CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office extradited a woman from Pittsburgh, Pa. in connection to a drug overdose death.
Aryanna Marquise Carter, 29, of Havelock, was charged in connection to the death of Tyler Lee Hall, 22, of Newport, in April of 2021.
Hall died from methamphetamine and fentanyl toxicity. Carter was arrested May 5, 2024 in Pennsylvania on an unrelated weapon charge.
Carter is charged with selling and delivering a schedule II controlled substance and felony death by distribution. Carter was jailed in the Carteret County Detention Center under a $470,000 bond.
Beaufort, NC — Two men are now behind bars in connection with the death of a 25-year-old woman following a joint investigation, according to the Beaufort Police Department.
Officials say 26-year-old Ladavion Vontrell Manning of Morrisville and 24-year-old Kevin Crishawn Milliken of Apex are facing second-degree murder, death by distribution and the sale and delivery of Schedule II controlled substances.
Manning was taken into custody at his Morrisville home on May 2, 2025 and was also charged with sale and delivery of fentanyl. He remains jailed at the Carteret County Detention Center under a $750,000 bond.
On Tuesday, June 3 officials arrested Milliken in Chatham County. He also faces separate charges in Chatham County, including felony possession of cocaine, maintaining a vehicle or dwelling, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession of a schedule IV-controlled substance. Milliken remains in jail in Chatham County under a $1 million bond and will be transported to Carteret County for trial proceedings.
These arrests come after an investigation into the death of Riley Goolishian, who was found in her Beaufort home back on May 26 of 2024 unresponsive. Authorities say she died a day later at Carteret Health Care in Morehead City. It was confirmed her cause of death was fentanyl and cocaine toxicity through autopsy and toxicology findings.
The joint investigation determined that both Manning and Milliken sold fentanyl and cocaine to Goolishian the day prior to her being found unresponsive.
The investigating agencies include the Beaufort Police Department, Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and the NC SBI.
Beaufort Police Chief Paul Burdette stated, “This case represents a coordinated effort by multiple law enforcement agencies to bring justice in the face of a heartbreaking loss. We remain committed to pursuing those who distribute dangerous and illegal substances in our communities.”
Police charge Matthew Porter with his brother’s death after giving him fentanyl.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A man was charged with the death of his brother on Wednesday after police said he gave him fentanyl.
Police arrested Matthew Glenn Porter, 37, in relation to an overdose investigation into the death of his brother Jeffrey Allen Porter, 38.
Jefferey was found unresponsive in his home back in Sept. 2024. He was taken to the hospital where he later died, according to police. The Medical Examiner ruled he died by overdose.
In an arrest warrant obtained by WFMY News 2, police said Matthew gave Jeffery the fentanyl.
Matthew was charged with one count of death by distribution and has a $200,000 bond.
ROCKINGHAM — Investigators have charged a woman in a late 2024 overdose death.
Sarah Alexis McCumbee, 27, was arrested late Thursday on charges of death by distribution and selling or delivering a Schedule II controlled substance.
McCumbee is accused of delivering an unspecified quantity of fentanyl to Sean McDonald on or around Nov. 14, 2024. The ingestion of the fentanyl, according to the arrest warrant, “proximately caused” McDonald’s death.
The warrant, taken out by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, was issued April 21 and McCumbee was arrested April 24.
She is being held without bond in the Richmond County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court May 8.
North Carolina’s death by distribution law was signed into law in 2019, with support from both of the county’s legislative representatives in the General Assembly at the time.
The RCSO charged Regina Collins with death by distribution in January of 2020. State records show Collins was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in August of that year and she served seven months in prison. Her parole ended Feb. 14, 2022.
In 2022, the Hamlet Police Department issued a BOLO for a suspect in a death by distribution case. However, police told the RO on Friday that the charge was dismissed by the district attorney’s office based on further investigation.
Earlier this week, a woman in Greensboro was convicted of death by distribution and other drug charges from a 2022 case.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
