NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
July 10, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

DRUG OPERATION

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Problem Oriented Policing Unit – or POP Squad – has been busy coordinating and operating undercover drug buys in an effort to crackdown on street sales of drugs in the Hetherington and Sylvania Heights areas.

     A covert operation took place during the months of March, April, and May. Deputies are now in the process of serving the thirty-two warrants that were signed for suspects who sold illegal substances or counterfeit illegal substances to undercover law enforcement cooperatives.

THOSE ARRESTED SO FAR ARE:  

 44-year old Cloudy Payne, 211 Ajax Dr., FWB – two counts sale of narcotics, one resisting arrest.

28-year old Abraham Evans, 602 Newcastle Dr., FWB – one count sale of narcotics.

26-year old Randolph Ford, Jr, 110 Cowrie Ave., FWB – two counts sale of narcotics

18-year old Timothy Knox, 18 Laurie Dr., FWB – two counts sale of narcotics.

48-year old Keith Foreman, 102 King St., FWB –  three counts sale of narcotics.

48-year old Demetrius Cobb, 307 Sims St., FWB – two counts sale of narcotics.

 51-year old Bryant Durham, 310 Sims St., FWB – three counts sale of narcotics.

33-year old Hillary Gryzboski, 213 Bay St., FWB – possession of paraphernalia. 

29-year old LaShun Parish, 116 DeVille Dr., Mary Esther – one count sale of narcotics, one count possession of marijuana, one count violation of probation. 

47-year old Tommy Cottrell, 510 Union St, FWB – two counts sale of narcotics.

THOSE WITH ACTIVE WARRANTS AT THIS TIME ARE: 

36-year old Sherry Mitchell, 300 Kazmira Ct. Niceville – possession of narcotics.

22-year old Bradley Benifiel, 124 Meadowbrook Ct. Niceville – possession of marijuana.

31-year old Cameron Crowder, 612 Cypress St. #B, Mary Esther – possession with intent to distribute and failure to appear.

43-year old Willie Griswould, 24 Poulton Dr., FWB – sale of narcotics. 

39-year old Frederick McCoy, 516 Earl St., FWB – sale of narcotics.

20-year old Alonzo Borum III, 521 Circle Dr., FWB – sale of narcotics.

38-year old Jonathan McNabb, 110 Shirley Dr., FWB – two counts sale of narcotics and one count contempt of court.

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