License check results in five drug arrests

SHALLOTTE, NC (WWAY) — A special ops unit with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office made five arrests over the weekend.

According to spokeswoman Emily Flax, officers were performing a license checking station at Old Shallotte Road and McMilly Road in Shallotte around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. They said they found 89 bags of heroin along with pills, marijuana, paraphernalia and a gun in one car.

They said they arrested the five men in the car. Those men are Jarvis Alonzo Davis, 34, of Wilmingon, Bradley Christopher Griffin Jr., 29, of Longwood, Steven Thomas Hansford III, 25, of Hallsboro, Aveon Lasha Slappy, 19, of Bolivia, and Delonne Watts, 25, of Longwood.

The men face several charges including possession of heroin and cocaine, drug paraphernalia and concealed weapons.

Flax said Watts, Davis and Slappy are still in jail. Hansford and Griffin were released Sunday.