A 60-year-old Roanoke Rapids man was arrested today for allegedly selling crack cocaine and possessing the painkiller Hydrocodone, according to the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.

Narcotics Agent J. Puhak said agents conducted a search warrant in the 100 block of East Littleton Road that was based on an investigation into crack cocaine sales.

Citizen complaints initially spurred the investigation, Puhak said, and the investigation was supplemented by law enforcement efforts.

The search warrant was a joint effort involving criminal detectives, narcotics agents and uniformed deputies with the sheriff’s office as well as narcotics agents with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department.

Kern Cozette “Chuck Martin” Martin was arrested for multiple narcotic offenses as a result of the search warrant investigation.

During the search, undisclosed evidence, which Puhak declined to quantify, was seized leading up to the following charges for Martin: Possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, felony maintain a dwelling for a controlled substance, felony possession of cocaine, misdemeanor possession of schedule II and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Puhak said both crack and hydrocodone were seized and the paraphernalia seized allegedly supported the fact Martin sold cocaine.

He was jailed on $2,000 bond and has a June 5 court date.