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Richmond Co. deputies reportedly find meth, concealed gun during traffic stop

ROCKINGHAM — A Scotland County man is accused of having meth while riding in a vehicle with no tags.

A deputy with the Richmond County Sheriff’s office stopped a blue Chevrolet Tahoe with no registration tag around 10:16 a.m. May 4, according to a press release issued Tuesday.

The deputy reportedly saw three occupants as he approached the vehicle.

The driver, 27-year-old Austin Shane Lane of Hamlet, reportedly produced his driver’s license and told the deputy that the vehicle had not been registered, but that he did have insurance on it.

When the deputy asked Lane to move some papers on the dash that were blocking the VIN plate, the deputy spotted a semi-automatic handgun, according to the release.

Other deputies arrived on scene and Lane and his two passengers were removed from the Tahoe, the release states

While they were removing the front-seat passenger, 24-year-old Zachary Earl Cribb, deputies reportedly found a bag containing an unspecified amount of meth.

Cribb was charged with possession of methamphetamine and served with an outstanding warrant for larceny of a motor vehicle. No details on that alleged crime were given in the release.

Cribb was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a combined $25,000 secured bond. Jail records show he is also being held without bond on a probation violation. He is scheduled to appear in court May 19 on the criminal charges and his probation hearing is set for May 16.

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Online court records show Cribb also has a pending 2019 misdemeanor charge of injury to real property in Scotland County.

Lane was issued a citation for carrying a concealed firearm and operating a non-registered vehicle and released at the scene, according to the release. 

Court records show Lane has a May 26 court date for those charges and a May 17 appearance on another registration violation

Cribb is still on parole until June 27, according to records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.

Records show Cribb was given probation in May 2019 when he was convicted in Richmond County on five counts of felony breaking and entering, and one felony count each of larceny, larceny of firearms and breaking and entering a house of worship.

Cribb’s probation was revoked in August of that year, and he was incarcerated.In November Cribb was convicted on three felony counts of larceny of a motor vehicle.

While serving time on that conviction and the probation revocation, Cribb was convicted in June 2020 in Scotland County of: two counts each of felony breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering; and one felony count each of possession of stolen goods, receiving stolen goods, larceny of a motor vehicle and burning personal property.

Cribb was released from prison Sept. 30, 2021, records show.

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

 



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