Three Hot Springs men arrested on multiple drug, firearm charges
Three Hot Springs men were arrested Monday after Hot Springs police executed a search warrant on a local residence and reportedly located drugs and firearms.
Jesse James Perdue, 23, of 109 Boaz St., James Thomas Everett, 30, who listed a Dandelion Street address, and Eric Anthony Morrison, 27, who listed a Highland Road address, were taken into custody at Perdue’s residence at 2 p.m. and each charged with felony counts of simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, punishable by up to life in prison, unauthorized use of another person’s property to facilitate a crime, punishable by up to 20 years, possession of a schedule VI controlled substance with purpose to deliver, punishable by up to 10 years, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal use of a prohibited weapon, each punishable by up to six years, and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia, punishable by up to one year in jail.
They all remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of zero bond and are set to appear in Garland County District Court on April 11.
According to the affidavit, Investigator J jesus Anaya, members of the HSPD’s Special Investigation Division Narcotics Unit and the SWAT team served a search warrant at the Boaz Street residence. Morrison allegedly dropped a 1.09 ounce bag of marijuana when the officers arrived.
Investigators reportedly found two 9-mm handguns, $2,202 in cash and 5.62 ounces of marijuana divided into six clear bags inside a 1999 Honda Civic parked in the driveway of the residence.
Inside the residence, investigators allegedly located five glass marijuana smoking pipes, two glass marijuana smoking bongs, a metal grinder, two sets of digital scales, an ultraviolet money verification light, a handgun holster, a sawed-off .410-gauge pump action shotgun, 1.97 ounces of marijuana, five large empty zipper-type plastic bags containing marijuana residue, one used syringe and a note indicating to hold 1 gram for “Alvin.”
In a small nonfunctioning car behind the residence, investigators also found multiple small baggies inside a small ice chest.