BLADENBORO, N.C. (WECT) – Numerous community tips over the past several months led the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office Vice/Narcotics Unit to investigate drug activity in the Town of Bladenboro.
While investigating, the sheriff’s office was able to make undercover purchases of drugs on Anne Street and in Wateree Park.
“On Tuesday, August 6th, 2024, the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office Vice/Narcotics Unit, Community Impact Team, Criminal Investigation Division and Patrol Division executed a search warrant in the 500 block of Anne Street, Bladenboro North Carolina. Subsequently, warrants for Derrick Ian Locklear and Sabastion Jospha Mortis were issued for numerous narcotic violations,” the BCSO release states.
Locklear, a 43-year-old Bladenboro resident, was arrested on Monday, Aug. 19, in Robeson County and has been charged with:
- Three counts of sell schedule II substance
- Three counts of deliver schedule II substance
- Three counts of manufacture schedule II controlled substance
- Three counts of felony possession schedule II controlled substance
- Three counts of conspire sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance
- Three counts of maintain vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance
- Three counts of manufacture/sell/deliver/possess controlled substance within 1000 feet of a park
- Three counts of sell marijuana
- Three counts of deliver marijuana
- Two counts of conspire sell/deliver schedule VI controlled substance
- Three counts of manufacture schedule VI controlled substance
- Three counts of possess with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule VI controlled substance
- Three counts of possess with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance
- Conspire traffic methamphetamine
Locklear received a $815,000 secured bond and is being held in the Bladen County Detention Center.
The sheriff’s office is still looking for Sabastion Jospha Mortis, who is also a Bladenboro resident. Mortis has active arrest warrants for the following:
- Two counts of conspire to sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance
- Two counts of manufacture/sell/deliver/possess controlled substance within 1000 feet of a park
- Deliver marijuana
- Two counts of conspire sell/deliver schedule VI controlled substance
- Manufacture schedule VI controlled substance
“Sheriff James A. McVicker would like to thank the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration for their assistance with this investigation,” the release adds. “The Bladen County Sheriff Office is committed to the relentless pursuit of criminal elements that operate within and around Bladen County. All citizens are encouraged to contact the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office with any information they have pertaining to individuals selling illegal controlled substances in Bladen County.”
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