A 24-year-old man faces drugs and weapons charges after a team of law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant at a home on Raleigh Road.
Members of the Henderson Police Department, the Vance County Sheriff’s Office, State Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) served a search warrant at 3701 Raleigh Road in response to a drug complaint.
Officers recovered 7,500 dosage units of heroin, drug manufacturing equipment, marijuana, one handgun, and $12,736.00 in currency. Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow told WIZS News that each dosage unit was valued at between $8 and $10, which adds up to about $60,000 street value if sold individually.
Police arrested Kortez Williams, and he was charged with three counts of trafficking heroin, one count of possession with intent to manufacture, sell, deliver heroin, trafficking heroin by manufacturing, one count of possession with intent to manufacture, sell, deliver marijuana, one count of possess firearm by felon, two counts of maintaining a dwelling place for a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Williams, who had been out on bond for possession of a firearm by a felon, was placed in the Vance County Jail without privilege of bond.