Sentences levied in shooting

Eight of the 10 men charged after a publicized shootout in Rockwell last summer received hefty sentences from a federal judge Tuesday.

At the Federal Court House in Greensboro, Judge Frank Bullock held hearings for the eight involved in the drug-related shootout in June.

According to police, a drug deal gone bad started the fight at 360 Hilbert Road. The brawl spilled out onto the street and into the surrounding woods. After the shootout, two groups of men fled in different directions. After a five-hour manhunt, police arrested seven men, confiscated two kilograms of cocaine — with an estimated street value of $200,000 — and numerous firearms.

Chad Moose, drug investigator with the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department; Mike Lewis, with the federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency; and Jim Williamson, with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, collaborated on the case, which was tied into an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigation in Charlotte and Stanly County.

All the men were charged with trafficking in cocaine and a federal firearms violation. They all pleaded guilty in November and December.

Sentenced were:

• Cedric Edwana Cole, 31, 360 Hilbert Road, Rockwell, 30 years, two months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
• John Duley Lawrence, 32, of Albemarle, six years, eight months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
• Corrie Darriel Ellis, 27, of Fayetteville, three years, four months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
• Theodore Glenn Brooks, 29, of Albemarle, 15 years, 10 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
• Rico Millard Crump, 25, of Albemarle, 25 years, 10 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
• Wayne Dontez Swaringer, 22, of Albemarle, 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
• Marcus Dwayne Pemberton, 24, of Albemarle, five years in prison, five years supervised release and a $3,500 fine.
• Jamal Lumpkin, 28, of Kannapolis, 10 years, 10 months in prison, followed by five years supervised release.

Two other men involved in the incident — Adrian Demetrius, 28, and Martinus Serell Crump, 30, both of Albemarle — are scheduled for hearings in April.

Moose said authorities did not seize the house at 360 Hilbert Road — where the shootout began — because it was already in “financial trouble.

” Several people were trying to repossess the house at the time,” he said.