As the United States Probation Office prepared to submit a written order, Damien Edward Mitchell was remanded to federal custody today for processing.

Mitchell, who was charged in April on drug counts by the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office, appeared before District Judge Terrence Boyle in Raleigh for a hearing regarding the revocation of his federal supervised release.

An entry filed this afternoon in the federal court record does not go into detail, but does note that the government and the United States Probation Office withdrew its revocation motion for reasons stated in a document which can’t be publicly viewed.

Instead the entry says that probation will submit a written order to the court and that Mitchell was remanded to custody.

In Northampton County he faces charges of three counts of possession with intent to sell and deliver schedule II, a count of felony maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance and a count of possession of drug paraphernalia. 

He has a June 8 Northampton County District Court date for a charge of driving while license revoked and a July 20 district court date for the drug charges.

Last year Boyle rejected Mitchell’s motion for early termination of his supervised federal release.

Boyle noted that In April 2012 Mitchell was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to distributing over 28 grams of cocaine base. He was released from prison on August 28, 2018 and began his term of supervised release.

The federal judge’s decision to reject Mitchell’s motion was based on the defendant not being compliant with all the terms of his supervision.