District Attorney Scott Riley announce the convictions of two Catawba County men in separate incidents.
Noah Daniel Garrett, 28, of Conover, was sentenced to serve eight to 11 years in prison following his conviction for multiple property crimes from five different counties during Catawba County Superior Court on Monday, March 2, 2026.
The Honorable Sherri W. Elliott, Superior Court Judge from Catawba County, imposed terms of the active sentence after Garrett entered a global guilty plea to crimes committed in Catawba, Avery, Mitchell, Iredell and Gaston counties that covered a period of time from October 2023 through March 2025.
Garrett entered the plea to felony obtain property by false pretense of more than $100,000, 16 counts of obtaining property by false pretense, three counts of felony conversion, two counts of felony larceny, felony conspiracy and felony possession of stolen goods.
The defendant will serve his period of incarceration in custody of the North Carolina Division of Adult Corrections. He also will be required to pay nearly $265,000 in restitution to various businesses and individuals. Some of that is joint and several with a co-defendant.
Many of the offenses involved misappropriation of heavy machinery and fraudulent attempts to resell that machinery as well as fraudulent activity toward individuals affected by Hurricane Helene.
A Hickory man will spend six to eight years in prison following his conviction for trafficking opium/heroin during Catawba County Superior Court on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
Marquez Jayshun-Jerome Ikard, 29, was given the active sentence by the Honorable Sherri W. Elliott, Superior Court Judge from Catawba County, after he entered his guilty plea.
The defendant also was assessed a mandatory fine of $500,000.
Ikard will serve his period of incarceration in custody of the North Carolina Division of Adult Corrections.
Investigation of the case started on May 10, 2024, and led to the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s residence on June 7, 2024.
During that search, numerous items were found, including pills that were deemed to be a trafficking amount of fentanyl when tested by the State Crime Lab. Ikard admitted that the items found in the home were his.
