On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at approximately 6:00 a.m. the EPD SWAT team and officers of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Joint Task Force served a search warrant at 918 Covert Avenue that resulted in the arrest of four individuals.
The warrant was a result of a lengthy narcotics investigation where numerous controlled buys of narcotics had been made from 918 Covert. Detectives with the EVCJTF recovered heroin, methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and 8 hand guns during the search and arrests.
Arrested:
Cody Oshea Hall-Johnson – 24 years old
Levi Quincy Grant – 37 years old
Eugene Berry Maxwell – 26 years old
James Latroy Mitchell – 36 years old
Johnson was charged with maintaining a common nuisance. Grant was charged with possession of marijuana. Johnson and Grant are being held in the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center.
Maxwell and Mitchell were taken into custody and being held on federal charges.
If anyone has knowledge about these or other crimes that they may have been involved with are asked to call the Evansville Police Department at 436-7979 or the WeTip line at 1-800-78-CRIME.