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??Major drug dealer?? taken down in La Marque raid
By T.J. Aulds
The Daily News
Published February 21, 2010
LA MARQUE ?? A man La Marque police said was one of the city??s ??major drug dealers? was arrested during an early morning raid Saturday, Chief Randall Aragon said.
The bust netted an unspecified amount of narcotics and a weapons cache, police said.
Kevin Germane Britton, 33, was arrested at his home in the 100 block of Porter Street in La Marque about 4 a.m. He was charged with manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance as well as an outstanding Harris County warrant for deadly conduct, Aragon said. He was being held in the county jail on bonds totaling $15,000.
A 48-year-old man at the house also was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor drug charge, police said.
Police did not reveal how much in narcotics were found during the raid, but Britton??s booking sheet showed his charge was for less than 1 gram of narcotics.
Aragon said the house where the raid happened had become a drug-selling hot spot. It is possible the department will move to have the house confiscated as part of a new aggressive narcotics enforcement effort Aragon launched when he took over as chief in December.
The La Marque police were assisted by League City, Dickinson, Alvin, Pearland and Baytown police, the Galveston County Sheriff??s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the investigation and subsequent early morning raid.
Aragon said other charges were forthcoming.
??As mentioned in earlier announcements relating to La Marque??s tough-on-crime effort, such criminal business as usual has ended in La Marque,? Aragon said.
??Along with such uncompromising crime control strategies such as these highly planned and skillful operations, La Marque has introduced a community-oriented policing effort both of which have the ultimate goal of taking back our streets from the criminal element.?
