CARTHAGE — Deputies charged six people — five of them with charges related to selling drugs — after executing a search warrant near Carthage last week.
Moore County deputies, along with officers from the N.C. Department of Community Corrections and Carthage Police Department, executed the search warrant on Feb. 1 and seized 14 bindles of heroin, two grams of heroin, 26 grams of powder cocaine, 16 grams of marijuana, 43 dosage units of oxycodone, five dosage units of hydrocodone and drug paraphernalia. Total street value of the seized drugs is approximately $4,000, according the a press release from the Moore County Sheriff’s Office.
Those arrested were:
* Wilbert Andre Merritt Jr., 52, 150 Merritt Drive, Carthage — Possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine; possession of cocaine; possession with intent to sell and deliver heroin; possession of heroin; possession of marijuana; two counts of maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana paraphernalia; and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond: $250,000 secured.
* James Rodney McKeithen, 57, 1254 Joel Road, Carthage — Trafficking of opium; possession with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule II controlled substance; possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana; maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana paraphernalia; and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond: $250,000 secured.
* Rasool Nyeem Salahuddin, 19, 1307 Woodbridge Commons Way, Woodbridge, N.J. — Possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine; possession of cocaine; possession of marijuana; maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana paraphernalia; and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond: $75,000 secured.
* Alwakil Rashed Salahuddin, 24, 1307 Woodbridge Commons Way, Woodbridge, N.J. — Possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine; possession of cocaine; possession of marijuana; maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana paraphernalia; and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond: $75,000 secured.
* Jamil Muhaimin Ismail, 33, 150 Merritt Drive, Carthage — Possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine; possession of cocaine; possession with intent to sell and deliver heroin; possession of heroin; possession of marijuana; two counts of maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana paraphernalia; and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond: $30,000 secured.
* Brittany Dawn Yarbrough, 30, 1044 Old River Road, Carthage — Possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana paraphernalia. Bond: $1,500 secured.
All subjects were placed in the Moore County Detention Center and given a Feb. 13 District Court date.