NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
July 10, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
DRUG OPERATION
The Okaloosa County
Sheriffs 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:
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.
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.