Scotland Neck Man Sentenced For Selling Heroin

RALEIGH – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced GERALD WHITAKER, 41, of Scotland Neck, North Carolina, to 120 months in prison and 3 years of supervised released for distribution of heroin.  WHITAKER previously pled guilty to these charges on November 23, 2015.    

Between June 21, 2013, and July 22, 2013, the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement used an informant to buy 182 doses of heroin from WHITAKER on four occasions in Scotland Neck, N.C. 

WHITAKER received an enhanced punishment as a career offender based on his four prior state convictions for selling cocaine. 

The investigation of this case was conducted by the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement. The federal prosecution was handled by Special Assistant United States Attorney Glenn Perry.  Mr. Perry is a prosecutor with the Pitt County District Attorney’s Office.  Pitt County District Attorney Kimberly Robb has assigned Mr. Perry to the United States Attorney’s Office to prosecute federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force criminal matters.  Mr. Perry’s assignment to the United States Attorney’s Office has been made possible by grants funded by the Governor’s Crime Commission.