ROCKINGHAM — A man in jail accused of selling heroin also owes more than $25,000 in back child support payments, records show.
According to an arrest warrant, 42-year-old Jimmy Dell Ott Jr. sold a gram of heroin to a confidential informant for the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 22, 2019.
The warrant was issued on Jan. 7 and Ott was arrested Monday.
He is charged with one felony count each of selling a Schedule I controlled substance, delivering a Schedule I controlled substance and possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule I controlled substance.
He was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $55,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 13.
Jail records show Ott also has a $27,884.93 cash bond for child support.
Though he’s never been convicted on drug charges — aside from a 2002 conviction, his first, for driving while imparied — Ott does have a history of property crimes, according to records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.
Ott was convicted of breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering in 2007 and given probation — which was revoked the following year after another larceny after b&e conviction, resulting in a 15-month prison stay.
In 2011, he was convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon and resisting a public officer and given a suspended sentence.
Ott was convicted on two counts of felony breaking and entering in 2015 and again given probation, which was revoked the following year when he was convicted of fleeing to elude arrest, landing him behind bars for another 14 months.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
