Officers grab lunch, make drug bust

Published 12:04 am Sunday, April 8, 2018

Normally, narcotics officers go looking for drug deals. On Friday, however, a drug deal found them.

While eating lunch at Shoney’s on Friday, three Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputies say they witnessed a drug deal right outside the restaurant’s window.

Capt. Keith Miles said he and two other Special Operation Group deputies approached the woman who allegedly had the drugs and the two men who had received them when they walked inside the restaurant after exchanging money for a bottle of pills.

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“We asked them to step into the hallway so we could talk to them in private, but they became agitated,” Miles said.

The two men who allegedly received the drugs, Tyrell White and his brother, Tavonte Denzell White, began “pushing and shoving” the deputies, they reported, causing Miles to call for backup.

Deputies later found a pill bottle, which Special Operations Group Maj. Shane Daugherty said contained Xanax behind its scratched-off label.

Deputies arrested all three people involved in the suspected drug deal.

Crystal Josette Davis, 25, 104 St. Catherine St., was arrested on a charge of sale or distribution of schedule IV drugs. She was released on a bond of $1,000.

Tavonte and Tyrell White were charged with disorderly conduct for failure to comply and three charges each of simple assault on a law enforcement officer. Both of the White brothers were still in the Adams County Jail Saturday on bonds of $500.

“I’m happy it didn’t escalate further than it did,” Miles said.