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Posted: July 28, 2008
Updated: July 30, 2008

DOT worker busted in drug sting

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Wesley Carey, DOT worker charged in drug case

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Wesley Carey, DOT worker charged in drug case

Smithfield, N.C. — A state Department of Transportation worker was charged Monday with drug trafficking after authorities said he sold methadone to an undercover officer.

Wesley Nelson Carey was charged with five counts of trafficking in methadone and one count each of maintaining a vehicle to keep a controlled substance and dispensing a prescription without a license.

Carey, a dump truck driver with the DOT, was arrested at a road construction site near Selma. He was being held on a $260,000 bond.

DOT spokesman Steve Abbott said the agency was cooperating with law enforcement authorities on the case.

The arrest followed a two-month undercover investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation and the Johnston County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said they purchased 50 methadone pills and found more pills in the cab of a DOT truck.

Methadone is a painkiller that also is used to help heroin addicts break their drug addictions.

RELATED TOPICS: Johnston County

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See if they had given all the state employees that 88% percent raise, this would have prevented this entire mess. That is what his story is and he should stick with it! Especially to the state officials, his actions were illegal, but he figured if the governor and his wife can use government vehicles for non-state things, why shouldn't he be allowed to. That would be my story and I would stick to it! LOL
Click to view my profile Seeminglyopposed
July 29, 2008 3:10 p.m.
I wish DOT would let enough people go that they would have enough money to cut the grass on the side of the road. It's getting so you can't see the mailboxes.
veyor
July 29, 2008 10:03 a.m.
what the heck does this guy working for DOT have to do with anything? he's a dump truck driver. OH GOD! EVERYONE IN DOT IS CORRUPT AND DOING DRUGS.

is that really the best way you could spin this article?
Click to view my profile m0nky
July 29, 2008 9:22 a.m.
I hope that the state really puts it to him for the crime he did. I'm not talking abou a slap on the wrist that they give some of these people the rape and murder others...he needs to have a hard punishment. I hope our tax money is worth it...
malave27896
July 29, 2008 8:16 a.m.
mrs nana, it is automatic dismissal, the action they are refering too is the state pressing charges of there own against him for being in a state vehicle, i hope they do, its dumbazzs like him who make the rest look bad ! i reckon he was going to get his raise one way or the other, instead of someone higher up putting the drug money in their pocket
Click to view my profile ncsingledad2boys
July 28, 2008 6:19 p.m.
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