Detectives with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office have charged three people from the Supply area on multiple drug charges.
Jonathan Joel Velez, Kristopher Daniel Schultz, and Tariah Mona Darling were arrested after a traffic stop on U.S. 17 near Thomasboro Road in Calabash on Thursday, according to sheriff’s office spokeswoman Emily Flax.
According to arrest warrants, the three suspects are charged with possessing 4 to 14 grams of heroin, as well as approximately 100 bindles of heroin.
Velez, 20, of Bacons Bluff in Supply, was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, selling and deliver heroin, two counts of trafficking heroin, conspiring to traffic heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the Brunswick County Detention Facility under a $500,000 secured bond.
Schultz, 28, of Dockside Drive SW in Supply, was charged with two counts of trafficking heroin, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin, conspiring to traffic heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the Brunswick County Detention jail under a $200,000 secured bond.
Darling, 18, of Vinton Street in Supply, was charged with two counts of trafficking heroin, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin, conspiring to traffic heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. She was booked Brunswick County Detention Facility under a $40,000 secured bond.
The investigation of this case was conducted by the sheriff’s office drug enforcement unit and the special operations unit following tips and complaints from the community, Flax said.
