Four people were arrested Thursday afternoon from a drug bust at a Morganton motel.

About 2:30, a Morganton Public Safety Narcotics Investigator received a complaint about the odor of marijuana coming from a room at The Comfort Inn on Burkemont Avenue.The officer with assistance from additional Public Safety officers and the Burke Narcotics Task Force conducted a search inside the room.

Officers found:

 - 5 loaded pistols

 - Over $18,000 in cash

 - 2 kilo's of meth (4.4 pounds)

 - a bullet proof vest

 - numerous items of drug paraphernalia

Through the investigation, it was determined that the hotel room had been used for sale and use of illegal narcotics.

Arrested in the case were four people:

Russell Monroe Dunn Jr. 34,

Erica Lindsay Walker, 29

Dunn and Walker's bond was set at $400,000 secured bond each.

Joseph Tray Benfield, 20 and a 16 year old female had bond set at $200,000 secured each with all four scheduled to appear in Burke District Court today.

The Caldwell County Fire Marshal's Office and Sheriff's Investigators are seeking information about a suspicious fire.

Just before 10:30 Wednesday night, North Catawba Fire and Rescue responded to a mobile home fire in the 2700 block of Clarks Chapel Road Lenoir. The fire appears to have been intentionally set.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Caldwell County Fire Marshal's Office at 757-1277 or Crime Stoppers at 758-8300.

Former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene and her son Michael Greene, are facing federal charges related to the misuse of public funds. U.S.Attorney R.Andrew Murray made the announcement Thursday.

According to allegations made in the indictment, between 2007 and August 12th 2017, Wanda Greene and Michael Greene carried out a conspiracy to embezzle public finds, by misusing their government credit cards, also known as PCards issued to them by Buncombe County, and by using the PCards of other County employees, to make inappropriate purchases.