Tag: Death by Distribution

On 12/18/2023 Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office charged Nicholas Joyner, 42, of Atlantic, Melissa Mastropierro, 41, of Atlantic, and Joel Willis, 32, of Davis with Death by Distribution pursuant to an overdose death investigation. Joyner, Mastropierro, and Willis are currently being held at…

On 12/18/2023 Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office charged Heather Blaylock, 36, of Stella with one-count of Death by Distribution pursuant to an overdose death investigation. Blaylock is currently in-custody at the Carteret County Detention Center for additional drug offenses related to this investigation….

On 11/13/2023 Carteret County Sheriff’s deputies charged Toby Christian Cox, 40, of Old Pollocksville Road, New Bern, with one-count of Death by Distribution pursuant to an overdose death investigation. Cox is currently in custody at the Craven County Detention Center, for other charges, and has…

On 09/18/2023, Carteret County deputies arrested William Blake Perkins, 31, of Collins Rhue Rd, Peletier following the January 2023 overdose death of Joshua Adams of Cedar Point. Perkins was identified by detectives as having sold the methamphetamines laced with fentanyl that caused the death of…

On Friday, September 1, 2023, as part of an ongoing narcotics enforcement operation, The Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on the residence of Anthony Cordell Curtis of Vandemere, NC following a three-month investigation related to the sale and distribution of illegal narcotics…

On 08/11/2023, Carteret County deputies arrested William Eugene McMillion, 43, of Straits Rd, Gloucester following the 2020 overdose death of Heidi Guiendon of Otway. McMillion was identified by detectives as having sold the opiates laced with fentanyl that caused the death of 43-year-old Guiendon. McMillion…

On 07/28/2023, Carteret County deputies arrested Christopher Mejia, 26, of Scallop Ct, Beaufort and Alyssa Marie Nelson, 31, of Gillikin Rd, Otway following the 2022 overdose death of Chandler Stewart, of Country Living Lane in Morehead City. Mejia and Nelson were both identified by detectives…

  On 06/19/2023 Carteret County deputies and Morehead City police arrested Christopher Lee Mitchell, 34, of Seashore Dr, Swansboro and Jennifer Kay Caton Booher, 41, of Hickory Hills Rd, Cape Carteret following a narcotics investigation into the distribution of illicit street drugs in Carteret County….

On Saturday December 2, 2022, Pamlico County Sheriff’s deputies and Pamlico County EMS responded to a residence in Merritt, NC regarding an unresponsive male. Alex Luis Garcia, 25 of Merritt was pronounced deceased at the residence. The resulting investigation and autopsy determined that Garcia died…

 On February 20, 2023, Deputies arrested Hugh Crandall Willis Jr, 34, of Gloucester, NC. Willis was charged with distributing Fentanyl which resulted in the overdose death of Bethany JoAlison Styron, age 25, of Davis, NC. This arrest was result of a death investigation that started…

 On 04/18/2022 Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Kelli Wells Harper, 28, of Beaufort, NC. Harper was charged as the result of an undercover Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigation, conducted by Carteret County Sheriff’s Office ICAC…