ROCKINGHAM — A man and woman are facing charges, accused of using a location in Cordova to keep and sell meth.
According to warrants from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found Daren Steven Grainger, 32, of U.S. 1 South, with 11 grams of methamphetamine, two loaded syringes, two unused syringes and plastic baggies.
Investigators say Grainger and 28-year-old Cayce Leigh Honeycutt, of Cox Street in West Rockingham, were using a home on 6th Street in Cordova for the drugs.
Honeycutt, a convicted felon, was also allegedly in possession of a Smith & Wesson SD40 VE handgun.
Both were charged with a felony count of maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place for a controlled substance.
Grainger was also charged with one felony count of possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
He was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $25,000 secured bond.
Honeycutt was also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and jailed under a $50,000 secured bond.
Grainger and Honeycutt are scheduled to appear in court Aug. 20.
Jail records show both are also charged with a probation violation. Honeycutt’s violation was filed by the U.S. Marshal’s Service.
Online court records show Grainger has a pending charge of assault on a female.
Grainger was released from prison on June 14 after serving a six-month sentence after being convicted on two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and one count of felony breaking and entering, according to records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction. He had initially been given probation on the breaking and entering conviction.
Records show Grainger was first convicted in 2009 for misdemeanor breaking and entering and possessing stolen goods. His probation was revoked and he was sentenced to a month and 15 days behind bars.
Grainger’s probation was also revoked on a 2012 conviction for larceny after breaking and entering, this time being incarcerated for five months.
He was also previously convicted of possession of a Schedule II controlled substance in 2015; and two counts of misdemeanor larceny and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia in 2018.
While no convictions show up in state records, Honeycutt was convicted and sentenced in 2015 on federal meth charges. She and and 10 others pleaded guilty to pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
