Major Drug Busts In South Arkansas
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The commander of the Tri-County Drug Task
Force based at Pine Bluff says his agents have been busy this week.
Lieutenant John McNeil, who heads up the group, issued a news
release today outlining raids and arrests in all three counties
served by the task force -- Jefferson, Lincoln and Arkansas.
On Sunday, the agents executed a search warrant at a home south
of the downtown area and confiscated just under a pound of a white
powdery substance believed to be cocaine. The same day, McNeil
said, the task force helped Pine Bluff police with a
methamphetamine lab in a house. The lab was discovered because of
an explosion at the house.
McNeil said that, on Monday, his agents worked with Lincoln
County deputies in raiding a home just outside Star City. He said
the agents found a white substance believed to be meth, as well as
several firearms.
Yesterday, the task force helped Arkansas County deputies raid a
home in Gillette. McNeil said the raid turned up a meth lab, a
quantity of meth, other drug paraphernalia, and a gun. McNeil said
a pit bull at the home bit a task force agent and was shot to
death.
McNeil said the raids resulted in the arrests of seven people.
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