Drug suspect arrested as part of roundup

A Ruston man was arrested by narcotics agents on May 2 as part of an ongoing roundup of one drug suspects.

Jerriel Jones, 44, was arrested on warrants charging him with distribution of methamphetamine and violation of the drug free zone statute.


Jones was arrested at a Timber Ridge Circle residence after officers breached the door to locate him when their efforts to talk him out of the house failed.

Jones was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center on the two drug warrants and three unspecified warrants from Ruston City Court.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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