Rochester Hills— Two men, one a suspected drug dealer, were charged over the weekend, including one in which a tip revealed one suspect’s plan to rob a rival.Brandon Scott Knight, 26, of Rochester Hills was charged Sunday with delivery and manufacture of marijuana, assault with a weapon and two counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was ordered held in Oakland County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bond.
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Knight was arrested Thursday night at a Speedway gas station on Crooks Road by Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies who had been tipped that he had a military duffel bag containing drugs and was last seen walking from the nearby Concord Inn Hotel.
The tipster told deputies Knight was “preparing to rob a rival drug dealer who owed him a large sum of money,” according to a department incident report.
Knight was not found with drugs. In a nearby bush, a K-9 tracking dog located a duffel bag containing $1,251 in cash, two masks, a cellphone, gold jewelry, a Bible, a digital scale, 125 grams of marijuana and more than 200 pills of various prescription painkillers including Vicodin, Oxycontin, Xanax and Adderall. A 9mm semi-auto handgun was found under a vehicle, deputies said.
In a separate incident, Kevin Matirne, 49, of Pontiac was arraigned Saturday on being a felon in possession of a handgun, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer in an incident Thursday in Pontiac. Matirne, who was ordered held in Oakland County Jail in lieu of $250,000 cash bond.
About 6 a.m. on Thursday members of the county Narcotics Enforcement Team executed a search warrant in the 600 block of Rosewood Place in Pontiac, where they alleged Matirne ran from a bedroom to the kitchen with a large amount of cocaine.
According to NET officers, Matirne jumped out the kitchen window and ran through a backyard, allegedly throwing his cocaine and running west across Martin Luther King Boulevard.
After a short foot chase, Matirne was tackled by deputies and placed under arrest. Deputies suffered minor injuries in an alleged scuffle with Matirne.
During a subsequent search of his residence, officers seized 355.8 grams of crack cocaine with a street value of $35,000; $53 cash; a loaded .22 caliber handgun; .22 caliber ammunition and three cellphones. Matirne was convicted of armed robbery in 1989; drug possession in 1993; and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder in 1996.
