Tip leads to arrests in Fayetteville Drug discovery: police

FAYETTEVILLE, NC (WNCN) – The Fayetteville Police Department says a tip from one of their initiatives led to two arrests in a drug bust Thursday.

The Fayetteville Police Department Arrest warrant initiative resulted in someone providing the location of a wanted suspect, which police say led to the execution of a search warrant and arrest.

Officials say they obtained the search warrant for a house on the 1000 block of Bernadine Street where they seized drugs, drug paraphernalia and several weapons.

A full list of items confiscated is as follows:

• 837 grams of marijuana
• 39 grams of psilocybin mushrooms
• 21 grams of oxycodone (59 dosage units)
• 1 gram of THC oil
• AM 15 Ready Rifle .223 caliber
• Bear Creek Arsenal BCA 15 5.56 Caliber
• Caliber Glock 23 40
• Romarm Cugir Mini Draco caliber 7.62
• $672.00 dollars
• Various loose cartridges 7.62, 5.56, 9mm, 40 gauge and several spent cartridge cases
• Drug paraphernalia: several digital scales, designer bags, plastic bags
• Fraudulent checks, debit cards and license plates

20-year-old Curtis Elija Hope is charged with possessing with intent to sell or supplying marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a home, possessing a controlled substance with intent to manufacture, selling or supplying Schedule 1, and two counts of trafficking in opium.

18-year-old Ajani Dasan Harvey is charged with possession with intent to sell or supply marijuana, manufacture of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture, sale or supply Schedule 1 and trafficking in Charged with opium on two counts.

Police say both men are being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center.

They are each under a $125,000 secured bond.