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7 Arrested in Undercover Drug Operation Led by Southern Pines, NC Police
The arrests were made as part of an undercover probe codenamed “Operation Leader,” according to a news release issued Wednesday by the Southern Pines Police Department. Lee Marvin Harris Jr., 32, was among the suspects arrested. Harris, who has homes in Aberdeen and Charlotte, has a history of felony convictions in Moore County for drug-related offenses, the release said. According to the release, the Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division “developed information that (Harris) and the other accused individuals (…) were distributing cocaine and heroin” in the town. “This criminal activity was associated with a continuing gang-related criminal enterprise and conspiracy,” the release said. “Lee Marvin Harris Jr. has been identified as a prominent member of an organized street gang (that identifies itself) as the ‘Dope Boys Clique,’ or ‘DBC.’” Harris is charged with trafficking cocaine, felony maintaining a dwelling for the storage and sale of a controlled substance, possession of heroin, trafficking in opium or heroin, manufacture, sell, deliver or possess a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school and possession a firearm by a felon. He was placed in the Moore County Detention Center under a $9 million secured bond. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-16 |
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