LAUREL HILL — Scotland County Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest Wednesday after they said they recovered a pound of crystallized methamphetamines mailed to a house in Scotland County. The drugs had a street value of $45,000 to $60,000, deputies said.

Janet Denise Norton, 33, of 21840 Bunch Road in Laurel Hill, was processed and arrested for level III trafficking of methamphetamine on Wednesday. She placed in the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center under a $1.5 million bond.

The arrest was made after the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office Narcotic and Criminal Division was contacted by the Fayetteville Police Department Interdiction Unit. The unit identified a suspicious package that was intended to arrive at Norton’s address on Tuesday, deputies said.

The package was delivered to Norton’s address on Bunch Road on Wednesday and she identified as the recipient of the package, according to deputies.

“The package came from a known narcotic state within the United States, which is one of the things we spoke about during the investigation,” said Sgt. Earl Haywood of the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office. “I developed a lot of intelligence for certain regions and where narcotics are located and the package came for a state that is known for highly addictive narcotics.”

Haywood said it is hard to track a package back to where it came from in cases like this. Most times,packages are sent from a fraudulent address.

“Once they send out narcotics, it’s hard to track them back, unless you go through it federally,” Haywood said.

After specific indicators were identified, lawmen obtained a search warrant for the package and located the methamphetamine inside, according to a report The arrest made as part of joint operation with the Sheriff’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigation.

Janet Denise Norton
https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_Norton.jpgJanet Denise Norton

Janet Denise Norton
https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_Nortonprint.jpgJanet Denise Norton

By Abby Hackmann

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