Checkpoints in the county turned up quantities of drugs and resulted in a chase that ended in South Carolina over the weekend.
Cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine were seized after a stop Friday that involved the reported victim of a domestic violence case and her alleged assailant.
The sheriff’s office said deputies were conducting a safety checkpoint at Joe Brown Highway and Hubert White Road Friday when a vehicle approached the officers, stopped, backed into a driveway, then reapproached. Deputies executed a traffic stop on the vehicle.
Amy Dawn Tammelin, 38, was driving, and admitted to deputies that her license was suspended. A records check showed that she was listed as the complainant on a protective order in her home state of New York. Her front seat passenger, Marcus Robert Sanders, 51, was the defendant in the protective order. A rear passenger also provided identification, but was not named on the report. All the individuals had suspended licenses, the report said.
Sanders told deputies the location of a drug pipe in the car. When deputies searched for the pipe, they also found multiple packets of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine.
Detention records show Sanders was charged with possession of methamphetamine, trafficking in cocaine, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana, creating counterfeit drugs, and violating a domestic violence protection order. His bond was set at $200,000. He gave his address as Ithaca, N.Y.
Tammelin was held under $75,000 secured bond. Her charges included trafficking in cocaine, possession of meth, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. She gave her address as Newfield, N.Y.
The other passenger was not charged.
In an unrelated case, an arrest is pending against a suspect who ran from law enforcement Saturday at N.C. 905 and River Road, leading deputies and Horry County Police on a wild ride approaching 100 miles per hour.
The driver pulled up to the checking station, the report said, but was unable to produce a valid driver’s license, but gave his name.
“Deputies detected the odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle and instructed the driver to exit the car,” the report said.
Instead of getting out of the car, the suspect fled. The chase went into South Carolina, where he left the highway twice, the report said. Once the car came back onto the road, but the car stopped when it left the roadway again. Two suspects led the vehicle, and led deputies and police on a footchase into a wooded area. CCSO Deputies, Horry County Police and South Carolina Highway Patrol pursued the suspects, who ultimately escaped.
Deputies found 16 milligrams of marijuana in the automobile. The car was seized and turned over to a storage facility in South Carolina.
Charges are pending in the case.
In yet another drug arrest, deputies were conducting a checking station N.C. 130 and Hallsboro Road South on Saturday when the driver of a Toyota Highlander turned the SUV around and headed back toward Brunswick County.
Deputies stopped the vehicle within about 300 yards. They detected a strong odor of marijuana on approaching the vehicle, the report said. A female passenger and a sleeping toddler were also in the car.
During a search of the vehicle, deputies found a “gift-style bag” beside the child. In the bag were “three large bags of marijuana” and five bags of THC gummies. A bag of marijuana was also located in the glove compartment, for a total of 425 grams of the drug..
Timothy Bruce Jenrette, 23, of 57 Edwards Lane, Whiteville, was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana. His bond was set at $25,000.
