Rock Hill man going to prison for selling meth after cops found drugs in his trash
A Rock Hill man who dealt meth from his $330,000 home in an upscale Rock Hill neighborhood has been sentenced to 13 years in a South Carolina prison.
Hardy Marvin Lanier, 44, pleaded guilty Thursday in York County criminal court to two counts of trafficking methamphetamine, court records show. The 13-year sentence was negotiated between prosecutors and Lanier, said Aaron Hayes, 16th Circuit assistant solicitor.
Lanier was arrested twice in 2018 at his Cavendale Drive home in the Wedgewood neighborhood by York County drug agents, Hayes said. Meth was found first in the house, then found in Lanier’s garbage bin, Hayes said.
In the first arrest in August 2018, Lanier had about 12 ounces of meth, drug agents.
Lanier was arrested the second time in December 2018 for about an ounce meth while free on bond from the first charge, police said. Drug agents found meth in his trash bin in the second arrest, testimony showed.
Lanier had been held without bail in jail since the second arrest in December 2018.
Methamphetamine is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system, according to the U.S. government National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Earlier charges against Lanier alleging he was selling an illegal date rape drug were dismissed, Hayes said, after lab testing showed the substance was not an illicit drug.
