A second raid by Catawba County deputies Thursday night netted two more suspects believed to be associated with a gang known as the Cat Town Boys.
Six hours after the STAR Team raided a home just outside Catawba where they arrested four people associated with the gang, deputies executed a second search warrant on a doublewide trailer almost 10 miles away, at Hall Dairy Road outside Claremont.
Inside they found Jacovee Howell, 21, and his mother Melanie Michelle Howell, 45, along with $9,000 in cash, three rifles, six pistols and four grams of crack cocaine, said Chief Deputy Coy Reid of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.
Howell and his mother were arrested. She was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and he was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine. Both were locked up in the Catawba County jail on $5,000 bond.
STAR Team members, deputies from the Narcotics Division and officers from the Hickory and Newton police departments assisted in the operation, Reid said.
Reid said the Howells probably had a large amount of cash and guns and a small amount of crack because they'd already sold most of their latest batch.
"I feel some of the guns had been traded for drugs," he said.
Reid estimates there are between 30 and 40 active members of the Cat Town Boys, including males and females.
He said one of the four men arrested Thursday is believed to be a member of the gang's leadership, but not the gang's top leader.
The investigation into the Cat Town Boys and their activities is ongoing, Reid said.
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