Deandre “DD” Miles and Terry Kearney are expected to be tried in their respective fentanyl and heroin distribution cases, federal court records show.

On Thursday, Kearney, of Roanoke Rapids, waived his right to a detention hearing before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank in Greenville.

Swank ordered him into federal custody pending trial, saying, “The court finds there is no condition or combination of conditions to reasonably assure the defendant’s appearance or that the defendant would not be a danger to any person or the community.”

Miles, 35, formerly of Roanoke Rapids, waived his right to a detention hearing last month and Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers III remanded him to the custody of the attorney general or a designee of the attorney general.

Numbers ordered Miles be confined “in a corrections facility separate, to the extent practicable, from persons awaiting or serving sentences or being held in custody pending appeal.”

Both men are scheduled for arraignment during the March 12 term of criminal court in New Bern, documents show.

The orders for both men say trial is anticipated and the parties do not contemplate need for delay between arraignment and trial as permitted by the Speedy Trial Act.

A federal indictment tied the two men to each other, with the first count saying, “With respect to the defendant Deandre Lamont Miles, also known as ‘DD,’ the amount involved in the conspiracy attributable to him as a result of his own conduct, and the conduct of other conspirators reasonably foreseeable to him, is one-hundred grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin and four-hundred grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl …”

Referencing Kearney, 23, the indictment says “the amount involved in the conspiracy attributable to him as a resμlt of his own conduct, and the conduct of other conspirators reasonably foreseeable to him, is one-hundred grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin.”

Count two of the federal indictment says Kearney did knowingly and intentionally possess with the intent to distribute one-hundred grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin.

Count three says on or about October 26, Kearney did knowingly possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States.

Count four says Kearney has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year while knowingly possessing a firearm.

Count five references Miles and charges on or about December 18 he knowingly and intentionally possessed with the intent to distribute four-hundred grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.

A criminal complaint filed in the case of Miles alleged he “is a major supplier of heroin and fentanyl in Halifax and Northampton counties.”