WINSLOW – Detectives from Navajo County’s Operation Clean Communities Sheriff’s Office were busy arresting seven suspected drug dealers last week.
They also confiscated a firearm that the Phoenix police reported stolen in 1984.
On June 7th, detectives with the NCSO Major Crimes Appreciation Team on Kinsey Avenue in Winslow stopped Danny Bourque Jr., 22, of Winslow, whereupon they discovered he was wanted and arrested with a warrant.
At the same time, they allegedly found a single pill labeled M30 for fentanyl in Bourque’s possession.
As part of the ongoing Operation Clean Communities, in which the NCSO is actively involved, detectives had information that Bourque allegedly sold narcotics in the Winslow area and tracked that information by obtaining a search warrant for Bourque’s residence.
In it, they allegedly found another 111 fentanyl pills along with the firearm reported by the PPD.
At the time, detectives arrested Bourque on two narcotics possession cases, two drug paraphernalia possession, one narcotics-for-sale possession, and omission warrant.
Matthew Joseph Jacot, 26, and Melissa Lynn Yonnie, 25, both from Winslow, were arrested for possession of narcotics and dangerous drug paraphernalia.
All three were booked into the Holbrook County Jail.
On June 8, detectives from MCAT Operation Clean Communities reportedly witnessed a drug deal in Winslow that resulted in a traffic stop and then a warrant for an apartment on Third Street where detectives allegedly found 1.17 pounds of meth and 56 fentanyl pills marked M30 and found a firearm.
In this bust, detectives arrested Tyro Vernon King, 40, Bernice Yolanda Jaramillo, 53, Joseph Michael Lomeli, 59, and Marisa L. King, 36, all of Winslow on various charges of possession and sale of dangerous drugs.
Marisa King and Lomeli were also charged with child endangerment because police reportedly had a 6-year-old boy with drugs within his reach in the house.
To date, efforts by the NCSO Operation Clean Communities have resulted in 31 arrests, the seizure of five weapons, the seizure of 188 fentanyl pills, 1.25 pounds of meth from the streets, and 145 milligrams of methadone.
“Since Operation Clean Communities began on May 13, 2021, MCAT, Winslow PD, Navajo County Sheriff’s Office Patrol, Navajo County Probation, Arizona Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations, and the Arizona State Gang Task Force have been working on opioid and drug sales in the City of Winslow, ”said Tori Gorman, Public Information Officer for the NCSO, in an email.
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