A man is in jail on Thursday after he was arrested in a Johnston County drug operation.
According to the Johnston County Sheriff's Office, deputies with the sheriff's office's narcotics division and U.S. federal agents searched a home on Richardson-Bass Road in the Kenly area of Johnston County.
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When they got inside, they found the following:
- Around 131 grams of heroin (about 0.29 pounds).
- Around 65.8 grams of orange methamphetamine pills (about 0.15 pounds).
- Around 12 pounds of marijuana, which the sheriff's office said was a "trafficking quantity."
- $25,371 cash.
Deputies arrested Manuel Rivera Sanchez, who was under probation for distributing meth. He was arrested and charged with:
- Trafficking in heroin.
- Trafficking in methamphetamines.
- Trafficking in marijuana.
- Felony maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance.
- Possession of drug paraphernalia.
Sanchez's bond was set at $1.1 million for the charges.