Geneva County Sheriff's investigators recently arrested a dozen people as part of an ongoing undercover drug distribution investigation dubbed "Operation Who's Next."
Sheriff Greg Ward said investigators with the Geneva County Sheriff's Drug Task Force made the arrests as part of an eight-month investigation into the distribution of crack cocaine in the areas around Hartford, Slocomb and Malvern.
"We mainly concentrated on those areas, and that was based on complaints we'd received from residents in those areas," Ward said. "People are getting caught up in this crack cocaine and crystal meth. It's ruining a lot lives."
Of those arrested, Ward said a Hartford man, 29-year-old Antonio Leon Bruce, was also charged with trafficking cocaine. He said investigators found a trafficking amount of cocaine when they recently arrested Bruce on a three-count felony drug distribution indictment. He said Bruce was taken to the Geneva County Jail and held on $800,000 bail.
Ward said investigators have also charged another Hartford man, 36-year-old Robert Lee Daniels, with a three-count felony drug distribution indictment. Court Records indicate Daniels is being held in the Houston County Jail on a pending cocaine trafficking charge filed by Dothan police.
Ward said investigators also charged Gary Lett, 36, of Hartford with four counts of drug distribution. Lett is being held at the Geneva County Jail on an $800,000 bail.
He said investigators charged Julie Denise Young, 27, of Slocomb, with three felony counts of drug distribution.
Ward said deputies also charged the following the four people with two felony counts of drug distribution: Darryl Anderson, 46, of Hartford, Tony Jerome Mobley Jr., 33, of Slocomb, and Darmain Hunter, 24, of Hartford. He said they were each taken to the Geneva County Jail on $400,000 bail.
Ward also said investigators arrested the following four people on a single drug distribution charge: Donald Ray Daniels, 35, of Slocomb, Targus Daum, 54, of Slocomb, Sean Michael Golson, 23, of Hartford, Armando Cortez, 32, of Hartford, and Kimberly Ann Moon, 39, of Hartford. He said they're each being held at the Geneva County Jail on $200,000 bail.
Ward said agents with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) have already taken Cortez into custody.
If convicted of distribution of a controlled substance each of the 12 people face two to 20 years in prison for the class B felony crime.
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