A Burke County couple has been arrested and charged with multiple drug offenses.

Late last week, officers with the Burke Sheriff’s Narcotics Division assisted federal and other local law enforcement agencies during a traffic stop and a subsequent search of two Connelly Springs’ residences.

The searches conducted on Maple Grove Avenue and Deerfield Lane netted several ounces of meth, several pounds of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, US currency, and firearms.

24-year-old Sebastian Bronson-Lee LeFevers of Connelly Springs was detained and charged with maintaining a vehicle and dwelling place for a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell and deliver methamphetamine, and trafficking meth.

He was also charged with an outstanding warrant for assault on a female.

22-year-old Skyla Ann Rockett was also arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a vehicle and dwelling place for a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana paraphernalia.

Rockett and LeFevers were both transported to the Burke-Catawba Confinement Facility.

Rockett’s bond set at 50-thousand-dollars secured and LeFevers at 26-thousand secured.

The Drug Enforcement Agency, the bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Watauga County Sheriff’s Office and Morganton Public Safety worked with the Burke Sheriff’s office in the case.

A shooting in Catawba County over the weekend injures one Hickory man while another man faces numerous felony charges

42-year-old Joe Lewis White of Hickory was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, and communicating threats.

48-year-old Derrick Allen Shade was transported to Frye Regional Medical Center with reported non-life threatening injuries.

The shooting occurred at a grocery store on South Center Street.

White surrendered to Hickory Police.

The case remains under investigation.

A sinkhole has closed a section of road in Lenoir indefinitely.

Lenoir Public Works has closed a section of Westview Street until workers can repair the 14-plus-foot sinkhole on the side of the road.

Westview will be closed between Grove Avenue SW and Wright Street SW.

The sinkhole was discovered Monday.