On Monday evening, March 3, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office reported that on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, at just after 3:30 p.m., deputies executed a search warrant for a narcotics violation at 7986 Lester Road in Stokesdale. It turns out they found quite a bounty of all sorts of drugs and even a military-grade smoke grenade.
As a result of the investigation, 35-year-old Chase Stephens, a Stokesdale resident, was arrested and charged with a wide range of crimes.
During the search, deputies discovered and seized:
- 79.9 grams of crack cocaine
- 33.7 grams of fentanyl
- 18.2 grams of cocaine
- 1.4 grams of crystal meth
- 109.9 grams of synthetic mushrooms
- 1.7 grams of marijuana
- $1,529 in cash
- 1 Military-grade smoke grenade
- Multiple items of drug paraphernalia
Here are the charges:
Felony Trafficking in Cocaine
(2 counts) Felony Trafficking, Opium or Heroin
Felony Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell, or Distribute Methamphetamine
Felony Possession with Intent to Manufacture, Sell, or Distribute Marijuana
Felony Maintain Vehicle/Dwelling for Controlled Substance
Felony Possession of a Weapon of Mass Death and Destruction
Misdemeanor Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
He’s currently being held in the Guilford County Detention Center in downtown Greensboro under a $500,000 secured bond.
While smoke grenades are not generally meant to be deadly, they can be.
This is the second big drug bust in the area in a month. In February, the Greensboro Police Department and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office made a big-time drug arrest of a middle-aged man speeding along I-40 who was allegedly in possession of about $1.25 million worth amount of cocaine.
The perpetrator was said to be driving at over 100 miles per hour, smoking weed, with blocks of cocaine sitting clearly visible on the back seat. He was on a stretch of I-40 East in a Florida-registered SUV. According to a complaint filed in federal court, a Guilford County Sheriff’s deputy pulled the man near the Mount Hope Church Road exit where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour.
As one commenter on that story wrote, “One crime at a time dummy.”
You can’t fix stupid!
So a military smoke grenade is a “weapon of mass destruction.” Wow. A little over the top, huh?
I have a tendency to agree with your comment on smoke grenades, I can tell you we used to modify them to do some pretty awesome things over and above what they were designed to do. An example is adding CS powder to them. People would think ‘oh, it’s just smoke’ until they went through it. And that applied to the various colored smoke as well. We also used to make our own launchers using an expended LAW tube and a grenade simulator. Always got great range on those, lol.
my weapon: ‘i fart everyone dies!’ always ready ! never malfunctions !
This guy looks like he was testing the products himself.
Quality control is a good marketing strategy.
Refer to above story. Skip and Sheriff Rogers can get him drug supplies on the taxpayers dime to pass out to his customers so they can take the drugs safer.
funny, ain’t it ? but i still like the option of going to vegas, mardi gras, amsterdam etc. where vice is the attraction & it stays THERE (their). ‘disney’ is the ‘family’ variation. southern baptists recognize this ‘behavior’ & the only reason i can respect them . . . briefly.
Find those he was dealing and if anyone died.. Charge him with murder. DA and judges need to put him away for as long as the law allows.
Scum costing lives hurting families for the rest of their lives along with huge tax payer spends.
Now is the time to get this guy and other drug dealers attentions, show him there are consequences for your actions and we aren’t going to put up with this crap anymore. Don’t let this guy back on the streets and keep killing our youth and other folks. Show NO MERCY !!!!
SUV with Florida tags, strokin’ along at 100 mile per hour on the interstate… what if he was just a sacrificial decoy while the non-descript “mom” minivan with a half ton of drugs just slides by while Delbert Dumbbutt, who in a drug addled stupor thought it’d be cool to play cocaine cowboy, is being frisked and hooked up !
I dream of the day when all conspiracy theorists, no matter what race, get tarred and feathered. STH up.