03/28/2024
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The Bladen County Sheriff’s Office has announced several drug arrests in the county.

According to Bladen County Sheriff Jim McVicker, a joint operation of the between the Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina Probation and Parole, Elizabethtown Police Department and Bladenboro Police Department, several searches were made of residences of persons on probation January 14. Those searches resulted in the arrest of  Thomas Streeter, 29, of 255 Peter Cromartie Road, Garland. Streeter was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver schedule VI (Marijuana) controlled substance, sell schedule VI controlled substance, deliver schedule VI controlled substance, manufacture schedule VI controlled substance, maintain a dwelling to sell controlled substance and possession of a stolen firearm. Streeter received a bond of $101,000.

McVicker said on Friday, Jan. 29, members of the Bladen/Columbus Task Force along with the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office arrested Terrence Clyburn, 42, of 1084 Mitchell Ford Road, Clarkton, as part of a four month investigation into heroin trafficking in the three counties.

Clyburn was charged with trafficking heroin by possession, trafficking heroin by sale, trafficking heroin by delivery, trafficking heroin by manufacture and maintaining a dwelling or vehicle to sell a controlled substance. Investigators seized approximately 1,000 dosage units of heroin, commonly referred to on the street as “bindles” Bond for Clyburn was set at $200,000.

Also arrested in a separate investigation was Chester Baldwin, 58, of  8336 Mercer Mill Road, Clarkton. Baldwin was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine and his bond was set at $50,000.

“We try to work with our adjoining counties to curb the sale of drugs,” said McVicker. “What we are finding is drug dealers from inland counties are traveling to Wilmington, Brunswick County beaches and South Carolina beaches like Myrtle Beach to sell Heroin. These dealers go where the demand is highest. By working together, we can pool our manpower and resources and get more of these dealers identified and off the streets. There is a national epidemic of heroin abuse in this country and southeastern North Carolina is not immune. We are seeing a big increase in heroin mainly because it costs less than prescription drugs like Percocet, oxycodone and others.”

 

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