LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Federal investigators arrested 26 people Tuesday in Louisville as part of a large-scale drug investigation.
According to a news release Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Justice, the arrests were just a portion of the 34 Louisville and southern Indiana residents charged by a federal grand jury with various drug and gun offenses.
Louisville Metro Police Department spokesman Sgt. Matt Sanders confirmed Tuesday morning that LMPD officers were assisting the FBI with "a large operation within Jefferson County." The investigation involved areas within the Portland neighborhood, as well as areas near Dixie Highway in LMPD's 3rd Division.
The FBI said the raids were a part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
Portland neighborhood residents said agents arrived just after 6 a.m. and brought boxes, a safe and much more out of a home. One person said the whole operation caught them by surprise.
"We speak all the time," Marvin Travis, who lives across the street from one of the homes raided, said of its occupants. "They're playing with the dogs. I never would've thought it. Never would've thought it. If you'd have picked out a house on this block where that type of stuff is going on, I'd have picked the next block. You can never tell."
Below is a list of all those arrested and their charges:
Thomas Gunter
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Ten counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Desmond Allen
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Byron Mayes
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One countof distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
David Carter
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Four counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Lauren Baum
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One countof distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Brandon Traughber
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Two counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Jason Hill
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One countof distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Adrian Hamilton
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Two counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Antonio O'Neal
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Five counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Randall Dilley
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Four counts of distributing a fentanyl mixture
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine
Keith Dewayne Settles
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Three counts of distributing a fentanyl mixture
Coy Tucker
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Six counts of distributing a fentanyl mixture
- One count of distributing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine
Jaiquinton Wordlaw
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- One count of distributing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine
Heather Boling
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Four counts of distributing a fentanyl mixture
- Two counts of distributing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Dontray Bard
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- One count of distributing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine
Todd Allgood
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- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Six counts of distributing a fentanyl mixture
Imain Tennyson
- One count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
- Two counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Dennis Rice
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Tomerriel Macklin Jr.
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Damon Fortney
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Six counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Dominique Kinnard
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Curnesha Smith
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Seven counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Derrik Goodman
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Bruce Boerner
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Four counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Dawn Burns
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Five counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Kendall Shaw
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- Two counts of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Jaron Collier
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Two counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Ryan Mitchem
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Saentay Sheard
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Stephen Piercy
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Four counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- Three counts of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Sean Underwood
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Christopher Shanahan
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Jason Cheser
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- Three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
Lacy Elliot
- One count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
- One count of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
- One count of possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
Bard, Mayes, Shaw, Wordlaw, Kinnard, Boerner, Shanahan and Hill are still on the loose. If convicted, all 34 defendants face anywhere from a minimum sentence of 10-35 years in prison to a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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