- November 16, 2024
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A 37-year-old Bunnell man was arrested on cocaine trafficking and marijuana cultivation charges June 4 after a Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and a multi-agency group of law enforcement officers served a search warrant at his home at 804 Hymon Circle in Bunnell.
The man, Tyrone Patterson, “has been responsible for the distribution of large quantities of cocaine in the Bunnell area on a regular basis,” according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are expected.
The team that searched Patterson’s home consisted of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office SWAT team and investigators from the Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Unit, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Tri-County Task Force and Bunnell Police Department, who found Patterson in possession of 47 grams of crack cocaine, three grams of powder cocaine, 29 marijuana plants and related drug paraphernalia.
“I am extremely pleased with the collaborative efforts of the FDLE Tri-County Task Force and our detectives in stopping this amount of cocaine from being distributed on our streets,” Sheriff James L. Manfre said in the news release.
Patterson was booked at the county jail on four Flagler County warrants charging him with three counts of trafficking cocaine and one count of sale of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a municipal park. He was then also charged with cultivation of marijuana, trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
Patterson, who was previously arrested in Flagler County in March 2015 and June 2014 on charges of domestic battery, domestic battery by strangulation and child abuse, is being held on $720,000 bond.
