11 arrested on drug charges - Winston-Salem Journal

YADKINVILLE —A drug investigation that lasted more than a year has resulted in the arrest of 11 people on more than 100 charges, Yadkin County Sheriff William R. Oliver said.

Law-enforcement officers executed three search warrants and searched vehicles and a motel room on Thursday, Oliver said.

The Yadkin County Sheriff's Office, along with the Yadkin Valley Drug Task Force, the Yadkinville Police Department, the East Bend Police Department and the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation worked together on the effort, known as the "Community Impact" operation.

The operation has targeted "street level" drug dealers in Yadkin County, Oliver said. Among the charges filed were charges of trafficking in cocaine and opiates and maintaining residences for selling and using illegal drugs.

Seized were two vehicles, 150 grams of marijuana, three marijuana plants, six firearms, 220 grams of crack cocaine and hundreds of prescription narcotics.

More charges are pending and some suspects have not been arrested.

Those arrested were:

—Temeeka Nicole Williams, 31, of Boonville, held under $200,000 bond and charged with 24 drug violations.

—William "Tiny Man" Jowers Jr., 34, of Boonville, held under $250,000 bond and charged with 18 offenses, including 15 drug offenses.

—Patrick "PW" Shane Williams, 41, of Yadkinville, held under $150,000 bond and charged with 11 drug offenses.

—Terry Lynn Smitherman, 41, of East Bend, held under $100,000 bond and charged with 12 drug offenses.

—Darrell Wayne Pinnix, 27, of Boonville, held under $15,000 bond and charged with four drug offenses.

—Charles Chris Beulin, 36, of Hamptonville, charged with six drug offenses.

—Anthony Brent Adams, 30, of Yadkinville, held under $20,000 bond and charged with five drug offenses.

—Ruby Owens England, 42, of East Bend, held under $5,000 bond and charged with one drug offenses.

—Hazel Mae Williams, 50, of Boonville, held under $20,000 bond and charged with three drug offenses.

—Regina Ann Williams, 59, of Yadkinville, held under $20,000 bond and charged with five drug offenses.

—Shannon McCrae Bennett, 41, of Winston-Salem, charged with three drug offenses.

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