Tramway Man Arrested & Charged with 28 Offenses

On Thursday June 28, 2018, Lee County sheriff’s Office ended a three month investigation into a local man distributing the too often deadly drug heroin, that has and is affecting families throughout our great nation.

Lee County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics agents arrested Timothy Leon Easterling aka “TROOPER” age 58, of 304 Pyrant Road, Sanford. With the aid and assistance of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations, Lee County Sheriff’s Office narcotics agents stopped Timothy Easterling in the rear parking lot area of Food Lion grocery store located at 2244 Jefferson Davis Highway, Tramway.

Timothy Easterling was taken into custody and transported to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office for processing. In the meantime, Lee County Sheriff’s Office narcotics agents executed a search warrant on the property located at 304 Pyrant Road, the home of Timothy Easterling. In the course of the search, agents located a stolen semi-automatic Walther PK380 pistol inside the residence. Agents continued the search off the property, which resulted in agents locating one clear plastic bag containing two prescription pill bottles labeled as prescribed to Timothy Easterling, along with one clear plastic bag containing approximately 10.2 grams of heroin. One pill bottle labeled and prescribed to Timothy Easterling, filled yesterday for 90 oxycodone pills, with directions to take one every 8 hours contained only 56 at the time of seizure. The other pill bottle labeled and prescribed to Timothy Easterling, also filled yesterday for 60 oxymorphone pills, with directions to take one every 12 hours contained only 30 pills.

Timothy Easterling faces two counts of trafficking opium/heroin,fiv
e felony counts of selling heroin, five counts of delivering heroin, five counts of possession with the intent to deliver heroin, five counts of felony maintaining a vehicle used for the purpose of selling and storing illegal controlled substances, five counts of misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of felony possession of a stolen firearm.

Timothy Easterling is jailed under a $210,000.00 secured bond.  

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