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Drug Defendant Receives Active Sentence
An (Xean Isle Bcach man was given a seven-year
active prison sentence Monday after pleading guilty to
cocaine trafficking charges in Brunswick County
Superior Court.
Perry Wallace Neville pleaded guilty to one count
of selling cocaine to undercover officers and one count
of trafficking in more than 2X grams but less than 2(X)
grams of cocaine from a relative's home in Robeson
County.
Lt. David Crocker, head of the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department narcotics division, said the case
stemmed from an undercover officer's purchase of a
half ounce of cocaine from Neville on April 26 and an
other purchase of one and a half ounces of cocaine on
June 1 of this year.
Detectives llien followed Neville to a home in
Robeson County owned by Stacey Oxcndinc, Crockcr
said. Half a kilogram of cocaine was sci/ed at the
home. Oxcndinc faces chargcs in Robeson County
Superior Court, Crockcr said.
In court Monday, Judge Giles R Clark sentenced
Neville to a seven-year aclivc sentence on the traffick
ing charge. Judge Clark also handed down a five-year
suspended sentence for the sale of cocaine charge and
placed Neville on five years' supervised probation to
begin at the expiration of his active prison sentence.
Neville was ordered to pay SI,250 in restitutions,
S750 to the State Bureau of Investigation and S5(X) to
the Brunswick County Undercover Fund.
In other cases heard Monday in Superior Court:
?William Leroy Faircloth Jr. of Grisscttown rc
ccivcd a live-year suspended sentence alter pleading
guilty to possession of marijuana, felonious possession
of stolen goods and possessing a weapon of mass de
struction. Judge Clark placed Faircloth on three years'
supervised probation and fined him SI ,(XX) He received
a five-year suspended sentence. Faircloth must also per
form 100 hours of community service within 120 days.
?Jerry Lee McNc.l of Airport Road, Shallotte, re
ceived a prayer for judgment, continued until his sen
tencing can be scheduled by the district attorney's of
fice. after he pleaded guilty Monday to possession with
intent to deliver cocainc. McNeil was arrested by
Shallotte Police Officer G.J. Samck for possessing
crack cocainc.
?Roscoc Roberts of Lcland was given a 12-year ac
tive prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of
second degree rape Roberts was originally charged on
nine different sex offenses involving minors, said Del.
Nancy Simpson with the Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department.
?Jerry L. High of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., will
await sentencing on two counts he pleaded guilty to in
court Tuesday. High pleaded guilty to one count of con
spiracy to traffic in more than 400 grams of cocainc and
one count of possession of more than 400 grams of co
cainc. Crocker said the ease stems from two incidents in
December 1987 and January 1988. High was indicted in
June 1989 on two counts of conspiracy to traffic in
more than 400 grams of cocainc and three counts of
trafficking in more than 400 grams of cocaine. He had
previously been given a 13-year prison sentence in
19K4 in connection widi the "U-Haul" smuggling case
in the county dating to the early 1980s.
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THE BRUNSWICK
Source NC Press Services. Inc State Survey of 1017 people. November 1989