DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. – A routine traffic stop on Interstate-40 turned into a major drug bust Tuesday afternoon after Duplin County deputies say they pulled a High Point woman off the highway with over a pound of meth and nearly 50 grams of fentanyl.
According to the Duplin County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division, the sheriff’s DICE (Duplin Interstate Criminal Enforcement) Unit stopped a vehicle near the 361-mile marker on Tuesday.
The driver was identified as 25-year-old Lourdes Kelis Diamond Nicole Canty of High Point, North Carolina.
Deputies say during the stop, trained interdiction officers searched the vehicle and uncovered 422 grams of Methamphetamine (about one full pound) and 47 grams of Fentanyl, one of the deadliest street drugs circulating in NC.
All illegal narcotics were seized on scene, and Canty was taken into custody.
Canty is now facing a laundry list of charges—most of them felonies:
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Trafficking Methamphetamine (3 Felony Counts)
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PWIMSD Schedule II – Meth / Fentanyl (2 Felony Counts)
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Trafficking Opium or Heroin (3 Felony Counts)
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Maintaining a Vehicle for Controlled Substances (1 Felony Count)
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Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (1 Misdemeanor Count)
She was booked into the Duplin County Jail under a $1,000,000 secured bond.
