LUMBERTON — A Pembroke man who visited the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office to pick up some property ended up checking in.
According to sheriff’s Maj. Damien McLean, when Johnathan Leroy Locklear, 36, of Townsend Chapel Road, came to the Sheriff’s Office, a deputy approached him because of an outstanding warrant. The deputy smelled marijuana, which sparked an investigation during which cocaine and marijuana were found and seized from Locklear’s 2016 Chevrolet Express van, which was in the Sheriff’s Office’s parking lot.
Locklear was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession of cocaine, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintain a vehicle for a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana paraphernalia, and resist, delay and obstruct. He was placed in the Robeson County Detention Center under a $21,500 secured bond.
Anyone with additional information or any information regarding drug activity in Robeson County is asked to call the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Division at 910-671-3191.
