UPDATE: Operation Shield initiates 37 felony drug investigations

On Nov. 4 and 5 the fol­low­ing agen­cies joined forces and par­tic­i­pated in the Multi-Agency Patrol Sat­u­ra­tion (MAPS) in Craw­ford County also known as Oper­a­tion Shield: Galion PD, Bucyrus PD, Crest­line PD, Ohio High­way Patrol, the Craw­ford County Sheriff’s Office, the Mar­ion County Sheriff’s Office, Wyan­dot County Sheriff’s Office, the Adult Patrol Author­ity, METRICH and MARMET drug task force and the prosecutor’s office.

The pro­gram is designed to tar­get high-risk areas for drug traf­fick­ing or other ille­gal activ­i­ties, and have a pos­i­tive impact on the com­mu­nity. The infor­ma­tion used was derived from intel­li­gence that was gath­ered prior to and dur­ing the oper­a­tion. The pro­gram ran from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Nov. 4 and 5. The pro­gram was suc­cess­ful in that there were over 400 vehi­cles stopped for var­i­ous vio­la­tions and warn­ings. In some vehi­cles stopped there was heroin, pills, mar­i­juana and drug para­pher­na­lia that was seized.

Sev­eral searches were con­ducted net­ting $20,000 in cash, numer­ous firearms were seized along with heroin, syringes and other drug para­pher­na­lia items. A total of 19 per­sons were arrested and booked into the Craw­ford County Jail.

Of the 586 traf­fic stops there were 5 OVI arrests, 13 dri­ving under sus­pen­sion, 371 warn­ings and 184 defect noti­fi­ca­tions issued. In addi­tion to the traf­fic enforce­ment all involved agen­cies reported the ini­ti­a­tion of 37 drug inves­ti­ga­tions, all for felony drug offenses.

OSP stopped a vehi­cle and recov­ered a set of stolen plates. The sus­pect was charged with receiv­ing stolen prop­erty by BPD.

OSP stopped and vehi­cle and a K-9 was called in. The dog made a pos­i­tive indi­ca­tion on the vehi­cle. A prob­a­ble cause searched revealed a Sub­ox­one tablet in the vehi­cle. The sus­pect admit­ted to using and abus­ing the med­ica­tion and was a known heroin user.

OSP stopped a vehi­cle for a traf­fic violation,the mother along with her 17 year old daugh­ter was in the vehi­cle. The dri­ver was arrested for OVI. Dur­ing a prob­a­ble cause search a cel­lo­phane pack­age con­tain­ing 29 mis­cel­la­neous pills were found in the suspect’s purse. The pills were iden­ti­fied as a Sched­ule IV sub­stance. She was charged with OVI, endan­ger­ing chil­dren and pos­sess­ing drugs.

A search war­rant was Exe­cuted at 19:20 hours on Nov. 4 in the 2400 block of North Main St., North Robin­son by the Craw­ford County Sheriff’s Office, Met­rich and Marmett Drug Task­force. Travis Ratliff occu­pied the res­i­dence. 6 weapons were seized along with the fol­low­ing items, Approx­i­mately $10,000.00 in cash, processed mar­i­juana and 14 mar­i­juana plants were seized from and elab­o­rate grow room that was dis­man­tled. Total weight was 7.2 lbs. Travis Ratliff, 30, was arrested and held pend­ing fil­ing charges.

APA con­ducted a home visit at in the 500 block of South Boston with assis­tance from Galion PD and Craw­ford County Deputies. On enter­ing the res­i­dence the sub­ject admit­ted to using heroin that night in this res­i­dence. She also admit­ted own­er­ship of all syringes found in a black pouch in the bath­room. She turned over a syringe that was con­cealed in her under­gar­ment. On inspect­ing her arms numer­ous nee­dle tracks were revealed. She admit­ted to being on paper in Mar­ion County. $11,000.00 in cash was removed from a bed­room. Eliz­a­beth Brock was arrested for pos­ses­sion of drugs (heroin) and pos­ses­sion of drug abuse instru­ments. Brock was trans­ported to the CCSO.

APA made a visit to the 800 block of South San­dusky, Bucyrus. The sub­ject admit­ted that she lived at the res­i­dence with the owner. She had cloth­ing and prop­erty at the apart­ment. Dur­ing this inspec­tion of the apart­ment by APA a bindle of heroin was found in the freezer. The sub­ject vol­un­tar­ily showed offi­cers her arms and she had sev­eral fresh nee­dle tracks on both arms. She admit­ted to using mar­i­juana and heroin. The sub­ject has prior con­vic­tions for traf­fick­ing in heroin in Craw­ford County.

Brook­lyn Gilliland was charged with pos­ses­sion of heroin. She was arrested and trans­ported to CCSO.

APA Home visit assisted by GPD and CCSO on the 500 block of E. Church Street. Both res­i­dents admit­ted to own­er­ship of syringes, spoon, empty bal­lons and heroin recov­ered. Both admit­ted to using heroin just prior to the offi­cers’ arrival. Mindy Prosser and Nick Pow­ell were charged with pos­ses­sion of herion, pos­ses­sion of drug abuse instru­ments (syringes) and pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia (metal spoon and col­ored bal­lons). APA Holder trans­ported to CCSO

Law enforce­ment offi­cials received a lot of good com­ments dur­ing and after the activ­ity was com­pleted. All of the agen­cies involved felt that the exer­cise Craw­ford County Shield was worth the time com­mit­ted to the mission.

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