Defendant elicits judge’s advice

Greenville County resident Nafis Agin Holt is no longer under the detention of Oconee County. But there is a pending legal matter to which he must answer in his home county. After being told that Holt had served 68 days in Oconee jail awaiting trial on drug charges, Judge Cordell Maddox placed Holt on probation. But the defendant awaits trial in Greenville on the charge of armed robbery. Yesterday Holt cleared up the criminal matters that faced him in Oconee by pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Judge Maddox was told that Holt rode in a car that was stopped by the highway patrol on I-85 in Oconee County. Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons said, at first, authorities suspected the “colorful pills” found in the car were the synthetic drug Ecstasy, but they proved to contain a quantity of methamphetamine. Maddox asked Holt how old he was. Twenty-two, came the reply. Maddox then said, “You are two young for all this stuff.”