A Morganton woman was charged with trafficking drugs after an investigation Friday.
Angela Santana, 43, of 121 View St., Morganton, was charged with trafficking opium/heroin and trafficking methamphetamine, said Lt. Josiah Brown with the Morganton Department of Public Safety.
MDPS officers received a call around 12:30 p.m. to assist probation and parole officers at Santana’s home on View Street, Brown said.
When they got there, they recovered about a pound of methamphetamine, a quarter pound of marijuana with some of it individually packaged, 77 pressed fentanyl pills, 15 grams of fentanyl that hadn’t been pressed into pills and a gram of cocaine, Brown said.
Santana had previously been arrested May 23 on drug trafficking charges after a search then by probation and parole officers turned up 54 grams of methamphetamine and 19 grams of fentanyl, information previously reported by The News Herald said.
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No probable cause was presented at a hearing in June so the charges were dropped. That’s typical in felony cases while prosecutors and law enforcement officers seek indictments by a grand jury, something Brown said MDPS investigators plan to do for the May charges.
Santana previously was in the newspaper for a June story on abatement action the city of Morganton took against a property owned by her father.
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Authorities told the newspaper then they’d been inundated with more than 120 complaints about the home since 2014.
Santana currently is on probation for a 2021 conviction of possession of a Schedule I controlled substance and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, according to a records check on the North Carolina Department of Public Safety website.
She was held under a $250,000 secured bond with a court date set for Monday for her newest charges, Brown said.
More charges are anticipated as the investigation continues.
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