Drugs seized in Farmville and on the Longwood campus
Published 9:26 pm Friday, March 30, 2018
The Piedmont Regional Drug and Gang Task Force arrested four men and women this week in Farmville as part of an ongoing drug investigation.
On Monday the task force executed a search warrant in the 500 block of Hill Street in Farmville, according to a press release issued Friday night by Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller. Investigators seized marijuana from the residence. Virginia F. Morgan, 22, of Richmond, was arrested and charged with one felony count of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute. She was released on bond.
Further investigation had task force members converging on a Longwood University residence hall where additional marijuana was seized along with more than $8,000 in cash. Micah W. Golemon-Mercer, 21, of Alexandria, was arrested and charged with one felony count of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute.
The task force executed another search warrant the following day, Tuesday, at a home in the 400 block of Hill Street. At this location investigators seized marijuana, hallucinogenic narcotics and five firearms. Tristin S. Harding, 21, of Chesapeake, and Charles J. Keenan, 21, of Virginia Beach, were both arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession of Schedule I or II illegal narcotics and possession of a firearm while in possession of Schedule I or II narcotics.
The investigation is ongoing, and more charges are pending from the Piedmont Regional Drug and Gang Task Force. The task force includes the Farmville Police Department, Longwood University Police Department, Buckingham County Sheriff’s Office, Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, Prince Edward County Sheriff’s Office and the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox Field Office.