The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following, according to Chief Shane Guyant:

On Monday shortly after noon, Officer M. Morris observed a vehicle parked in the fire lane at a local business.  

Morris smelled the strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.  

Lieutenant D.A. Newsome assisted.  

Morris approached the passenger, Terrill Maurice Harrison, 45, of Roanoke Rapids, and asked him to step out of the vehicle. 

A search of Harrison yielded 6 grams of cocaine.  

Newsome asked the driver, Tanequa Teosha Austin, 29, of Roanoke Rapids, to step out of the vehicle.  

Guyant said Austin admitted that she had marijuana and handed Newsome a large bag.  

A subsequent probable cause search of the vehicle yielded even more marijuana and related paraphernalia. 

Austin and Harrison were arrested and transported to the police department for processing.  Master Officer K. Williams conducted a more thorough search of Austin and located 156 grams which she had concealed.

Austin was charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell and distribute marijuana, felony possession of cocaine, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, trafficking in cocaine, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, two counts possession of drug paraphernalia and parking in a fire lane.  

She received a $40,000 bond and October 24 district court date.

Harrison was charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell and distribute, felony possession of cocaine, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, and two counts possession of drug paraphernalia.

He received a $55,000 secured bond and the same court date as Austin.

Fraud arrest

A 28-year-old Roanoke Rapids man was arrested Monday for obtaining property by false pretense in September.

Marvin Hobbs was jailed without the opportunity for bond due to a similar charge in Wake County.

On September 17 an investigation by Investigator S. Bryant showed that Hobbs paid $3,200 in services from a business with a personal check and then stopped payment on the instrument.

Hobbs surrendered to the sheriff’s office.

He has an October 24 district court date in Halifax County.