UNDERCOVER BUYS NET FIVE ARRESTS

FIVE MEN FACE MULTIPLE DRUG CHARGES FOLLOWING TWO UNDERCOVER STING OPERATIONS MONDAY AFTERNOON.  CHARLOTTE COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY THE FIRST BUY WAS IN CHARLOTTE HARBOR WHERE 43 YEAR OLD WILLIE JOHNSON OF PUNTA GORDA AND 39 YEAR OLD DOUGLAS KEEVIS OF PORT CHARLOTTE EXCHANGED CRACK COCAINE FOR $200.  THE SECOND DEAL WAS IN THE CLEVELAND AREA EAST OF PUNTA GORDA WHERE 22 YEAR OLD JEREMY EUBANKS, 23 YEAR OLD JEREMY PETERS AND 18 YEAR OLD GABRIEL FOSTER, ALL OF PORT CHARLOTTE, WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER EXCHANGING DRUGS FOR $200 CASH.  ALL FIVE MEN WERE CHARGED WITH TWO FELONY COUNTS OF SALE AND DELIVERY OF CRACK COCAINE AND POSSESSION OF CRACK COCAINE.  FOSTER WAS ADDITIONALLY CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA FOR HAVING THREE CRACK PIPES IN HIS POSSESSION.  PETERS IS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE BONDED OUT SO FAR, AND EUBANKS IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND SINCE HE IS A CONVICTED FELON WITH 26 BOOKINGS INTO THE CHARLOTTE COUNTY JAIL.