RFP Staff
♦ Back on October 14th Larry Scott Barnhardt, 44, of 505 Spring Garden Street in Enochville was arrested along with his father Billy Joe Barnhardt, Sr.,81, and his brother Billy Joe Barnhardt, Jr., 45, were arrested for methamphetamine possession and maintain a one-pot meth lab in a back yard shed. The Barnhardts were raided by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office who were tipped off that the Barnhardts were alleged to be using and distributing meth, heroin, and painkillers. Larry, a convicted felon, was said to possess a firearm.
When the Sheriff’s Office raided the Barnhardts, they found a .22 caliber revolver and ammo as well as precursor chemicals used to manufacture meth. All of this led to Larry Barnhardt being charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, manufacturing methamphetamine (felony), possession of precursor materials used to manufacture methamphetamine (felony), trafficking 28 grams or more of opium (felony), conspiracy to traffick 28 grams or more of opium by possession (felony), and maintaining a dwelling for keeping and selling controlled substances (felony).
On Thursday trial in Rowan County Superior Court he pleaded guilty to attempted manufacture of methamphetamine, conspiracy to traffic heroin, maintaining a dwelling for keeping and selling controlled substances, 2 counts of possession of methamphetamine precursor with the intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Larry Barnhardt received a sentence of 70 months to 96 months in the penitentiary and a recommendation to the DART program of chemical dependency. The father Billy Joe Barnhardt, Sr. remains in the Rowan County Detention Center under a secured $250,000 bond and Larry’s brother Billy Joe Barnhardt, Jr. remains in the Rowan County Detention under a $200,000 secured bond.
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