Greensboro, Jan. 4—Three federal anti-narcotic agents today revealed the seizure here during the week-end of $17,000 worth of narcotics, the largest such seizure ever made here, and the arrest of a negro merchant, A.T. Gilmer, on South Ashe Street, charged with violation of the anti-narcotic law. He was given a hearing before United States Commissioner W.S. Lyon and bound over to the next term of federal district court here, under bond of $1,500.
The stuff came through the mail, according to Federal Agent Rocchiccioli today, who was assisted in working up the case by Messrs. Williams and Moguin, also in the federal service. The superintendent of mails, Burg Eldridge, assisted them. The package was not addressed to Gilmer, but to another person, and the arrest was made when the carrier made the delivery to the store of Gilmer.
The three agents are working hard here, under cover, to clean up the territory in this section, in a radius of 100 miles or more. Further arrests are expected.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1926
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