RFP Staff
♦ Brandon Scott Goins, 25, of Shuping Mill Road in Rockwell, was arrested Monday after 2 a.m. during a traffic checkpoint stop on the 1600 block of Peeler Road just outside of Salisbury.
A Rowan Sheriff’s deputy smelled the odor of marijuana coming from Goins’ car. When the deputy questioned Goins about the marijuana odor, Goins denied smoking it. Unconvincing. The deputies ordered Goins and the passenger out of the car and began a search which netted an alleged white powdery substance in two spoons (Explained away as a noodle flavoring packet). Next came a capped syringe (Goins passed it off as a diabetic syringe belonging to grandma) and then an alleged marijuana joint. Then came a bottle filled with 10.4 grams of the potent painkiller percocet. Goins, never at a loss for explanations, offered that percocet must’ve been left in the car by “someone else”.
Finally the deputies searched Goins and found more spoons and a straw covered with a white powdery substance. Oh that noodle flavoring. Finally wilting under the weight of insurmountable evidence and the loss of “noodle flavoring power” Goins allegedly admitted the straw was employed to snort a percocet pill.
Goins was charged with 2 counts of trafficking heroin or opium (felony), possession with intent to manufacture/sell/distribute a controlled substance schedule II (misdemeanor), possession of control substance schedule VI (misdemeanor), possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor), and driving while license revoked (misdeamenor).
Under a $50,000 secured bond, Goins is being held at the Rowan County Detention Center.
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