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• A Roanoke Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on cocaine and other drug charges, the Halifax County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Lt. Chuck Hasty said narcotics agents executed a search warrant at a residence on Lincoln Street in Roanoke Rapids.

Agent Tim Harris conducted an investigation due to complaints of drug activity in that residence.

Agents arrested Robert Earl Alston at the residence and charged him with possession with intent to sell/deliver a controlled substance schedule II (crack cocaine), felony maintaining a dwelling, possession of a schedule IV substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Alston was placed in the Halifax County Jail under a $10,000 bond and his court date is Dec. 2.

• An Enfield man was charged Wednesday with cashing his deceased mother's check, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.

Detective Roy Rooks said in a news release he, with assistance from Deputy C.L. Hawkins, arrested Sterling Douglas, 33, and charged him with felony obtain by property by false pretense. Douglas was charged with allegedly cashing a U.S.Treasury check at a local convenience store where he received gas.

His mother had been dead since February and the check was cashed in May.

Douglas was placed in the Halifax County Jail under a $1,500 bond and has a court date of Dec. 9.

• The Halifax County Sheriff's Office said it will file robbery and assault charges against a kidnapping suspect once the man is caught.

Lt. Bobby Martin said this morning investigators still don't have the name of the man who abducted a woman in Wayne County and forced her to drive him in her car.

He said it is the most likely the man has fled the area.

The man knocked a 32-year-old woman unconscious after her car ran out of gas on Interstate 95 near the 158 mile marker. He also took the woman’s purse and necklace.

Trooper Tare Davis of the state Highway Patrol found the woman around 4:30 this Wednesday morning. Law enforcement and troopers were notified and the woman was taken to Halifax Regional Medical Center in Roanoke Rapids where she was treated. The woman is OK, Martin said.

The suspect is described as a white male standing between 5 feet, 5 inches and 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing around 200 pounds.

He was wearing a green shirt, tan cargo shorts and is between 35- to 40-years-old. His blondish, gray hair is thinning on top and he appears not to have shaved for a few days.

The man’s name is not known at this time.

Anyone with information is encouraged to Halifax County Crimestoppers at 252-583-4444.