City Police Make Drug Arrest At Fly Street House
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WATER VALLEY – A Water Valley man was arrested and charged with two counts of drug trafficking and one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent following a drug bust in the city last Wednesday, March 22.
Water Valley Police Chief Jason Mangrum reported Leslie Conard was taken into custody after officers went to his residence at 280 Fly Street.
“We were assisting another agency locate a subject to interview we thought was at this house,” Mangrum said.
Upon arrival around 2:30 p.m. officers detected the odor of marijuana. Conard was detained for investigation and the department obtained a search warrant and returned to the residence several hours later. Mangrum reported officers seized 186 dosage units of ecstasy, 50 units of fentanyl pills and an estimated 18 grams of methamphetamine.
“This was a very good bust,” Mangrum told the Herald. “It’s not the biggest, but this was a very good bust to get that much pills and meth off the streets. Especially with the current state of the frequency of fentanyl overdoses.”
Conard had moved to the residence a few weeks prior to his arrest.
“He was renting the house, it appears the house had been vacant for a period of time before he moved in,” Mangrum told the Herald.
Conard was charged Friday with the three felony drug charges. Bond was set at $75,000 and he out of custody after posting bond.
In an unrelated arrest, Mangrum reported Fredricke Campbell, 42, of Water Valley was charged with DUI on Friday, March 25. The arrest stemmed from a traffic stop for speeding on Blackmur Drive. The officer smelled the odor of an intoxicating beverage and started a DUI investigation.
Campbell was initially charged with DUI – second, but the charges will be upgraded to felony due after officers determined that he had been convicted of two prior DUIs, one in the City of Water Valley and the second in the City of Oxford. Campbell was booked into the Yalobusha County Detention Center.
