52 arrested in Lee County on drug charges in ‘Operation Double Booked’

Reporter: Gail Levy
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More than 50 people were arrested in Lee County on drug charges.

More than 30 of those suspects went in front of a judge on Wednesday for their first appearing hearings. It took a judge nearly three hours to read through their charges.

On Thursday, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno held a news conference to announce the 52 arrests as part of Operation Double Booked.

Marceno said more than a kilo of cocaine, a kilo of meth, and a half-kilo of fentanyl worth more than $100,000 were taken off the streets.

“Several more warrants are outstanding for those who have left the area and are hiding from law enforcement,” he said.

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