3 facing drug charges after Clay County home raided

MIDDLEBURG, Fla. – Three men are facing narcotics charges aft Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook connected Thursday led a SWAT squad to a Middleburg location to execute hunt and apprehension warrants.

Just earlier daybreak, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office tactical unit, nether the absorption of Cook, raided the location connected Cosmos Avenue.

A teenage girl, who News4Jax has chosen not to identify, said the raid astatine her neighbor’s location woke her up.

“I looked retired the model and saw SWAT cars and police. I opened the doorway and I heard, ‘This is the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. Open the doorway and travel retired with your hands up,’” she said.

Her mother, who we are besides not naming, said she’s concerned.

“As a mother, we privation to support our children safe, but however bash we support them harmless successful our neighborhood,” she said.

Howard Haddock, 57, Robert Arnold, 50, and Roy Cope, 39, were each taken into custody.

Haddock is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, owning a operation known to merchantability drugs, possessing fentanyl and possessing cause equipment. He was being held successful the Clay County jailhouse connected Thursday evening, waiting to spot a justice to person bond.

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Arnold is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, selling methamphetamine and utilizing a two-way connection instrumentality to facilitate a felony. As of Thursday night, helium was being held successful the jailhouse connected $232,500 bond.

Cope is charged with possessing fentanyl, selling fentanyl, selling methamphetamine and utilizing of a two-way connection instrumentality to facilitate a felony. He was being held successful the jailhouse connected $325,000 enslaved arsenic of Thursday night.

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