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Cocaine Charges Net 25-Year BY TERRY POPE Three counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine into Brunswick County netted a Greenville man 25 years in prison last week. Fotios Kamtsiklis, of Grcenmill Run Apartments, pleaded guilty in Brunswick County Superior Court in 1988 to three counts of conspira cy to traffic more than 400 grams of cocaine into the county. Judge Giles R. Clark sentenced Kamtsiklis to 25 years in prison. He was indicted by a special drug in vestigative Brunswick County grand jury in 1987 on tour counts of trafficking cocaine and four counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. In a plea agreement with Special State Prosecutor William Wolak, Kamtsiklis pleaded guilty to three of those charges on June 30, 1988, and agreed to offer testimony against his accomplices. His sen tence will run concurrent with an 80-year sentence he received earlier in Pitt County. In court last week. Judge Clark ruled the defendant had given assis tance in the case and consolidated the charges for sentencing. Each count of conspiracy to traffic co caine carries a maximum of 35 years in jail. Kamtsiklis was arrested in Pitt County on May 18, 1987, on drug related charges there and placed un der SI million bond. He was indict ed by a Brunswick County grand ju ry on June 11, 1987. While awaiting trial in Bruns wick County, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison on drug-related charges in Pitt County, according to documents filed at the Brunswick County Clerk of Court's office. In Brunswick County, he was linked to four drug operations dat ing back to Dec. 16, 1985. Kamtsik lis was indicted for conspiring with Petros Tholiotis and William An derson Noble, of Greenville, and others to traffic in more than a pound of cocaine into Brunswick County. Another indictment claimed he conspired in an alleged deal on the same day with Petros Tholiotis, Jack Truesdale and Francisco Navarro, both of Ft. Myers, Fla., and Dale Varnum, of Supply, to possess more than a pound of cocaine. The grand jury also indicted him for conspiring on May 15, 1986, with Alvin Bryan Willis 111, of Shal lotte, Varnum and Tholiotis to traf fic another volume of cocaine into the county. A fourth indictmcnt charges that Kamtsiklis conspired with Willis and Tholiotis on March 1, 1986, to traffic another large vol ume of cocaine into the county. Other Cases Heard Judge Clark also heard the fol lowing cases in Superior Court last week: * ?Rodney Edward Hudson, 28, of Lcland, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay SI, 000 in attorney fees after pleading guilty to second-degree rape. He had been charged with first-degree rape, first degree kidnapping, crime against nature and first-degree sexual of fense from an incident that occurred Oct. 31, 1989. ?Earl Douglas Purnell, 35, of Ra leigh, was found guilty of driving while impaired. Level 4. He was sentenced to 120 days, suspended for two years, placed on two years' supervised probation and fined $200. He must surrender his license, serve 48 hours of community ser vice within 90 days in Wake County and undergo assessment there. ?Milton Gore, 24, of Longwood, pleaded guilty to embezzlement, was sentenced to three years in jail and recommended for immediate work release. He must pay $350 in attorney fees. ?Demetrius Raye, 17, of Southport, charges against him of common law robbery were dismissed. ?Victor Finley Winebarger II, 23, of Long Beach, was found guilty of driving while impaired. Level 4. He was sentenced to 90 days, suspend ed for two years, placed on two years' supervised probation, fined SI 00, ordered to pay $400 attorney fees, undergo assessment, surrender his license, serve 48 hours commu nity service and submit to tests. ?Camel 1 Robbins, 35, of Leland, was found guilty of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and sentenced to three years in jail. ?Andeane Doolin Hatch, 51, of Long Beach, pleaded guilty to as sault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to 18 months in jail, suspended for two years, and was placed on two years' supervised probation. Hatch must pay a $500 fine and restitution of S425 and was ordered not to possess any firearm. ?Thomas McArthur Sullivan, 26, of Leland, pleaded guilty to misde meanor hit and run, was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for one year, and placed on one year su pervised probation. He was fined S100 and ordered not to drive for 90 days. ?Tim Ballard, 30, of Leland, plead ed guilty to sale and delivery of co caine, was sentenced to three years in jail and recommended for imme diate work release. He must pay Nevada Man Says He Was Robbed After Accepting Ride BY TERRY POPE A Las Vegas, Ncv., man whose boat had dockcd al Southport claims he was beaten and robbed of S80 by two men he accepted a ride from while at a Long Beach night club Saturday. The men said they were going to Wilmington "to continue partying," Brunswick County Sheriff's Deputy Becky McDonald's report stated, but drove the victim to an area near Old Brunswick Town off of N.C. 133 around 3:30 a.m. The victim, who was intoxicated, was beat about the head and face and had cuts on the mouth and cars, Detective Larry Joyner reported. The victim walked to N.C. 133 where an unidentified motorist stop ped and gave him a ride to the Boil ing Spring Lakes Policc Depart ment An officer there drove him to Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport for treatment. Joyner reported he questioned the victim at the hospital. No arrests have been made. The victim was able to give de scriptions of his assailants and the vehicle they were driving. In other reports on file at the sheriff's department: CRIME REPORT ?A Route 2, Leland, man was shot in the arm with a .357-caliber re volver Friday evening, according to Deputy Georgia Phelps. The man's wife is accused of firing the shot that sent the man to the hospital around 5:42 p.m. He was transport ed to New Hanover Regional Medi cal Center by the Town Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad. ?Someone drove away with 18 bi cycles and 168 shrubs worth S2.693 from the Roses store in Southport over the weekend, reported Deputy McDonald. A chain holding the bi cycles together had been cut, it was reported Sunday. ?A stereo system was reported taken from a Four Winds II home between Feb. 17 and March 23, reported Deputy Phelps. Damage was $25. ?A golf cart taken during a recent break-in at Bricklanding Plantation was found, reported Deputy Don Stovall. The 53,000 cart had been abandoned at a maintenance shed there. ?Someone broke into The Kid's Connection day care center on Old Shallotte Road and took $11, report ed Deputy Robert Hoagland. ?A torn window screcn helped a burglar gain entry to a Seaside home between Dec. 10 and Nov. 18. A $250 television set was missing. ?Someone took a $150 television set from a Long Beach Road home within the past two weeks, reported Deputy Phelps. ?A couch, chair, tables, television game and television valued at $1,300 were taken from a Chappcl Loop Road home in the Leland area, reported Deputy W.F. Moore. Entry was gained through a window. ?Someone took a television and mi crowave worth $358 from a Route 3, Shallotte, home, reported Deputy Charles Wilson. ?A satellite control box, radio and microwave valued at over $2,100 were taken from a Winnabow home, reported Deputy Moore. ?Four tires and rims valued at over $2,400 were taken from a car on Woodland Drive in the Leland area, reported Deputy James Warren Jr. ?An estimated $600 in jewelry and $1,560 in cash and other items were taken from 3 U.S. 17 south home Sunday, reported Deputy Darryl Marlow. STREET DEALERS DIDN'T PAY TAX Law Enforcement Agencies Awarded Drug Money The Brunswick County Sheriff's Department and Shallotte Police Department arc getting nearly $2,900 for their role in recent drug investigations and arrests. Shallotte Police will rcceive $2,474 and the sheriff's department will get $405 under a program !hat penalizes people who don't pay tax es on illegal drugs, according to a news release from the N.C. Depart ment of Revenue. Shallotte Police Chief Rodney Gause said the town's share of the money comes from the arrest of two men last May and July. Both men were arrested for possessing and at tempting to sell crack, which is a form of cocaine. Lt. David Crocker of the sheriff's department said the $405 represents quarterly payments from three peo ple officers arrested for dealing drugs. Crocker said two of the men were arrested in January 1990 for selling illegal amphetamines. The other ar rest occurred last June and involved the sale of cocaine. Gause said the purpose of the program is to provide money to law enforcement agencies that battle drug dealers so those agencies can continue to pay for anti-drug efforts. "It's really great because it puts the money back in the department," Gause ?said. "We can go get equip ment and use the money to get the drug suppliers and drug dealers off the streets." The police chief said he expects to receive approximately $2,000 more within the next two months as a result of another recent arrest in volving cocaine. A state law that took effect in January 1990 requires drug dealers to buy tax stamps and affix the stamps to the drugs they sell. Fail ure to buy the stamps within 48 hours of obtaining the drugs results in a penalty equal to 100 percent of the tax. The N.C. Department of Reven ue's controlled substance tax sec tion eventually returns 75 percent of controlled substance tax collections to the investigating and arresting agencies. 'This program taxes controlled substances and holds drug dealers responsible for payment of the tax," Revenue Secretary Betsy Justus said in the news release. 'The presence of illegal drugs in our communities imposes great costs on our society," she said. "This tax represents a reasonable and appropriate means by which some of those costs can be paid from the enormous profits made by those, who deal in illicit drugs." The state collected 5295,769 in 1990 and has paid more than $117,000 to law enforcement agen cies involved in drug investigations and arrests. Collections have increased so far this year, according to the news re lease. The state collected 5114,201 in the first two months of 1991, which represents 38.6 percent of all 1990 collections. "We expect that collections will continue to increase in the foresee able future," Ms. Justus said. "Sev en controlled substance tax enforce ment officers will begin working these collection actions in April. Their mission will be to employ the full range of means under the law for collecting the taxes due on illicit drugs." 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