WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Authorities with the Wilmington Police Department seized a Mercedes after the driver tried to get away from officers.

According to Cpl. Kevin Smith with the police department, an officer spotted the Mercedes going 61 mph in a 35 mph zone on Market Street and initiated his lights and sirens to pull over the vehicle.

Shawn Lamont Morant, 37, was driving the Mercedes and took off towards 21st Street and then on Wolcott Street, accelerating the entire time.

Smith said Morant finally pulled over at Wolcott and 20th Streets.

The officer could smell marijuana coming from the Mercedes when he approached the vehicle. According to Smith, the officer searched the vehicle and found marijuana and heroin drug paraphernalia in addition to several empty beer bottles.

Morant and his passenger, Aeisha Milton, were both arrested.

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Authorities arrested a man during a traffic stop after spotting a knife concealed in the steering column of the car.

According to police, a deputy with the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office stopped Bradley Cole Abernathy, 33, while driving in the area of Surry and Queen Streets. The deputy is familiar with drugs and prostitution in that area.

An officer with the Wilmington Police Department responded to assist the deputy and noticed the knife in the vehicle.

The officials searched Abernathy's vehicle and found ten bindles of heroin. A subsequent search of the car revealed synthetic marijuana and baggies.

Abernathy was charged for carrying a concealed weapon, PWISD heroin, possession of heroin, possession of schedule VI, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – According to officials with the Wilmington Police Department, while driving through the Houston Moore housing area  early Thursday morning, officers recognized a suspect who was on the Wilmington Housing Authority trespassing list.

As they attempted to speak with the suspect, 33-year-old Herbert Alex Bradley, Bradley threw down a plastic bag containing 10 individual bags of marijuana.