{"id":8228,"date":"2026-02-16T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8228\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:45:30","slug":"new-bern-man-behind-prison-bars-on-drug-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8228\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern man behind prison bars on drug offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A New Bern man will spend over five years in prison after pleading guilty to drug offenses dating back two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gregory Franks was convicted of two counts of opioid trafficking and one count of drug paraphernalia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">D.A. Matt Wareham sentenced the 38-year-old Franks to between 5 years and 10 months and 7 years and 9 months, and gave a $50,000 fine after a two-day trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On April 29, 2023, New Bern officers conducted a traffic stop on Franks, who they say was driving without a valid license. He was on probation for attempting to traffic cocaine at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During a search, police say they found a pill in the pocket of Franks\u2019 hoodie. He told officers he had a prescription for Percocet. However, officers then found a pill bottle in the car that was prescribed to someone else and contained oxycodone instead of Percocet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After further questioning, Franks admitted to police that a relative gave him the pills and that he did not have a prescription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A New Bern man will spend over five years in prison after pleading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,6381,6382,117,107,118,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-8228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-gregory-franks","10":"tag-matt-wareham","11":"tag-nc","12":"tag-new-bern","13":"tag-north-carolina","14":"tag-witn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","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=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}