While specifics of his not guilty plea were not accessible via electronic court records, a minute entry in the federal system notes his counsel will confer with Senior Court Judge Malcolm Howard to set a trial date for the only holdout in the case. The remaining 14 have all entered guilty pleas and are expected to tentatively be sentenced in September.

The minute entry notes he will remain on pretrial release under the same conditions previously imposed by the court. A motion regarding his case filed last month indicated his trial would most likely be set this summer or fall.

The minute entry notes Tillmon entered the not guilty plea before Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank in Greenville.

Previous court records indicated Tillmon, a former police officer with the Windsor Police Department in Bertie County, would most likely be the only one of the so-called Rockfish 15 to stand trial in the case.

The minute entry filed this morning in the electronic court record notes Tillmon entered a not guilty plea to the counts lodge against him, which are as follows:

Count 1- Conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances

Count 2 - Conspiracy to use firearm in drug trafficking

Count 28 - Attempted possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

Count 32 – Accepting a bribe in the amount of $10,000

Count 33- Another count of attempted possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

Count 34- Use and carry a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

Count 36 – Another count of accepting a bribe in the amount of $10,000

Count 48 – Another count of attempted possession with intent to distribute a controlled substances

Count 49 – Another count of use and carry firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

Count 54- Another count of accepting a bribe