Staff Writer
A 70 year-old woman who owns a home in a notorious drug neighborhood was arrested Thursday.
Bladen County Sheriff Steve Bunn said Love Anna Kay Shipman, 70, of 285 Sandpit Rd., Elizabethtown, was charged with maintaining a dwelling for the distribution of controlled substances. She was released on bond.
Deputies arrested Shipman around 3 p.m. Thursday. They also captured Maurice Rico Smith of the same address.
Smith was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, and maintaining a dwelling and a vehicle for the distribution of controlled substances.
The arrests came from an undercover operation and neighborhood complaints, Bunn said. The investigation resulted from a raid on two Sandpit Road homes in August.
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