CORNELIUS, N.C. — Police in Cornelius have arrested two men in connection with a drug investigation that already involves several counties in North Carolina and may grow even bigger.
Officers arrested Sean Younger, 43, and Tryone Durham, 43, after they stopped the BMW that the two men were driving on Tuesday.
Durham is a native of Trinidad who is living in New York. According to a search warrant officers had watched two men unload five-gallon plastic buckets at Younger's home on Harken Drive in Cornelius. They were the same kind of plastic buckets that officers in Winston-Salem had found filled with marijuana, and an informant had told there that the drugs were headed for Younger's home in Cornelius.
According to the search warrant those buckets had been shipped to Fed Ex offices in Charlotte and other cities in North Carolina. The informant told police that Younger had people picking up those packages and delivering them.
Officers aren't saying how many drugs or cash they seized but people living in the two neighborhoods were police searched said they had wondered about the high-dollar cars that kept coming and going.
"High dollar cars -- a BMW 745, a Bentley ... something definitely was going on there," said Jim Kontje, who lives two doors down from Younger's home on Harken Drive.
Police confiscated five cars -- including that BMW, a Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, Maserati and a Bentley.
They say federal agents are involved in trying to trace the source of those shipments and the investigation isn't done.
"I don't want to say how big it's going to get because we don't know but we're definitely not finished and I'm sure there's going to be other things come out of it," Cornelius Police Chief Bence Hoyle said Wednesday.
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