The motion asking the court to hold all defendants in Operation Rockfish until their trial gives a more detailed glimpse into how the operation came about and what the 15 charged allegedly did.
The 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish will be held in federal custody until their formal detention hearings, according to Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp.
The Operation Rockfish police corruption sting contains a 54-count federal indictment that alleges 13 current and former law enforcement officers and two other individuals protected narcotics shipments and cash proceeds during transit along the East Coast for what they believed was a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was actually an undercover operation by the FBI.
Two Halifax County residents were among the 13 people sentenced in a widespread narcotics ring that involved violent home invasions, the United States Justice Department said in a press release.
William Otis "Bill" Wheeler, a former high-ranking officer within the Northampton County Sheriff's Office, as well as a former officer in Halifax County, died today.
