Traffic Stop Leads To Drug Arrest

Press Release
Published: January 18, 2008
Updated: January 18, 2008

A New Bern man faces drug charges after police stopped his car Thursday on Clark Avenue near Washington Street.

On January 17, 2008, at 11:15 p.m., officers spotted a white Mercury Grand Marquis with a revoked registration plate. During the traffic stop, officers and a police K-9 searched the vehicle and located cocaine underneath the driver’s seat.

The driver, Jurelle Leshawn HUNT, 01/30/1986, of 2305 Aycock Ave., was arrested and charged with Possession of Cocaine, Maintaining a Vehicle for Controlled Substance, Driving with No Insurance and Displaying a Revoked Registration Plate.

HUNT was placed in the Craven County Jail under a $10,000 bond, and is scheduled to appear in court January 18, 2008.

The New Bern Police Department is committed to Community Policing. Citizens are

encouraged to become a “Partner in Policing,” by reporting suspected illegal activity to the New Bern Police Department’s TIPS line at (252) 636-5034 or the Craven County Crime Stoppers line at 633-5141.