SALISBURY ó Two out-of-town men who were arrested in April for trafficking heroin were indicted by a Rowan County grand jury in May.
Namath Phillip Beam, 25, Charlotte, was indicted on two counts of trafficking opium or heroin, conspiring to traffic opium or heroin, possession with intent to manufacture sell or deliver heroin, simple possession of marijuana and maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled substance.
Daniel Paneda Ponce, 22, of Rock Hill, S.C., was indicted on two counts of trafficking opium or heroin, conspiring to traffic opium or heroin, possession with intent to manufacture sell or deliver heroin, simple possession of marijuana and maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled substance.
Both men were arrested as a result of a drug investigation. Beam and Ponce remain in the Rowan County Dentention Center.
The grand jury also indicted the following:
Gabriel Brown, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Brown was charged in Feburary with with shooting at two vehicles, threatening to kill a woman and assaulting a man. Warrants said he called a woman and told her he was going to shoot her. Brown also assaulted a man with a .45-caliber handgun.
Jared Charbonneau, intentional child abuse and serious injury. Charbonneau was watching his girlfriendís 5-year-old boy on March 19 when the incident happened. He was arrested in April.
Aaron Lee Ervin, first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense of a child and indecent liberties with a child.
Ervin was charged in April with several sex offenses involving an 11-year-old girl.
Barabara Hiott, 21 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and 21 counts of trafficking in opium.
She was arrested in December for doctor shopping and selling various prescription drugs. Authorities said Hiott used several doctors to get the controlled substances, and used different pharmacies to fill the prescriptions. Hiott also used different variations of her name to avoid detection.
Terry Lamont McCullough, resisting, delaying or obstructing a police officer, two counts of assault on a government official, felony possession of crack with intent to sell or deliver, misdemeanor possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
McCullough was arrested in February after he punched a police officer and was found with seven rocks of crack cocaine inside his pockets and a small amount of marijuana and two crack pipes.
Kevin Price and Zachary Ragan, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Both were charged in April after an armed robbery of Jackís Grocery on Bringle Ferry Road. The suspect demanded money and left with more than $4,000 cash and five cartons of cigarettes.
Robert Louis Rehak Jr., 10 counts of trafficking heroin and 10 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud/forgery.
Rehak was arrested in February with ědoctor shoppingî from local physicians for several months in 2010.
Bert Tanner, six counts of statutory rape, five counts of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree sex offense.
Tanner was arrested in April on sex offenses involving two juvenile girls.
Bobby Wesley, felony breaking and entering and two counts of misdemeanor breaking or forcing open a coin-currency operated machine.
Wesley was arrested in January for his involvement in a break-in at Lancasterís Car Wash.
Jason Wood, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, and selling cocaine.
Wood was arrested in December as part of the Rowan County Sheriffís Office ěNaughty Listî which was the result of an undercover drug operation.
Robert Thomas Henderson Jr, assault by strangulation and resisting a public officer.
Henderson was arrested in November after he choked a woman until she lost consciousness, authorities said.
John Cletis Jackson Jr., possession of firearm by a felon and possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
A sheriffís deputy who was working private security at a party found a MAC-10 submachine gun and a MAC-10 magazine with ammunition inside a bag hidden on top of a car tire.
Moments earlier, heíd just seen a man place something near the vehicle.
Pamela Lynch, two felony counts of taking a financial transaction card and three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.
Lynch was arrested in April after authorites said she took a womanís purse and later rented a room in the same motel.
Untearda Ray Massey, four counts of trafficking in cocaine and Fantasia White, one count of trafficking cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
Kannapolis Police Department charged the two in May with trafficking cocaine.
Tamika Oglesby, trafficking opium or heroin and mainting a vehicle or dwelling place to keep, store and sell a controlled substance and simple possession of a scheduled VI controlled substance.
In December, she was part of the Rowan County Sheriffís Office ěNaughty List,î through which they made a number of arrests during an undercover operation.
She was also indicted in March on other drug charges.
Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.