BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Deputies from the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office woke up early Wednesday morning in an effort to keep your neighborhood safer. 

The Sheriff's Office had some wake up calls for suspects across the area.  The Vice-Narcotics Unit conducted a large "round up" of drug offenders in Brunswick County. 

A list of 70 people with various drug offences were targeted.  Over 50 offenders were placed under arrest and transported to jail during Operation "Spring Sweep."

Despite the success of Wednesday's operation, Sheriff John Ingram wants his deputies to keep working hard.  "We did not come this far to give up and if your name is on that list and you have not been arrested yet then I suggest you turn yourself in," said Ingram.  "We want to make sure that we look into everything and get these people off the streets."

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – A Whiteville man was one of several suspects charged during a March 15 “Booze It and Lose It” checkpoint on Hwy. 74/76 West at the Brunswick River Bridge, according to a spokesperson for the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office.

Jarmall Akeem Collins, 28, was arrested and charged with trafficking in cocaine; possession with the intent to manufacture, sell and deliver cocaine; simple possession of schedule III controlled substance (two hydrocodone 10mg pills); simple possession of schedule IV controlled substance (30 grams of crack/cocaine and two grams of marijuana); and possession of drug paraphernalia (digital scales).

As of Monday, Collins was being held at the Brunswick County Detention Facility under a $100,000 bond.

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