On 09/22/2022 Carteret County Sheriff’s Deputies charged Jason Allen Porter, 42, of Newport with one open count of murder. Porter is currently serving an active prison sentence for probation violations in the New Hanover Department of Corrections and was transported to Carteret County for his first appearance where he was placed on no bond.
On 09/23/2022, Deputies charged Amanda Alice Blanton, 33, of Newport with one open count of murder. Blanton is currently in the Craven County jail pending numerous drug charges and was transported to Carteret County for her first appearance where she was also placed on no bond.
On 03/21/2022 Carteret County Deputies first arrested Joshua Kenneth Clauson, 20, of Newport who was also charged with one open count of murder and remains in the Carteret County Jail under no bond.
These new charges follow a six-month investigation following the death of 46-year-old Daniel Andrew Brisson whose body was discovered in the roadway on 03/20/2022 in the 100 block of Harris Street in Morehead City. All three are accused of acting in concert by intentionally injecting methamphetamine and fentanyl into the body of Brisson before dumping his body out of a vehicle on Harris Street.