Winchester drug trafficking bust targets 51

WINCHESTER After an undercover investigation that was launched nearly a year ago, Winchester police began a sweep Tuesday night targeting 51 people for drug trafficking charges.

By Wednesday evening, investigators said they had arrested 36 people, leaving 15 other arrest warrants that needed to be served.

Many of the people were arrested for allegedly trying to resell prescription medication obtained from Florida, said Captain Harvey Craycraft of the Winchester police department.

Twenty-eight were charged with trafficking an unspecified controlled substance. Investigators say the drugs being sold were painkillers, such as oxycodone, Percocet and methadone. One man was charged with trafficking cocaine, Craycraft said.

The 29 defendants were arraigned Wednesday via video from the Clark County Detention Center. Clark District Judge Earl-Ray Neal accepted not-guilty pleas for all of the defendants. Neal scheduled their preliminary hearings for Feb. 10.
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