Man found with drugs, guns and cash

Police have charged a Bahamian man with multiple felony charges after seizing marijuana, crack cocaine, firearms and thousands of dollars in cash from his home, court records show.

Federal immigration officials have also placed a detainer on the man because they think he is in this country illegally, court records show.

Police charged Jeremy Arsenio Colebrook, 20, of the 2700 block of Stewart Drive on Thursday, with one count each of possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for the sale of controlled substances, possession of a firearm by a felon and three counts of failure to appear in court, a Wake County jail spokesman said this afternoon.

Police also recovered $44,555 yesterday during a search of Colebrook’s home, according to a search warrant filed today at the Wake County Clerk of Court’s Office.

Investigators with the Raleigh Police Department’s Career Criminal Unit had been searching for Colebrook over the course of several months in order to serve him with several outstanding warrants on charges of possession with intent to sell and distribute illegal drugs, fleeing to elude arrest, resisting arrest and felony breaking and entering, court records show.

A confidential informant told police that Colebrook, also known as Jeremy Arsenio Smith, drove a black Mercedes Benz and was staying with someone on Stewart Drive, court records show.

Police followed up on the information and found a black Mercedes Benz parked beside an apartment on Stewart Drive. They saw Colebrook leave the apartment about 2 p.m. and get into a minivan owned by Excel Cab Company on Tarboro Road. Police performed a traffic stop and Colebrook was taken into custody, court records show.

During questioning by police Colebrook told them he “hustles” cocaine to take care of himself and his family and has not had a legitimate job in several years. He admitted to selling cocaine for more than a year since his release from prison to support himself and the mother of his two children. Colebrook told police he would spend at least $3,600 each day to purchase 125 grams of cocaine each day and sell it by the ounce or more to various people. Colebrook told police he stored the cash in a safe from the cocaine sales at the apartment where he lived with his girlfriend and children, court records show.

When police entered the home Thursday several objects related to drug dealing were in plain view, court records show. They included a large freezer bag of marijuana on the kitchen table, several grams of cocaine on a cabinet near the kitchen sink and a digital scale.

At the conclusion of their search police had recovered a silver 9 mm handgun, a black and silver Smith and Wesson 9 mm handgun, 16 9 mm bullets, 35 grams of marijuana, 11 grams of crack cocaine, three cell phones and a Honeywell safe, court records show.

Colebrook is a convicted felon who had been previously sentenced to six to eight months in prison after he was convicted of possession with intent to sell and distribute cocaine, court records show.

He was transported to the Wake County jail where he remains in custody in lieu of a $166,000 bail, a jail spokesman said today.