Two men were arrested Wednesday night and charged with delivery of marijuana during an undercover drug bust by the Huntsville Police Department.
Brandon Kenard Carrier, 18, of New Waverly, and Ervin Melvin Major, 34, of Houston, were arrested shortly after 9 p.m. near the Gateway Apartments in the 5000 block of Sam Houston Avenue.
The arrests occurred after a drug buy was pre-arranged by undercover HPD officers.
According to Sgt. Jim Barnes of the HPD Criminal Investigations Division, HPD investigators were able to learn the names of the two men through various undercover informants, and contacted them to arrange to purchase marijuana.
Carrier and Major agreed to meet the officers at the apartment complex. The vehicles of both parties pulled up side by side and the exchange was made through the car windows. As Carrier and Major drove away HPD patrol units closed in, pulled them over, and arrested them.
An unspecified quantity of codeine was found in the vehicle, and was determined to be Major’s, leading to an additional charge of possession of a controlled substance.
The bust is one of a series the HPD has recently arranged in order to crack down on Huntsville drug dealers.
Barnes said assistance was also given by officers from the Sam Houston State University Police Department.
“One of the reasons we’ve been successful as of late in particular is the cooperation between all of the different agencies in Walker County,” Barnes said. “Us, UPD and the sheriff’s department have worked very well together to get these drugs off the streets.”
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