Search For Missing Person Leads To Burke County Drug Bust

CONNELLY SPRINGS, NC — A Burke County man is facing multiple drug charges after investigators find methamphetamine while searching for a missing person.

Deputies say 28-year-old Cody Randolph, of Morganton, was arrested at a home on Rollins Park Drive in Connelly Springs on Sunday. Detectives say they searched the home as part of a missing person investigation and found roughly 64 grams of methamphetamine.

Multiple people were at the home at the time of the search, according to deputies, including the missing person.

Randolph is charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine, Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.