RFP Staff
♦ In a city wracked by a major heroin, meth, and crack epidemic, the epidemic was bound to spread to “10 Gig” Catawba College. Students are regularly seen cruising Brenner Avenue on foot and in car in search of “pharmaceutical sales reps” from the local gangs. Last year two Catawba College employees were busted for peddling “ice” a more compelling form of meth. Drugs are everywhere to be found in Salisbury and sadly at Catawba College.
Catawba student Jordan Lee Chillson, 22, from Mooresville, N.C. was arrested September 30th for several alleged vehicle break-ins. Rowan Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to motor vehicle breaking and entering dispatch in the early morning hours at the 1400 block Devonmere Place. The victim described his white Chevvy pickup truck and the suspect. Soon the deputies spotted the missing vehicle near Overhill Road where they pulled it over. Chillson, driving the pickup truck, claimed it was his father’s. No dice. A witness, driven to the scene, identified Chillson as the one breaking into the pickup truck. Chillson was arrested and charged with 2 counts of breaking and entering a motor vehicle with the intent to commit larceny (felony). It was all down hill from there. Soon it was discovered Chillson’s wallet contained aluminum foil sheets with alleged heroin residue on them. The Sheriff’s Office broke the shocking news to officials at Catawba College.
Catawba college officials performed a through search of Chillson’s dorm room and located metal boxes containing heroin, 170 amphetamine doses, and assorted drug paraphernalia. In the dorm room search Chillson’s roomie Kevin Ryan Scott, 22, a Charlotte native, was alleged to possess heroin.
Jordan Lee Chillson was charged with possession with intent to manufacture/sell/distribute a controlled substance II (amphetamine) (felony), possession of a controlled substance schedule I (heroin) (felony) and possession with intent to sell/deliver controlled substances within 300 feet of school property (felony). Chillson was under a $15,000 secured bond and his bond was fulfilled.
Roommate Scott was charged with possession of controlled substance schedule I (heroin) (felony). Under a $2,000 secured bond, Scott met his bail.
It is yet unknown if Chillson and Scott will remain a part of the community of scholars at North Carolina’s first 10 gig college or suffer banishment.
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