Man charged with cocaine trafficking

A Beaufort man has been arrested on charges of cocaine trafficking following an undercover narcotics operation in Carteret County.

Brien McKeiver Taylor, 40, of Beaufort was arrested Thursday as the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and the Morehead City Police Department wrapped up an operation during which undercover narcotics agents purchased a large quantity of cocaine and crack cocaine from Taylor over a period of several months, according to the CCSO news release.

Taylor is charged with two counts each of trafficking in cocaine by possession, trafficking in cocaine by sell, trafficking in cocaine by deliver, trafficking in cocaine by manufacture, trafficking in cocaine by transport, and felony maintaining a vehicle.

He is also charged with one count each of possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver cocaine and sell and deliver cocaine.

Taylorwas placed in the Carteret County Jail under a $275,000 bond.