count two charges that he possessed a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Count three charges that he had previously been convicted of a crime and knowingly possessed a firearm that was used in affecting commerce.

The indictment says that count one was committed after a prior felony conviction for a felony drug offense.