An undercover drug operation over the last several months has been conducted between the Roanoke Rapids Police Department and its narcotics and patrol divisions along with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
Mark Reber, the man taken into custody following a Tuesday evening standoff in which his mother was a hostage, will be charged with second-degree kidnapping, according to the Roanoke Rapids Police Department.
Charges are pending against a 54-year-old man who held his mother hostage at their house on Old Farm Road this evening.
A man who held his mother hostage in a bedroom and live-streamed the ordeal on Facebook was taken to a hospital for mental evaluation and his mother was not harmed.
A joint investigation between the sheriff’s offices of Halifax and Nash counties led to a traffic stop Sunday in which three arrests were made and 6,500 bindles of heroin were seized.
