WAKE UP CALL: Police make drug arrests in early morning round up
Published 11:18 am Tuesday, April 5, 2016
- EARLY MORNING ARREST: Claude Quitman Ezell, 30, was arrested for the sale of methamphetimine, possession of a controlled substance and marijuana this morning, part of a round up of alleged drug offenders. The Vicksburg Police along with the U.S. Marshal Service, Warren County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and Mississippi Department of Corrections participated in the operation.
Vicksburg police arrested nine people today in an early morning operation aimed at rounding up those with outstanding felony drug warrants.
Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said “Operation Spring Forward” was a joint operation between his department and the U.S. Marshal Service, Warren County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Charges of individuals range from sale of cocaine, crystal meth, marijuana, prescription forgery/fraud and possession of a controlled substance.
“This drug enforcement is an ongoing battle and tough fight,” Armstrong said. Selling drugs for some “has become a way of life for those who do not have a job and this way they can make money, but we will stay active to enforce the drug laws with the help of our good team.”
Arrested this morning were:
• Larry Turner, 55, for sale of cocaine.
• Justin Chance Harris, 25, sale of crystal meth.
• John Travis Ross, 29, sale of crystal meth.
• Scotty Ray Weeks, 42, sale of crystal meth.
• Damion Lamone Carrol, 21, sale of marijuana.
• Benjamin Matthew Hugley, 33, sale of crystal meth, two counts.
• Laura Leigh Dormon, 29, possession of hydrocodone.
• Claude Quitman Ezell, 30, sale of meth.
• Jennifer Shay Scarber, 42, prescription forgery/fraud, five counts.
• Aimee Laine Barnett, 37, sale of crystal meth.