BIG SANDY – Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Big Sandy Police Department led a multi-agency arrest round up in Benton and Henry Counties today, as a part of Operation Icebreaker, a more than year-long drug investigation targeting methamphetamine and other illicit drugs in Big Sandy.  As a result, today, 30 people were taken into custody on a variety of drug-related charges.

An undercover investigation into the sale of illicit drugs in Benton County began in August of 2019.  Monday, the Benton County Grand Jury returned indictments charging multiple people with a variety of charges.  Today, TBI Agents joined law enforcement officers with the Big Sandy Police Department, Benton County Sheriff’s Office, Camden Police Department, 24^th Judicial District Drug Task Force, Henderson County Sheriff’s Office, Henry County Sheriff’s Office, Paris Police Department, Decatur County Sheriff’s Office, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol in locating and arresting 25 of those people.  Five additional people were arrested on various other counts.

Among the individuals who were arrested and charged as a result of the indictments:

• One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy to Sell and Deliver (Methamphetamine)
• Stacy Lynn Hunter (DOB: 10/13/70), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy, one count Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Joshua Lee James (DOB: 3/9/89), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy
• Brittany Lynn Kemp (DOB: 11/16/94), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy
• Nathan Lee Page (DOB: 8/21/96), Paris: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine)
• Donald Glen Parker (DOB: 7/9/64), Big Sandy:  One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy
• Chris Shannon (DOB: 3/14/79), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy to Sell and Deliver (Methamphetamine)
• Steven Threet (DOB: 3/5/59), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy
• Thomas Brandon Vestal (DOB: 9/19/82), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy
• Randall Edward Williams (DOB: 8/8/84), Big Sandy:  One count Simple Possession, one count Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Keith Anthony Wrady (DOB: 12/13/69), Big Sandy: One count Manufacture, Delivery, Sale, Possession with Intent (Methamphetamine), one count Conspiracy

Also arrested, today:

• Kimberly M. Gann (DOB: 2/6/74), Big Sandy: One count Simple Possession of Schedule II (Methamphetamine), one count Possession of Unlawful Drug Paraphernalia
• Walter David Leon Russom (DOB: 4/16/97), Big Sandy:  One count Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Daniel Allen McMullen (DOB: 4/28/92), Big Sandy:  Benton County warrants
• Destiny Fay Scarborough (DOB: 4/21/97), Big Sandy: One count Simple Possession, one count of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Jesse James Youngblood (DOB: 6/16/93), Paris: Henry County warrants