Deputies and Officers from the Carteret County Sheriff's Office and Beaufort and Morehead City Police Departments arrested 9 suspects in the Beaufort area and charged them with numerous drug charges.
Detectives conducted an undercover drug investigation for several months into a ring of drug dealers operating in the Beaufort area.
Sheriff Buck and Chief Lewis say these
investigations will continue and more arrests are expected.
Here are the names of the people arrested Thursday and the charges filled for each one.
Valerie Hernandez, 46, of Beaufort
-Conspiracy to Sell and Deliver Schedule IV
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule IV
Sell and Deliver Schedule IV
Robert Reels, 25, of Beaufort
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine (3 counts)
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine (3 counts)
Marvin Davis, 49, of Beaufort
-Conspiracy to Sell and Deliver Schedule II Cocaine (4 counts)
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine
Jerrell Stewart, 20, of Morehead City
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine (2 counts)
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine (2 counts)
-Trafficking in Cocaine (2 counts)
-Conspiracy to Sell and Deliver Schedule II Cocaine
-Felony Maintaining a Vehicle
-Resisting Public Officer
Tracy Bunn, 42, of Beaufort
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine
Robert Lee Wallace, 42, of Beaufort
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine
Roy Thomas Foskey, 23, of Beaufort
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Marijuana
-Sell and Deliver Marijuana
Matthew Ernest McClain, 27, of Beaufort
-Trafficking in Cocaine (4 counts)
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine
-Sell and Deliver Cocaine
David Allen Patterson, 30, of Beaufort
-Sell Cocaine
-Possession with Intent to Manufacture Sell and Deliver Schedule II
Cocaine
-Trafficking in Opium or Heroin (3 counts)