RRPD Rally: Wanted Man Arrested; Number of Fentanyl Cases

The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following, according to Chief Shane Guyant:

A man wanted since May for motor vehicle theft was found Sunday afternoon around 4 p.m. asleep on the porch of a residence in the 400 block of Madison Street.

Jimmy I. Williams Jr. is one of the world’s most wanted people for a litany of crimes, Guyant said.

The police department received an anonymous call that Williams was sleeping and Sergeant S. Langley and Chief Officer K. Williams located him on the porch.

Jimmy Williams had multiple outstanding arrest warrants stemming from more than three separate incidents.

He was jailed without bail and is due to appear in District Court on July 25.

Arrest warrants have been issued for the following crimes:

Theft of a person

Breaking and entering a motor vehicle

Robbery

Possession of a firearm by a felon

Motor vehicle theft

Possession of a stolen motor vehicle

Arrest warrants have also been issued for the following offences:

Assault on a woman

Communicating threats

Theft offense

Resist, delay, obstruct

Fentanyl charge

On Sunday around noon, police officers went to a retail business on Premier Boulevard following reports of a woman causing a disturbance in front of a business. She was inside the business and wearing a bra and shorts.

Officers determined the woman, who had walked away and gotten into a parked vehicle, was likely intoxicated and followed her for a welfare check.

Further investigation was conducted and officers met with Trevan Lacale Parker, 36, of Conway, the registered owner of the vehicle.

Officer Morris observed several pill bottles scattered throughout the vehicle and once Parker opened the driver’s door, he saw another bottle in the door pocket.

Asked about the contents of the bottle, Parker told Morris it was his medicine.

The bottle contained a folded piece of aluminum foil and a cut plastic straw containing a white powdery substance that turned out to be fentanyl.

No other drugs were found.

Parker was charged with possession of a Class II narcotic and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was given a $6,000 bond and a July 25 district court appearance date.

The woman was released without charge and the rest of her clothes were in the vehicle.