NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 17, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
OCSO POP SQUAD SHUTS
DOWN CRACK HOUSE
The Problem-Oriented
Policing Unit of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested five people
Saturday, March 15th, in connection with a raid on a crackhouse in an
unincorporated area of Fort Walton Beach.
Investigators say
the home at 216 Hickory Street, #A, was used as a known haven for the purchase
and/or consumption of narcotics. Ten people were inside the home when the POP
Squad executed a search warrant at the address on March15th. Deputies
confiscated crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and items believed to be used to
prepare or “cook” crack cocaine.
Five people were
arrested on various drug charges. They are:
·
56-year old Theodore
Anthony Johnson of 216-A Hickory Street on the charge of maintaining a place
where illegal controlled substances are kept, sold or used.
·
47-year old Anthony
Randolph Brown of 216-A Hickory Street on charges of possession of a controlled
substance within 1000 feet of a church, possession of powder cocaine,
maintaining a place where illegal controlled substances are kept, sold, or used,
- and possession of drug paraphernalia.
·
27-year old Derric
Montez Reed of 35 Ranger Street in Fort Walton Beach on charges of possession of
a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 100 feet of a church and
possession of marijuana, less than twenty grams.
·
46-year old Mary Ann
Armstrong, address unknown, on charges of possession of cocaine and possession
of drug paraphernalia.
·
And 55-year old Roy Lee
Wooten of 696 Tyner Street, apartment 21, Fort Walton Beach on a charge of
possession of drug paraphernalia.
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