Savannah LeeAnn Goins, Methamphetamine Trafficking, North Carolina 2024

Four Indicted on Methamphetamine Trafficking Charges in North Carolina

A federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina recently returned a criminal indictment charging four individuals with federal charges for their involvement in a drug conspiracy trafficking methamphetamine. The indictment alleges that the defendants conducted multiple drug sales in Gaston, Lincoln, and Cleveland Counties from at least 2019 to February 2020.

The indictment charges Savannah LeeAnn Goins, 19, of Crouse, N.C.; Marlee Dare Griffith, 21, of Cherryville, N.C.; Ryan Andrew Prescott, 21, of Lincolnton, N.C.; and Joseph Michael Vassey, 43, of Enoree, S.C., with conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Griffith, Vassey, and Prescott are facing additional charges for distribution of, and possession with intent to distribute, methamphetamine. Griffith and Goins are also charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

A fifth co-conspirator, Dakota Reese Davis, 33, of Lincolnton, pleaded guilty yesterday to drug trafficking conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to the indictment, law enforcement executed search warrants and seized items incident to arrest that total five firearms, one of which was stolen, ammunition, narcotics, drug paraphernalia, and more than $8,900 in U.S. currency.

The defendants are currently in federal custody. The charges in the indictment are allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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