ROCKINGHAM — Police were busy Friday morning, making arrests on drug and assault charges.

According to a release from the Rockingham Police Department, narcotics and SWAT officers served a search warrant on a residence (no street address given) following an investigation with “mulitple controlled buys and surveillance.”

While executing the warrant, detectives located and seized “substances that were believed to be and consistent with crystal meth, cocaine and marijuana,” the release stated.

Police arrested 29-year-old James Antwan Nicholson and James Henry Nicholson.

According to Richmond County Jail records, both men are charged with: conspiracy to sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance; maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place for a controlled substance; possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance; possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine; and possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana.

The younger Nicholson is also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and one misdemeanor count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public officer.

The older Nicholson also has a charge of selling or delivering a Schedule II controlled substance.

James Antwon Nicholson was booked under a $40,000 secured bond, James Henry Nicholson under a $70,000 secured bond.

No court date was given in the statement and their charges were not listed online Friday evening.

A Rockingham woman is facing an assault charge for allegedly stabbing a man during a domestic dispute.

Detectives responded to “the South Long Drive area” on Friday to fond Rickey Davis had been stabbed “in the chest area,” according to the release.

He is reported to be in stable condition and was transported to a trauma center in Raleigh for treatment of his injury.

Police charged Chastity Evans with assault with a deadly weapon and she was booked into jail under a domestic violence hold with no bond.

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

James Antwan Nicholson spent the first half of 2006 behind bars when his probation was revoked on felony charges of larceny and possession with intent to sell a Schedule VI controlled substance, according to records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.

His record also includes felony convictions of assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer, attempted larceny of a motor vehicle and attempted possession of a firearm by a felon, as well as for selling and possessing a Schedule II controlled substance.

James Henry Nicholson was convicted of assault on a female (1998), communticating threats (1999), intimaditng a witness and crime against nature (2005), state records show.

J.A. Nicholson
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J.H. Nicholson
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Evans
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Woman charged in domestic stabbing

Staff report