FOUR OAKS – A 27 year-old Four Oaks man was arrested on felony drug trafficking charges.
Around 5:00pm Wednesday, Aug. 21 a Johnston County deputy conducted a traffic stop near Four Oaks. During the stop, the officer reportedly found approximately 30 pounds of marijuana concealed inside a crate.
Officers searched the suspects home in the 2700 block of Old School Road. During a search of the property, an additional one pound of marijuana and approximately $25,000 in cash was reportedly located.
Melvin Garrett Benton was charged with four counts of trafficking marijuana, one count of conspiracy to sell or deliver marijuana, and maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled substance.
Benton was held under a $150,000 secured bond at the Johnston County Detention Center in Smithfield.
Y’all are out here worried about this man selling marijuana, a substance that is legal is multiple other states on a federal level. Meanwhile, we still have people dying from fentanyl poisoning and overdose related deaths.
The problem is, this MJ is not from ethical farms. They lace MJ products too believe it or not! Plus it’s not legal in our state.
FACTS
T Money, it starts with marijuana as a gateway to stronger stuff when it no longer hits hard enough. Nobody just starts out shooting heroine or taking fentanyl… they just smoking weed not hurtin nobody then boom a crippling addiction
A lot of people take fentanyl or heroin without touching marijuana. To use your conversation style… they just taking doctor prescribed pills not hurtin nobody then boom a crippling addiction.
31 Pounds Of Marijuana + $25,000 ?
If he can give information that leads to the arrest and deportation of a cartel supplier then drop the charges.
It’s sad that people have to go to these levels. Housing is1500 a month and we still making 13 or 14 a hour..Give us jobs where people don’t have to resort to that.. They so livid about Marijuana but grow tobacco and it’s causing lung cancer..It’s a praying time..
Yes! Exactly! I am a recovering addict with almost 2 years of sobriety and I’ve done it all but I see nothing wrong with marijuana, my addiction didn’t start with weed being a “gateway drug” (that theory is bs) most addictions start with a doctor, somebody abusing prescription meds, or being around a family member or friend using and deciding to try it. The government has no problem selling tobacco and killing people with it because they can tax the h*ll out of it and make ridiculous amounts of money.
thank u
Sorry not sorry , True, you have a point, there is a percentage of folks who get addicted to pain pills then transition to street drugs….
Good job to the JCSO. Thats allot of drugs off the street. And by the way Delma, it is a proven fact that Marijuana causes more damage to the body then tobacco and for the record I don’t approve of tobacco either.
Steve show me the statistics because I’ve never heard anything like that..Show me where Marijuana is more dangerous than tobacco products. You wanna thank them for getting that off the streets what about the corn liquor that millions was made off of? Please don’t get me started.. You have a blind eye to that though..