Citizens tips helped put a Salemburg man behind bars Monday night facing a host of serious drug charges.
According to reports, investigators with the Special Investigations Division of the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office arrested the man after a culmination of an undercover operation that was initiated due to tips from concerned citizens.
On Monday night, around 10 p.m., investigators arrested David Fitzgerald Williams, 28, of 80 Laurel Wood Lane, Salemburg, and charged him with three counts of selling cocaine, three counts of delivering cocaine, three counts of maintaining a vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance, three counts of manufacturing cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to sell/deliver cocaine.
Williams was placed in the Sampson County Detention Center under a $50,000 bond.
According to the N.C. Department of Corrections, Williams has previously been convicted of 16 misdemeanor counts of Employment Security Commission violations and one felony count of possession of stolen property.