Loris Man Sentenced on Federal Drug and Firearm Charges

Florence, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Norod Arcane McCullough, age 24, of Loris, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced McCullough to a total of 72 months imprisonment and five years’ supervised release.

Evidence presented at the guilty plea hearing established that on October 21, 2016, Norod Arcane McCullough was arrested in Conway, South Carolina, for possession of a firearm in a drug trafficking crime and possession of heroin with intent to distribute. The arrest and convictions resulted from the seizure of a backpack containing the firearm and the heroin found in a repossessed vehicle by a local car dealer who called the police. While the police were on the scene McCullough called the car dealer and said that his backpack had been left in the repossessed car and that he wanted it back. When McCullough arrived to retrieve the backpack, he was arrested by the police.

The case was investigated by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and local Horry County Police departments.  Assistant United States Attorney Alfred W. Bethea, Jr., of the Florence office prosecuted the case.

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