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Show Six Months Of Work Bring Davis Dope Bust should be considered dangerous. dan-gerous. Chief Deputy Harry Jones said the largest single possession posses-sion was about $20,000 worth of hashish. By GARY R. BLODGETT FARMINGTON Six months of intensive investigation investiga-tion and stakeouts resulted in the arrest of more than two dozen "big time" drug users and pushers, many of whom had been operating throughout Davis County. A POLICE dragnet of Davis County sheriff deputies working work-ing with city police and state narcotics officials made the arrests late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Sheriff Brant Johnson said the arrests will result in about 84 or more charges against persons per-sons believed to be involved in drug traffic in Davis, Weber and Salt Lake counties. L'NLIKE AN earlier drug raid in Davis County, most of those arrested last week were adults and were classified as "fairly big dealers" and most were charged with distribution of drugs primarily marijuana and cocaine. Law officers from throughout through-out the county gathered for a briefing about 4:30a.m. Thurs day and a short time later they dispersed to all corners of the county and began making arrests. SHERIFF JOHNSON said most of those arrested were surprised when apprehended by lawmen, but admitted that a few may have "gotten word" of the raid and managed to escape the mammoth drag net. He said the success of the raid should "put drug traffic underground for a while." But he added that drug traffic will probably be out in the open again within a few months. NEARLY $50,000 worth of drugs were confiscated during the six months of investigation. investiga-tion. Additional drugs, mostly marijuana, was recovered during dur-ing the raid, but no dollar value has been placed on this amount. "It is important that we have these kind of raids to make the public aware that there is a serious drug probem in Davis County." he said. THE SHERIFF noted that profiles of the suspects were given to each officer to alert them of the type of person involved in-volved and whether or not he |