HENDERSON â Prosecutors have secured new indictments in a case involving the Vance County Sheriffâs Office that accuses its second in command and two deputies of conspiring to dodge North Carolina laws on civil asset forfeiture. A grand jury handed up the indictments of Maj. Stephen OâNeal Staton, Deputy Purav J. Patel and Deputy Mitch Taybronn Pittman on April 14, but they remained sealed under a judgeâs order until Monday. On Tuesday, all three were booked at the Wake County Jail, according to a Twitter post by managers of that facility. Court documents indicate that all three received unsecured bonds, of $50,000 in Pittmanâs case and $35,00 in Patelâs and Statonâs, that allowed them to go free.