{"id":20118,"date":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20118\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","slug":"two-behind-bars-following-new-bern-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20118\/","title":{"rendered":"Two behind bars following New Bern drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Two were arrested following a drug bust at a grocery store in New Bern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday night, Craven County deputies stopped a car at Walmart on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say they seized just over one and a half ounces of fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marcello Bryant, 44, and Melony Tripp, 41, were charged with two felony counts of trafficking fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They are being held in the Craven County Jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Two were arrested following a drug bust at a grocery store in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,108,4396,4398,4397,13226,13227,13229,13230,13231,117,107,118,13228,105],"class_list":["post-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-craven-county","tag-drug","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-fentanyl-bust","tag-grocery-store","tag-marcello-bryant","tag-melony-tripp","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-north-carolina","tag-walmart","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","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=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}