Sheriff deputies have been busy in recent days with a number of drug- and alcohol-related cases.



A 19-year old Wilkesboro man is charged in the second underage alcohol consumption case of the week. When deputies arrested Darryl Gorciack Sunday on outstanding warrants, they had him do a breath test for alcohol when he arrived at jail. On successive breathalyzer tests, Goriack blew a .24 and a .25 -- three times the legal lmit for someone who is of age. Deputies say he seemed proud of the high numbers, and boasted that he gets drunk every day.



A Moravian Falls man seemed to be similarly proud of his drug explouts, when deputies arrested him Saturday night. Brandon Kilby was found hiding in the bathroom of his house when deputies responded to a disturbance call there. As a deputy searched him, Kilby grabbed a small baggie of something from his pocket and tried to swallow it. The baggie tested positive for cocaine. When they got him to jail, deputies say Kilby showed another prisoner a second bag of coke he'd been able to conceal from the deputies, then dropped it on the floor. He faces two drug possession charges, a resisting arrest charge, and a charge of possession drug paraphernalia.



A 15-yer old Wilkes Central High School student was pulled from class after the school resource officer received a tip that he had cocaine in his possession. When he was escorted out of class and searched, the deputy did find a baggie of what the student admitted was cocaine. His name is being withheld because of his age.

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