Big drug bust in Wilmington Tuesday morning

He is a Corrections Officer at Lebanon Correctional

Interesting that one needs 11 guns with only 6 hands. Obviously, there is/was the potential for violence in this "drug ring" which leads this reader to believe there is more to this story or other connections to be made. Do the guns end up in Mexico, traded for narcotics, perhaps? How many lives have been taken in Mexico (out of sight out of mind) if that is the case?? These charges only lead me to believe that more was occurring than just peddling party spark and night club fever by few. The rest is up to the legal process... which will undoubtedly turn up bigger fish. Folks, these are high value perps' with leverage to be had. "You tell us who you get your drugs from, and where you obtained these weapons, and we will see to it that you still go to college before you're 30..."

Until you walk at least 600 miles in my/our shoes then you have no right to chastise anything about why we CHOSE to do what we did.

"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." That is for all of you "perfect- little angels" out there who have never said anything mean, never did anything wrong, and have always been nice to everyone you have met along your path. Anyone who can say they lead a life like this, than please throw the stone. A message to Whiteville people - get off Katy's case. High school was a long time ago and if you are still hurt by actions or words in high school - then you need to get a life.

People, people, people. Don't you all get it. It's the governments fault for taking our rights away as parents to punish our children. You can't raise them like in the olden days where we used belts and switches. Now the social service takes them and allows the foster families to do that and get paid for it. So the children become angry for what has happened to them and commit crimes and go to jail. Then we blame the parents. Give us back our rights to disipline our own children.Children throw in our faces that if we hit them they will call the police. Well let them and let the police tell them that we are only helping them not to commit crimes. As for us supporting these criminals. I think instead of them sitting in jail they should be made to work off their crimes. A jail should be built with a big building attached so the criminals can learn to sew clothes to give to poor people, learn to work on cars and have the public have their cars fixed for free to give back to us for supporting them. Let them fix the holes in our roads. Hard labor for them would make us feel better.There are plenty of senoir citzens, disabled people and grandparents raising granchildren that can't do all the work they need to do in and around their homes. Make the crimminals do it. Don't you agree people? And the most important part is not to just let them out of jail with nothing to offer them cause it only leads to more crime for them to get back on there feet. They should not have a place to live to get out they should have a job also. And jobs shouldn't ask if the person's been in jail, cause some want to work to get their lives back and they can't cause they have crimminal backgrounds and can't get the job so they give up and go back to crime to support themselves and their families. Do you agree? That is what needs to be changed.

So very, very sad that their life is wasted at such a young age of 21 years. I will pray for all of these families. I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2009 and God Bless. Thanks, GG

I read the comments from those of you who "know" Katy and chastised everyone for being so hard on her. I knew her too. In fact I knew her a VERY long time, and she got exactly what was coming to her. Those of you who “know/knew” her are probably headed down the exact same path she is, and just haven’t gotten yours yet. She was not particularly nice, she was not particularly hard working, and everything she had in life was basically given to her. She came from a pretty well-to-do family and could have really made something of herself, but instead decided to get wrapped up in this crap. She's always made bad decisions. This wasn't her first one, so please don't argue that "one bad choice shouldn't determine the rest of someone's life." She made years of bad choices. I hope they throw the book at her. Maybe then she’ll get the time to figure out how to straighten her train wreck of a life. However, I must thank you Katy Williams. You have given your old classmates and Whiteville enough fodder to feed to gossip mills for the next several years.

Unlike the rest of you, I knew Ashley. I went to school with her. She's smart, pretty and she is a great basketball and soccer player. She had the resources to much more for herself than this. From what I could tell, her parents were always very supportive of her ... I guess what I am trying to say is that, yes, Ashley and this Katie laid the bricks for themselves, and now they have to walk the path they have chosen. It is a terrible situation, but the girls are guilty ... I do symathize for the families, but some people are enablers, as stated by someone else on here - some people are being too critical and harsh ... Lets just hope that this will bring these girls to some reality and maybe even serve them a big helping of humble pie.

The problem is, as I have said before, we now have a prison industry in this country. It does not serve the common good to send non-violent criminals into this industry. And as long as drugs stay illegal in this country, there will be too much cash to be made for the trafficking to stop! Until it touches someone you love, people blindly led by the government like Guest123456 will continue to be self-righteous about the situation. Guest7969 says that drugs are destroying lives, which is true. But, wouldn't it be better if there was no black market for the dealers? I mean ... take crack for instance, it was dreamed up purely to make cocaine more profitable. If the money incentive wasn't there, it would have never come about. How about our children? Would they be a target of dealers if there wasn't any cash to be made from them? Could addicts get help they need if they didn't have to worry about going to jail? And what about the people going to jail, are their lives not destroyed too. But as it is, too many people on BOTH sides are making too much money. Even ultra-conservative William Buckley Jr advocated the legalization of drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Heroin, that's just crazy you say? ... Not really, the fact is, 100% pure heroin is a benign drug, it is additive, (which is a very good reason not to start taking it) but it's not until (because of profit) it gets mixed with everything from drain cleaner to talcum powder that it becomes deadly. So wouldn't it be better if someone was addicted to heroin, they could get pure heroin? If I take an aspirin, I want it to be aspirin and not some white substance mixed with a little aspirin then sold to me to make a bigger profit. (sounds like China doesn't it) I bring this up for a reason. Look at the news of our city, people are dying at an alarming rate. They are not OD'ing from drugs, they are OD'ing from bullets, which is a by-product of the black market drug trade! Do I believe that drugs should be legalized ... maybe, I would say at least marijuana should be. It is de facto legal in the Netherlands, and the percentage of users there is the same as here. (With teenage use actually being lower) So I don't think it would make usage increase. The main thing I'm saying is this .... "Put them all in jail" ... is not working, except for some self-righteous rednecks ... racist ... and the people making money on it. At the very least, this country really needs to get a grip on the difference between violent and non-violent criminals, and punish them accordingly, but not together!

I miss u guys :(

Do not pray for the welfare of these people. Boy, I have never seen so many people want to have prayer for thugs and drug dealers. It blows my mind that you would even think to do such things. These people chose the life they are leading. They didn't just stumble into the quantity of drugs they had, which means they have been doing this for a while, the whole time, thinking they were smart enough not to get caught. They all think that and they all eventually get caught. If there is enough to make this a federal drug case, then they should because prison time means prison time. If they had sold ecstasy to your child and your child got into a car crash and died, or overdosed and died, would you asking for prayer for these thugs and saying they just made a mistake and went down the wrong path with the wrong people. What you should be praying for is that the district attorney, lawyers and the judge once involved, all make the criminal justice system do what it is supposed to do, and that is put away felons so they are not able to leech off society!!!!