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February 10 - February 16, 2011 Vol. 9 • No. 6 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville • Alexander Fifty Cents


Weaverville police bust businessman BlackHawks earn


By Matt Tate Weaverville police arrested the owner


of a local carpet business shortly after midnight Tuesday (Feb.8) on multiple charges, including drug and gun pos- session. Phillip Vance Harris, of Terrace Drive


in Weaverville, is charged with traffick- ing opium derivative drugs, possession of methamphetamine, possession of lorazepam, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driv- ing while impaired and carrying a con- cealed weapon. Te concealed weapon was a revolver found in his vehicle, po- lice said. Harris, 54, is the owner of Phillip


Harris Carpet Brokers. Te arrest re- port lists his employer as Carpet City in Swannanoa. Police said when they stopped Har-


ris’s vehicle on Reems Creek Road, he was in possession of 14.4 grams of oxy- codone and less than half an ounce of marijuana. Cpl. Matthew Peek and Sgt. Stacy


Wyatt of the Weaverville Police Depart- ment were responsible for the arrest. Of- ficers stopped Harris for erratic driving and driving with an expired tag. “Tis is good police work on their


part and getting these drugs off the street,” Weaverville Police Chief Greg Stephens said. Harris was placed on a $31,500 bond


at the Buncombe County Detention Center.


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