A man who is currently on probation in Duplin County for felony possession of a gun, and was arrested in March by Onslow County deputies for drugs, was arrested again this week accused of trafficking methamphetamine.
Justin Tyshaun Pickett, 29, was arrested on Thursday by Onslow County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit at the conclusion of an investigation in which he was found to be selling trafficking amounts of methamphetamine.
He was taken before a magistrate and charged with five counts of felony trafficking in methamphetamine, felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/distribute methamphetamine, felony sell methamphetamine, felony deliver methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
The Onslow County Sheriff s Office have arrested a Midway Park man on several felony drug charges with the help of the SBI and NCIS.
On Friday members of Onslow County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU), with the assistance of the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation (Jacksonville Field Office) and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (Camp Lejeune Field Office) conducted a search warrant on Barbara Avenue in Midway Park, the residence of Joseph Bernard White and his brother Jason Christopher White.
During the search warrant, investigators found approximately one-half gram of crystal methamphetamine in (Jason) White’s bedroom.
Upon further search of the residence, numerous items of contraband were located: (7) firearms; (2) live smoke grenades (66) grams of crystal meth; (16) grams of heroin; (3) dosage units of heroin;(7) grams of Fentanyl; (1) gram of powder cocaine; (3) grams of Psilocin mushrooms; (4) dosage units of LSD; (28) dosage units of MDMA; (117) dosage