JBS USA,Inc., a Lenoir establishment, is recalling about 4,922 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S.Department of Agriculture's Food Safety amd Inspection Service announced Tuesday. The ground chuck beef items were produced on July 15th. The following products are subject to recall:
 * 2-lb.black Styrofoam plastic wrapped trays containing ground beef labeled "CERTIFIED ANGUS
    BEEF CHUCK 80%LEAN 20% FAT" with a production date 7/15/17 and case code 541640.
The products subject to call bear establishment number "EST.34176" inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to a distribution center in North Carolina for further distribution.

The Burke County Sheriff's Office responded to call Tuesday morning regarding a death in the J & R Mobile Home Park, 2509 NC 18-US 64. Sheriff's Deputies located a deceased 61-year-old female, in her mobile home. Sheriff's Investigators arrived on the scene to begin a death investigation and contacted the SBI for assistance. The investigation is continuing.

Two Caldwell County residents are charged with trafficking methamphetamine. Sheriff Alan Jones announced Tuesday that an undercover drug investigation resulted in the arrests of 22-year-old Tony Aaron Ferguson and 22-year-old Kirsten Leigh Ann Short, both of Hudson. Ferguson and Short were suspected by investigators to be major suppliers of methamphetamine in Caldwell and Burke Counties. The investigation included the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office Ice Unit, Lenoir Police, the Burke County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Division and Morganton Department of Public Safety.