RALEIGH — From Staff Reports

A 34-year-old Sampson County resident is accused of using a room at the Wake Inn Hotel on New Bern Avenue as a place from which to sell cocaine and marijuana.

Roberto Gonzalez Jr. of 388 Keenan Weeks Road in Newton Grove was charged with maintaining Room 225 as a place to keep and sell drugs, trafficking in powder and crack cocaine, possession of marijuana with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officers who arrested Gonzalez on Thursday charged that he had between 28 and 200 grams of cocaine, a range used in determining how serious a felony is involved. They said in arrest warrants that he also had 6 grams of marijuana and baggies, a scale, wrapping paper and other material that can be used in selling drugs.

His bond was set at $75,000.