{"id":13251,"date":"2026-02-19T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:26:07","slug":"new-bern-habitual-felon-convicted-on-2023-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13251\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern habitual felon convicted on 2023 drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A New Bern habitual felon will spend more than nine years in prison after he pled guilty to drug charges from 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">District Attorney Matt Wareham sentenced D\u2019Vonta Gibbs to between 9 years and 9 months and 12 years and 9 months, and gave a $50,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prosecutors say the 33-year-old was convicted on two counts of trafficking an opioid, possession with intent to sell or deliver fentanyl, and possession with intent to sell or deliver ANPP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was back in September 2023 that state Alcohol Law Enforcement agents surveilled 2012 Opal Street for drug activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern police say they saw Gibbs drive away from the target location and pulled him over due to a suspended license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers say they noticed an odor of pot from the car, and Gibbs, who was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor, admitted to carrying drugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They seized half an ounce of marijuana and .4 ounce of ANPP\/fentanyl during a search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both the New Bern Police Department and the state Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency handled this case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A New Bern habitual felon will spend more than nine years in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[9651,104,9655,9656,9653,9652,4396,4397,9654,6826,6382,117,107,3086,118,105],"class_list":["post-13251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-9651","tag-bern","tag-convict","tag-convicted","tag-dvonta-gibbs","tag-district-attorney","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-guilty","tag-habitual-felon","tag-matt-wareham","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-new-bern-police-department","tag-north-carolina","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}