ROCKINGHAM — Three Richmond County residents are each facing multiple drug charges in separate incidents, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies arrested 35-year-old Gerron Levare Foster, of Waymon Chapel Road, south of Hamlet, for allegedly selling oxycodone and crack cocaine during a controlled buy.
He was charged with two counts each of selling or delivering a Schedule II controlled substance and possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance.
Foster was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a$25,000 secured bond, where he remains awaiting a Jan. 28 court appearance.
On Jan. 6, deputies charged an East Rockingham woman, 28-year-old Amanda Ciji Williams, of Marigold Street, with one felony count each of selling or delivering a Schedule II controlled substance and possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance, for allegedly selling crack cocaine.
She was jailed under a $30,000 secured bond. However, jail records indicate that an additional $10,000 was added — bringing the total bond to $40,000 — for a probation violation. Williams’ court date is scheduled for Jan. 21.
The following day, the sheriff’s office arrested 35-year-old Andrew Terrell Goins, of Rummage Packhouse Road outside Ellerbe, on the same charges. Deputies accuse Goins of selling four oxycodone pills to a confidential informant in January 2015, according to an arrest warrant issued March 2, 2015.
He was jailed under a $5,000 secured bond, but jail records show his total bond at $15,500. His court date is set for Jan. 28
Online court records show Goins is scheduled to appear in Montgomery County Superior Court three days earlier on six felony drug charges — two counts each of: possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine; possession of a Schedule II controlled substance; and maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place for a controlled substance.
Neither Foster nor Williams has any other pending charges in the state.
Foster has spent much of the past three years behind bars on felony convictions of obtaining property by false pretenses and breaking and entering motor vehicles, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.
Between 2001 and 20010, he was convicted on several charges — ranging from felony counts of larceny of a motor vehicle, common-law robbery and breaking and entering to misdemeanor counts of assault on a female and driving while impaired — for which he served time.
Records show Foster has also been convicted of selling Schedule I, II and VI controlled substances and misdemeanor larceny and second-degree trespassing.
Goins’ conviction history includes nonviolent drug charges — two counts of marijuana possession — in addition to a misdemeanor count of child abuse and a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Williams has no past convictions in North Carolina.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
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