Warner Robins man caught with ‘most dangerous substances’ will serve prison time
A Warner Robins man who possessed “nearly every illegal drug known to man with the intent to distribute” was convicted Monday, according to a news release from Houston County District Attorney Eric Edwards.
Before his trial began, Nicholas Cortez Durham, 58, pleaded guilty to multiple offenses, including trafficking and possession charges that dealt with drugs such as cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, buprenorphine, methadone and carisoprodol, according to Edwards. He also pleaded guilty to gun possession charges, which landed him a 15-year sentence, followed by 25 years of probation and a $200,000 fine.
He had three prior felony drug convictions, with two of them for possessing with the intent to distribute, before the conviction Monday, Edwards said.
The district attorney said Durham was a career trafficker “pumping some of the most dangerous substances on earth into our community,” according to the news release.
“This was a one-man pharmacy of poison operating out of a neighborhood in Warner Robins, and he did it while armed and already a convicted felon,” Edwards said.
What they found in his residence, storage unit
Durham was being investigated by the Warner Robins Police Department Narcotics Intelligence Unit in June 2024, when they learned he was selling numerous kinds of narcotics in the county, according to the news release. Investigators conducted numerous controlled buys between June and September, which led to a search warrant being executed for his residence on Kinley Ann Court and a storage unit on Russell Parkway.
The trafficker was arrested and investigators recovered 60 grams of cocaine, over 100 grams of methamphetamine, over 150 grams of fentanyl, over 16 grams of heroine, over 700 grams of marijuana, over 200 hydrocodone pills, over 800 alprazolam pills, one container of methadone, 38 buprenorphine patches, a handful of carisoprodol pills, two firearms, pill bottles with labels removed or blacked out, scales, packaging materials and $5,000 in cash, according to the news release.
