PAMLICO COUNTY, NC (WITN) — Officials in an east Carolina county say they caught a man packaging opioids for sale with multiple guns, homemade silencers and a 3D printer he allegedly used to produce parts and components of made firearms.
According to the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office, 36-year-old David O’Neal is behind bars on drug counts and multiple gun counts.
Officials said they searched the Lowland man’s home on August 9 after a home was broken into and guns stolen several days earlier.
At O’Neal’s home, officers said they found over 600 grams of liquid methadone, a prescription opiate that had been repackaged for sale, as well as numerous firearms and homemade silencers, a 3D printer used to manufacture gun parts and components, and one of them stolen firearms.
Pamlico County officials found these items after searching O’Neal’s home.(Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office)
Officials say O’Neal, a convicted felon, bought gun parts, including Polymer80 kits, and built working guns.
O’Neal is in the Pamlico County Jail on $515,000 bail and faces the following charges: possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm, trafficking in opiates through possession and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
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