Undercover operation nets two arrests
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Teamwork among the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office, District 27 District Attorney's Drug Task Force and the Gore Police Department led to two drug-related arrests in two separate unrelated investigations in Gore recently.

While conducting an undercover drug purchase from a suspect on Sept. 4, an undercover task force agent observed another person, known to be involved in the illegal drug trade, traveling from convenience store to convenience store, a practice known to be commonly used by people gathering ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine. The undercover agent also observed that there was no tag displayed on the subject's vehicle and he alerted Gore Police about the vehicle.

Gore Police officers then made a traffic stop on the person, identified as Dana Webb, for having no tag displayed on the vehicle. As a result of the traffic stop, items commonly used in the manufacture of methamphetamine were found in Webb's vehicle, agents reported. Sequoyah County Sheriff's investigators also reported that substances appearing to be methamphetamine, along with items of paraphernalia commonly associated with the use of controlled dangerous substances, were found in Webb's vehicle.

Webb, 36, of Sallisaw was booked into the Sequoyah County Jail in Sallisaw on charges of endeavoring to manufacture a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Jail records indicate that Webb has previous felony convictions.

Raymond Hall of Gore was also arrested as a result of the undercover investigation.

Hall, 19, was booked into the county jail on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession of a controlled dangerous substance within 1,000 feet of a park, carrying a prohibited weapon, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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