A federal jury convicted a North Carolina man on three charges of trafficking methamphetamine, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of North Carolina. Tamarcus Shaquan Ellis, 34, of Goldsboro, faces up to life in prison when sentenced in December.
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were investigating Ellis as part of an operation targeting crystal methamphetamine dealers operating in Goldsboro and Jacksonville in early 2021. By late March 2021, the ATF had arrested a number of high-level methamphetamine traffickers and began targeting Ellis’ drug trafficking organization,
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