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Wlaf1450Three arrested on drug charges at a Jellico apartment
JELLICO, TN (WLAF)- Investigators with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office made their first drug bust in five months. The arrests came from the execution of a narcotics search warrant, according to the CCSO Facebook page. On Wednesday morning, Det.Sgt. Franklin Ayers, along with other officers, executed a narcotics search warrant at an apartment at 226 5th Street at Jellico.
During the roughly 90-minute visit to apartment 501, beginning at 9:15am, investigators allegedly located multiple illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia from the kitchen to one suspect’s pants pocket to a bedroom to the bathroom. Hypodermic needles, glass smoking pipes and working scales were discovered along with Gabapentine, mushrooms, suspected marijuana and meth and some random other pills.
Three suspects were arrested and transported to the Campbell County Jail, Danny Lee Cox, Heather Moore and Alvin Walters. All three remain housed in the county jail this morning without bond.
Heading into an April 7 court appearance, Cox, 59, and Moore, 42, of the referenced apartment, and Walters, 44, of 199 Plant Lane-Jellico are all facing charges of schedule VI simple possession, possession-manufacture-deliver schedule II (meth), manufacture-deliver-sell schedule I, schedule V possession with intent, possession-manufacture-deliver schedule II drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, and manufacture-deliver-sell schedule I.
During the 2025 calendar year, investigators with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department executed only seven narcotics search warrants netting 11 arrests and conducted four traffic stops that resulted in five arrests for drugs, based on releases posted to the sheriff’s office Facebook page.
(WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-03/27/2026-6AM-PHOTOS CCSO)
The FIRST in Five Months
WOW sounds like they are Proud 🤣
Illegal drugs all over Campbell county and they only managed to make one bust in six months! Unbelievable! Maybe they should check out all the activities in downtown lafollette!
They could have cc that many each and every day and still not put a dent in it. That is why We the people are ready for a new tough on drugs Sheriff
If this is first drug bust since Oct. Something wrong at sheriff’s office with investigators.
Hahahaha 🤣 they need to step it up that’s y I moved nothing but drugs to do that’s y most the kids get on drugs
Ive tried for the last 2 years for them to help me find my daughter in Jellico Tn. Said they only had 2 cops on duty. I have called them on several occasions and have never Gordon any help. You guys need to vote the ones in there out and start fresh with a new crew. I still haven’t seen my daughter.