NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
December 15, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

SEARCH WARRANT NETS DRUGS AND CASH

      The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force has placed another drug dealer behind bars.

       26-year old Oran Eduard Dixon is charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of MDMA with intent to sell, possession of more than twenty grams of marijuana with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia.

       Investigators executed a search warrant Thursday night at Dixon 's apartment, Unit E-304 at 209 West Miracle Strip Parkway in Mary Esther, as well as inside his vehicle, a Budget rental Chevrolet Impala.

       As a result of the search warrant deputies confiscated a total of 116 grams of marijuana along with twelve grams of cocaine, 4.5 tablets of MDMA and $17,232.00 in cash. The street value of the drugs seized is estimated at nearly $6000.00  

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