HAMLET — Police found more drugs at the home of two men charged following a traffic stop earlier this week.
According to the Hamlet Police Department, officers and investigators executed a search warrant Jan. 25 at a home on Entwistle Street.
Investigators say it’s the same home that 38-year-old Brent Edward Rankin of Charlotte and 34-year-old Martin Richard Bowman of Hamlet, pulled into during a traffic stop the day before, and that both men were staying there.
During the search, police reportedly found psychedelic mushrooms and suspected crack cocaine, meth and heroin.
Police also reportedly recovered several handguns, a shotgun and assorted drug paraphernalia.
So far, no additional charges have been filed related to the search.
However, the two have each been charged with one felony count each of conspiracy and receiving stolen goods in connection to a handgun, reported stolen in Hamlet, that was recovered during the traffic stop.
Click here to read about the traffic stop.
Rankin and Bowman are each being held in the Richmond County Jail under a $500,000 secured bond and are scheduled to appear in court Feb. 2.
Sgt. Daniel Smith and Detective Jonathan Ingram worked the case.
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