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September 19, 2012

Task Force seizes $110K worth of marijuana plants

Correspondent Van Holland

TARBORO — The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force took to the air Thursday with the National Guard Counter Drug Task Force and the North Carolina Highway Patrol Air Wing in efforts of finding marijuana plants growing within the county that they had received information about.

It didn't take long during the operation to find what they were looking for. During the search they conducted a marijuana eradication operation on Temperance Hall Road and found 47 plants growing.

The plants that were found were anywhere from six to eight feet tall and had a street value of $110,000. The plants were seized and destroyed.

The sheriff's office arrested two suspected growers, Daniel Rodwell Marks, 47, of 2898 Temperance Hall Road, and William Earl Holland, 61, of 5270 Temperance Hall Road, both of Elm City. Both suspects were charged with manufacturing marijuana and possession with the intent to sell and deliver marijuana.

Marks was given a $35,000 secured bond and Holland was jailed under a $10,000 secured bond in the Edgecombe County Detention Center.

Both suspects are due in court today for the charges.

After the seizure of the plants, the sheriff's office has seized a total of 95 marijuana plants this year.

Holland already had nine drug charges pending against him in Edgecombe County. He was recently arrested during a drug roundup called "Operation Back Pack" in August and was one of 22 suspected drug dealers taken into custody.

The charges pending are for selling opiates and marijuana to undercover officers. When officers went to arrest him for the most recent charges, they searched his residence and seized over an ounce and a half of marijuana, nine opiate pills, two marijuana smoking devices, two rifles, over $1,000 in U.S. currency, cell phones and other drug paraphernalia.

Holland is also a registered sex offender and has two charges pending against him for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Holland has been convicted on 21 different charges since 1971 and is currently on probation.

Marks has a prior conviction which is listed as "other felon" that he was charged with in 1994 in Durham County.

"I would like to thank the National Guard and the Highway Patrol Air Wing for their continued support of local law enforcement in the war on drugs," Sheriff James Knight said. "I would also like to thank the concerned citizens that passed along the information and led to the discovery of these plants and ultimately the arrests of the suspects."

 

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