Arkansas drug-trafficking suspect fatally shot in N.C.

A 34-year-old North Carolina woman accused of drug trafficking in Arkansas was shot to death near her hometown this week.

Felicia Camelia Diggs was fatally wounded Tuesday evening outside a residence at a trailer park outside Fayetteville, N.C., the Cumberland County, N.C., sheriff’s office reported.

Diggs and two Fayetteville, N.C., men — Larry Donnell Everett, 31, and Deldrick Sanders, 22 — were federally indicted in Little Rock in August on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The indictment accuses the three of being involved with more than 500 grams — more than a pound — of cocaine between March 27, 2012, and Aug. 3, 2012.

The August 2012 date is the day Sanders, who is also charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was arrested after a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in Pope County, where police reported finding about 2 pounds of cocaine in the rental car he was driving. The drugs were sealed in plastic in the car’s trunk, according to news reports.

Diggs was free on her own recognizance and Sanders had been released on bond. Everett is awaiting trial in the Pulaski County jail. He was arrested in North Carolina last month then transferred to Little Rock where he made his first court appearance on Nov. 1.

The trial for all three was set for June.

According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Everett has misdemeanor convictions for resisting police and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The Fayetteville Observer reports he was one of four men accused of first-degree murder in a 2007 shooting that left a second man wounded in Fayetteville; however, the case was dismissed when the survivor recanted statements that linked Everett and the others to the killing.