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Eight Lee teens arrested on drug alcohol complaints

• One of those arrested in a Le County raid was preparing to deal marijuana, authorities say.

J.D. Sumner

LEESBURG — Drug agents have arrested eight Lee County teens after neighbors complained that people were drinking and smoking marijuana on the 100 block of Creek Drive, authorities said.

John Goza, 19, Demario Profit, 19, Patrick Jones, 19, Trevin Whaley, 18, Brittany Allen, 18, Chase Allen, 18 and Mary Allen, 18, were charged Tuesday with underage possession and consumption of alcohol after neighbors in the Glendale subdivision called police.

Also arrested was 18-year-old Julian Reever, who deputies say was preparing marijuana to sell to others at the party. He’s been charged with felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of tools to commit the crime.

“The drinking, we run into that a lot,” Sheriff Harold Breeden said. “But the marijuana really upset me. We hope we’re sending the message that you can’t come into Lee County and party like this.”

Breeden said he was sympathetic to young people making poor decisions, but that teens sometimes don’t realize that a felony conviction is permanent.

“All but that one dealer was charged with a misdemeanor and won’t stick on their records,” Breeden said. “The kids don’t realize that one felony can ruin your life.”

Police officials praised the vigilance of neighborhood members who they say are making deliberate efforts to keep their streets safe.

The arrest is the latest in a series of drug arrests made in Lee County in the last several months.

On April 30, deputies nabbed a suspected drug dealer and his distributor while conducting surveillance at a Leesburg home.

Deputies arrested Curtis Thompson and Maceo Littleton after agents witnessed the two conducting a drug deal near a Leesburg Pre-K center, Breeden said at the time.

Less than a week earlier, a Calhoun County man was jailed by Lee County deputies after they said he was selling drugs from a construction site near an elementary school.

Terral Bernard “T-bone” Ross, 33, of Morgan, was arrested April 25 after deputies received a tip that he may be selling cocaine and marijuana from a worksite where he was laying concrete, Lee County Deputy Col. Duane Sapp said.

“Narcotics agents with the sheriff’s office set up surveillance and ultimately contacted Terral Bernard Ross,” Sapp wrote in a media release. “Ross had in his possession over 3 grams of cocaine packaged to sell and approx. 1/4 ounce of marijuana.”

During the same incident, deputies also arrested Willie Harris, 34, of Albany, who was found with less than an ounce of marijuana and had warrants for his arrest in another county, Sapp said.

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