SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Sarasota Police Department along with other law enforcement units arrested 95 people as part of Operation SURGE, a focus on targeting those police say are involved in drug and firearm sales.
Police say a total of 109 people were involved in the illegal possession or sale of firearms and/or illegal narcotics between January 2019 and September 2019 during Operation SURGE.
Police say that 108 of those involved have a combined 2,561 previous charges, resulting into 687 felony convictions, and 26 of these people had 10 or more prior felony convictions each.
Officers arrested 95 of the 109, one of which was given a deferred prosecution deal for successfully completing a Drug Market Intervention program and another six of which have been indicted by Grand Jury and will be prosecuted in the federal system.
According to police, they are still looking for 11 individuals, including:
- 46-year-old J. Oliver Fort
- 56-year-old Robert Hicks
- 33-year-old Bobby Hudson
- 28-year-old Reshond Keno
- 29-year-old Tammy Lilley
- 38-year-old Renardo McCray
- 57-year-old Susan Rice
- 41-year-old Barbara Schnurr
- 21-year-old Natron Sellers
- 27-year-old Jaron Sheppard
- 27-year-old DeMario Thomas
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