Nine people charged in Lee County drug bust
SANFORD — Eight people were arrested Tuesday after lawmen from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office executed a search a residence about four miles west of N.C. 87 and the Harnett County line.A ninth person was taken into custody this morning, said Lt. Bryan Allen of the Narcotics Division.The house on the 4800 block of St. Andrews Church Road, owned by Brian Chad Batts, 49, has been “an ongoing sore spot in the community,” Allen said.There had been […]