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Federal warrants served to Young County residents

Fri, 08/02/2019 - 11:14 am
YCSO, GPD, DPS Narcotics division and the DEA complete methamphetamine trafficking investigation
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    Some of the methamphetamine, marijuana and paraphernalia found on Harvey Mayberry during an April 1 bust by the Graham Police Department. Mayberry was one of multiple people served with a federal warrant stemming from a joint agency investigation with GPD, YCSO, DPS narcotics and the DEA. (Contributed photo)
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Multiple Young County residents had federal warrants served against them on Monday, July 22, after the Young County Sheriff’s Office, Graham Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety Narcotics division and the Drug Enforcement Agency completed a methamphetamine trafficking investigation.

According to the YCSO, some of those arrested include Maria Villanueva, Jessica Fields, Harvey Mayberry, Jerrie Syon, Kelly King and Dakota Garza.

“Graham PD Officers initiated the investigation with the arrest of Dakota Garza (on Dec. 15, 2018,)” GPD Chief Brent Bullock wrote in a press release. “We made an additional arrest after Garza, but chose not to publish a press release because of the nature of this investigation. We contacted DPS Narcotics and the DEA and because of jurisdictional boundaries, outside of Young County, they adopted the case and went further with it.”

The chief added that when the warrants came out, Graham suspects were already in jail and the YCSO served warrants on the suspects outside the city with DPS Narcotics working as the lead agency.

None of those arrested were listed in the Young County Jail log as of press time.

Garza, 23, of Graham, was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, for delivery/manufacturing a controlled substance, penalty group 1, greater than four grams less than 200 grams, a first degree felony, and resisting arrest, search or transport, a class A misdemeanor.

Garza, who was on a dirt bike, was pulled over by GPD officer Josh Huffstedler and found with 16 grams of methamphetamine, a large sum of cash and a knife. He bonded out of the Young County Jail on Jan. 2.

Garza was arrested again on Jan. 22 for aggravated robbery which violated his community supervision agreement. In May, Garza was sentenced to 45 years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice- Institution Division. The Young County Jail log had 41 other charges listed for Garza between 2015 and 2018.

For the rest of the story, see the Saturday, Aug. 3 edition of The Graham Leader.