Crime & Safety
3 Nabbed In Drug Bust After Community Tip: Sheriff
Iredell deputies found methamphetamine, marijuana, and a gun during a midnight search of a Troutman home, according to the county sheriff.
TROUTMAN, NC — Three suspects were arrested and face drug trafficking charges after a weekend bust launched by a community tip turned up methamphetamine, marijuana, and a gun, according to the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office received a complaint about suspected drug sales occurring at a home on East Panther Creek Road in Troutman. According to a report from the sheriff’s office, the home was in the process of foreclosure and there were no utilities connected to the home.
Narcotics detectives and deputies conducted a “knock and talk” investigation at the home around 12:30 a.m. on Friday, July 27. Inside the home, deputies located Amy Rebecca Sloop, Joshua Joseph Dover and Karmin Scott Taylor, along with “amounts of methamphetamine, marijuana and a firearm,” a ICSO report said.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Sloop also had an outstanding probation warrant from Mecklenburg County.
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“We are responsive to complaints from our citizens and will not tolerate individuals who are from other counties coming here to Iredell to conceal or sell their drugs,” Sheriff Darren Campbell said in a statement. “We will not stand for it.”
Sloop, 32 and of Cornelius, was charged with one count of maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for the sale or use of a controlled substance, which is a misdemeanor, and one count of probation violation. Her secured bond was set at $10,000.
Dover, 30 and of Huntersville, was charged with felony possession with intent to sell or deliver methamphetamine, felony possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana, felony maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for the sale or use of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia, which is a misdemeanor. His secured bond was set at $10,000.
Taylor, 22 and of Troutman, was charged with one count of maintaining a dwelling for the sale or use of a controlled substance — a misdemeanor — and his bond was set at $2,000.
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