- November 18, 2024
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Law enforcement officers have charged 103 people in Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns Counties in a tri-county sweep intended to pull drugs and drug dealers off the streets before summer break.
The detective work that led up to the “Operation Safe Summer” arrests took about five months and targeted street-level dealers, according to a St. Johns County Sheriff's Office news release.
“We appreciate the opportunity to participate with this tri-county warrant sweep,” Flagler County Sheriff James L. Manfre said in the news release. “The combined efforts of all involved are fundamental to getting these criminals off our streets.”
The North Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Tri-County Task Force that conducted the sweep included members from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, Palatka Police Department, St. Augustine Beach Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The operation cost each agency involved less than $5,000, according to the news release, and drugs purchased during undercover buys included prescription
narcotics, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and marijuana.
A total of 19 of the people arrested during the warrant sweep are Flagler County residents.
Their names, according to the release, are:
Lomack Jones Bennett, a Palm Coast resident
Chad Everett Blunt, a Palm Coast resident
Jessica Susan Bomford, a Palm Coast resident
Sloane Flynn Book, a Palm Coast resident
Richard Anthony Brown, a Flagler Beach resident
Beverly Louis Diggs, a Palm Coast resident
Robert R. Frantz, a Bunnell resident
Mitchell Craig Griffin, a Bunnell resident
Lori Jayne Hays, a Bunnell resident
Cecil Hubbert, a Bunnell resident
Capers Jerome Mcclendon, a Bunnell resident
Vincent James Pacifico, a Palm Coast resident
John Rapicka, a Palm Coast Resident
Jaron Kahalil Robinson, a Palm Coast resident
Margaret Elizabeth Rockwell, a Palm Coast resident
Bruce Reno Scott, a Palm Coast resident
Kimberly Jo Scott, a Palm Coast resident
Chancey Jerome Watson, a Palm Coast resident
Wayne Keith Williams, a Bunnell resident
