NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
March 2, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

FIVE ARRESTED IN OCSO DRUG RAID

  The Okaloosa County Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, Community Policing Unit, and Problem-Oriented Policing squad developed information that led to the execution of a narcotics search warrant Wednesday night at 834 Gibson Road in the Heatherington area off Racetrack Road . Investigators say their actions shut down a suspected crack house, the second such raid in that general area in the last two weeks.

    Crack cocaine, syringes, spoons, and other drug paraphernalia were found inside the home. Five individuals were arrested at the scene, including alleged ringleader 41-year old Patrick Clifton O’Neal (pictured left) of 834 Gibson Road. O’Neal is charged with maintaining a dwelling where controlled substances are illegally kept or sold - and sale of cocaine within one-thousand feet of a church.   

   Also charged with possession of cocaine and possession of paraphernalia are: 33-year old Timothy Wayne Kelly of 834 Gibson Road, 19-year old Diana Serena Rodriguez of 834 Gibson Road, and 27-year old Jennifer Lynn Forrester of 817 Overbrook Drive in Fort Walton Beach. 48-year old Shirley Ann Mann of 834 Gibson Road was charged with possession of cocaine.

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