Drug Bust In Pitt County Takes $10,000 Worth Of Crack Off The Streets
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Updated: 8:18 PM Nov 7, 2009
Drug Bust In Pitt County Takes $10,000 Worth Of Crack Off The Streets
Pitt County Sheriff's Office says they took $10,000 dollars worth of crack cocaine off the streets after they get a search warrant for the home of James Earl Jenkins.
Posted: 8:11 PM Nov 7, 2009
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Numerous complaints by residents prompted the Pitt Sheriff's Department to seek and get a warrant for the home of James Earl Jenkins.

Deputies say when they arrived they found 100 grams of crack cocaine which included 240 individually packaged dosage units ready for sale.

It happened on Friday evening at 102 Glenda Street in Greenville at the 63 year-old's home.

The estimated street value of the drugs taken off the streets is $10,000 dollars. Deputies say they also recovered $698 dollars in cash.

Charges: Trafficking in Cocaine (1) count, and Maintaining a Dwelling Place for Controlled Substances (1) count.

Bond: $100,000.00 secured and he currently remains in the Pitt County Detention.


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Posted by: NGE Location: enc on Nov 9, 2009 at 06:28 PM

The bail should have been a million.How many times before the police arrested this man has he been responsible for drugs on the street? The hell and torment that families go through because of drug use is horrific.I don't live in South America and could care less about a backward culture of "crack growers"Load up the old man in a plane and dump his rump right in the middle of the "indigenous coca" people of South America and he can chew or eat it,or suck it up his nose.If those people in South America are so concerned about making American dollars off crack addicts,let them keep them up on thier own continent.Crap with crack!It destroys people lives that aren't even addicted to it!
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Posted by: Aunt B Location: Greenville on Nov 9, 2009 at 07:53 AM

Well there's a nice role model for the youth of west G'ville!
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Posted by: Anonymous on Nov 9, 2009 at 01:37 AM

There is a huge difference between chewing coca leaves or drinking coca tea to alleviate respiratory distress, nosebleeds, pain, and give energy in super high altitude regions, and CRACK - which is not a paste... it's in rock form. The way substances are processed makes a tremendous difference in their chemical structure. You're right that the originating plant is part of a traditional culture, but the reason it's hard to stop the craze for it's demented offspring product in the U.S. is because people don't take responsibility for their own actions.
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