Drug Charges

Sheriff deputies arriving at a Wilkes house to serve a warrant on a man for assault found him in the midst of a raft of drug paraphernalia. Four deputies went to Jessie Alexander's home on Wagon Ridge Road, to serve the warrant for Habitual Misdemeanor Assauly, about midnight Friday morning. They arrested Alexander without incident, but as they were searching the house, they discovered a baggie of cocaine, three baggies of marijuana, and numerous items of drug paraphernalia. Alexander was hauled to jail to face several new felony charges: possession with intent to manufacture, possession of comcaine and marijuana, and numerous misdemeanor charges of possessing drug paraphernalia.