The operation started at 5 a.m. in Franklinton, moved to Bogalusa at about 9 a.m. and continued until 3 p.m.
By the time it ended, 15 suspects had been apprehended and taken to the Washington Parish Jail. And case detectives still had nine people to locate and bring into custody.
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The first target group included alleged street-level and mid-level drug dealers.
On Tuesday, about 30 officers and three K-9 teams from the WPSO, Louisiana State Police Troop L, Probation and Parole, Rayburn Correctional Center, Franklinton Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Office of Community Services, who were assisted logistically by the Louisiana National Guard, divided up and took 24 search and arrest warrants to the streets.
The charges on the arrest warrants ranged from distribution of marijuana to distribution of cocaine, heroin and prescription drugs. Some of the people who were picked up had two prior convictions and are potential candidates for the “three times, you’re out” program, Lyons said.
The suspects were all taken in without incident. Crowe said the operation got some problem-makers off the streets.
“From what I can tell, these are some of the worst ones,” he said. “One of our biggest problems is drugs are everywhere. And it takes time to put the stuff together. In this operation, we were working on some dealers and it blossomed from there. We couldn’t stop what we were doing here to get the others. So we’re working on the others now, but we’ll round these up first. We have to find room in the jail.”
The parish has very limited space for prisoners, Lyons said.
“The only reason we stopped at this point is to make it manageable for the jail,” he said. “Our warden works with us. He ships people off to make room. But we have to make special arrangements to have enough space. That’s the hold-up. The narcotics detectives don’t ever stop. It’s never ending. We could do this every few weeks. The only reason we stopped at 24 was we just don’t have the space.”
But Crowe said the WPSO is doing what it can to increase public safety, and it is not hesitant to accept the assistance of others to help get the work done.
The State Police are happy to help, said LSP Trooper Louis Calato.
“This operation just goes to show you that together we will make a difference,” he said. “We want the citizens to know we’re all out here and we’re going to clean up the streets. At the end of the day, it’s our job to make Washington Parish as safe as it can be for its citizens.”
Comments
Lady A wrote on Oct 7, 2008 6:26 PM:
But who am I? "
retired bogalusian wrote on Oct 7, 2008 5:30 PM:
TB wrote on Oct 5, 2008 4:52 PM:
nicknamed De`MONEY he is a well known
drug pusher/dealer ,and everyone knows he buys alot of stolen goods ,or trades
his drugs for goods ,thats the ones they need to target to get Bogalusa cleaned up,until then they`ll have a constant battle ,is this so hard to figure out?? "
another nshorenative wrote on Oct 5, 2008 5:17 AM:
bornnraisedhere wrote on Oct 5, 2008 1:52 AM:
ICU. wrote on Oct 4, 2008 7:41 PM:
WHATABOUT wrote on Oct 3, 2008 4:40 PM:
bogalusian wrote on Oct 3, 2008 4:18 PM:
how do we know that it is true???
no names... no locations of arrests... "
bogalusian wrote on Oct 3, 2008 4:16 PM:
how do we know that it is true???
no names no origin of arrests... "
NOW YOU KNOW wrote on Oct 3, 2008 11:58 AM:
bogalusan wrote on Oct 3, 2008 6:14 AM:
And Daily News, please print a list of the arrestees with their names. It's public record. "
origfromBog wrote on Oct 2, 2008 9:12 PM:
nshorenative wrote on Oct 2, 2008 11:06 AM: