Conover Man Convicted Of Trafficking Meth

41-year-old Christopher Douglas Cook of Conover will spend six to eight years in prison after a jury found him guilty of trafficking methamphetamine. The Catawba County jury returned the guilty verdict on Wednesday, November 29th after half-an-hour of deliberations. The trial spanned three days.

The Honorable Gregory R. Hayes, Superior Court Judge from Catawba County, imposed the active prison term and assessed a pair of mandatory $50,000 fines.

The offenses occurred on June 15, 2021, when Hickory Police conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Cook. A K-9 alerted to the presence of drugs in the car and a search turned up meth and drug paraphernalia. The drugs were seized and sent to the State Crime Lab for testing, which confirmed that the substance was a trafficking amount of methamphetamine.

Story: Ralph Mangum-WHKY